GENOESE GARDENS AND VILLAS. 
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400. — ORIGINAT. PLAN OF THE HOUSE AND GARDENS BEFORE THE RAILWAY 
WAS MADE IN FRONT. 
From Gauthier. 
dates from the sixteenth century, but the fayade is by A. Tagliafico (1729 -1811). The interest 
of the lay-out arises from the steepness of the hillside, which rapidly mounts up to a level 
above that of the roofs of the house by terraces, twelve or fifteen yards wide, and each an 
ascent of about twenty-four steps (Figs. 399 and 400). The long levels of the terraces, laid out 
with box-edged patterns, afford fine views, while the fountain terminations are an attractive 
massed foliage almost effaces the characteristics of the modern shipping, leaving visible only 
the vertical lines of the masts, and we may fancy we still have before us the massed galleys of 
the great admiral just as we see them in the quaint paintings of tempera on boards in the great 
saloon upstairs. 
The Villa Rosazza, formerly Dinegro, lies beyond the Doria, along the sea front, and the 
garden terraced up the hillside equally commands the quays and waters of the harbour. It 
