Palace of the Armatori historic apartment
Entire rental unit in Camogli, Italy
- 4 guests ·
- · 2 bedrooms ·
- · 3 beds ·
- · 1 bath
Hosted by Giovanni
- 5 years hosting
Listing highlights
Exceptional check-in experience
Recent guests gave the check-in process a 5-star rating.
Beautiful and walkable
This area is scenic and easy to get around.
Ocean and beach views
Soak up the views during your stay.
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Family apartment in a prestigious building in the charming seaside village of Camogli, in full sun, 180° sea view of the Gulf and with a beautiful garden.
You will be welcomed as if at home for short or long stays in any season: 130 sqm, 5 rooms, double and twin bedroom, living room. The large and airy spaces have period furnishings and original fine finishes from the 1800s: frescoes, marble, terracotta floors, fireplace...
Elegant and convenient for everything, above the Piazzetta.
CIN Code IT010007C2G7OXYBSS
The space
The apartment is on the 2nd floor, equipped with a small elevator, located in the most elegant building of the building built in 1870 by the richest Camelian citizens, for their representative houses. It consists of 5 large rooms: a double living room with a fireplace and a communicating dining room; a double bedroom, a double bedroom; a bathroom with a bidet, a shower and a semi-bedroom; a spacious, equipped kitchen.
It is a valuable guesthouse - an ancient property of Garibaldini owners - with a reserved and quiet environment, secluded but located in the immediate comfort of the city center.
The house is equipped with all the comforts for the stay of the Guests: independent heating and fan; clothes rack; various closets and shoe rack; adjustable shutters and curtains; flat-screen satellite TV, unlimited Wi-Fi pocket; stereo/radio and headphones.
In the bedroom there is a small desk to be used as a study corner.
The kitchen is fully equipped: a second table; tablecloths and towels; fridge-freezer, dishwasher and washing machine; complete pots, table amenities, flutes with glasses and ice sets; various utensils; oven and microwave; the teapot with electric kettle and Nescafé-DolceGusto capsule espresso machine; juicer, blender and shredder; set for recycling. And then the hair dryer, the iron with ironing board, the vacuum cleaner and the necessary for all cleaning, including general detergents for dishes, dishwasher and linens, ecological and hypoallergenic.
The Palace, identifiable from the sea even from Genoa, has a great exposure. Two of the large windows overlook the South, with sunshine from late morning to evening, and are a privileged view of the Golfo Paradiso: a superb 180° sea view that stretches from Punta Chiappa (Cape of Portofino) and - passing through Recco, Sori, Pieve...- goes up to the skyscrapers and lights of the center of Genoa, engraving the famous Lantern. On dry mornings and summer sunsets, you can also see the coast of the entire Ligurian Riviera of Ponente, with behind the Maritime Alps, or the furthest Corsica.
At your feet, on the other hand, you will see the lush gardens of the Palace - in their kind - and, just beyond, the Piazzetta di Camogli with its soaring maritime pine, the main street with all services and access to the Passeggiata a Mare between the houses of the village, towards the island, collected around the church of the Assumption and the characteristic Ligurian harbor.
The location of the building is no small feat: the large beach along the Paseo a Mare can be reached in a few minutes, even with two comfortable free public elevators that avoid the stairs. The center, with all its amenities, is immediately under our residence.
The interior finishes are respectful, from the atrium of the condominium: each ceiling, 4 meters high, is frescoed with refined decorations that refer to the masonry and the arts, the fixtures are all original while the double door is carved with the heraldry. The floors, on the other hand, are original terracotta brick floors from the 1870s and, in each room, draw different colorful geometries that frame a vintage decor, deliberately true to the rooms and history of the Palace.
In the living room stands out a unique piece, jewel of thisapartment: it is a fine fireplace [not working] carved in Portoro marble, a Ligurian marble extracted in the now exhausted quarries of Portovenere (SP) required, at the time of the Baroque, in Vérsaillés and in the European courts, by way of the rich golden strip on a black background.
Our apartment is perfect for both winter and summer: for a beach vacation, as a base to visit Genoa and the Italian Riviera of Portofino or for mild winter stays in workation. It will allow you to experience the village of Camogli authentically!
In the hot season, the double air and the view of the gardens or side gardens almost always guarantee the pleasant airiness of the rooms and a cool evening breeze.
In winter, on the other hand, the rooms remain warm and bright and are still enjoyable; above all, the Riviera climate allows you to enjoy the warmth of the sun in our small private garden - curated periodically by a gardener - characterized by Mediterranean scrub with fatty and aromatic plants, hydrangeas, lemons and under a cool pergola. There is a drinking water tap with the barrel, for a possible outdoor shower, and a coffee table with its 2 chairs is provided.
Guest access
▪Ю PARKING
→ Our property does not have parking.
As soon as you enter Via Bozzo and arrive in front of the gate of the Palace (number 30) you can download and obtain better information from the host about the parking available.
On our street you can't park since the few spaces are "yellow", that is, reserved for resident residents.
Do not hesitate to ask for information even at the time of booking, the host will already be able to provide you with a map (indicative) of the white parking usually available in the City.
Parking in the city is quite difficult, even more so in the summer season: remember that the "yellow" lines indicate an area exclusively reserved for residents, while the central streets are inaccessible to cars.
Parking - and often "blue", for a fee - can take place on Camogli's free driveways. The following places are recommended:
1) going up the Via Bettolo and turning in Corso Mazzini (dir. Route/Rapallo), sometimes you can also find some free parking among the trees to the right of the road, up to the church of Boschetto and beyond, in Via Figari. To return home, you can take the typical creüza (paved pedestrian street) of Via S. Giovanni Bono or the paved descent of Via Risso, or the Scalinata Gente di Mare. In about 5 minutes you will reach our street and the Palace.
2) Also in Corso Mazzini (having as a point of reference the access roundabout to the City), but in the direction of Recco you can find a few rows of free white parking available: to return home, just go down the Ansaldo Staircase briefly and you will be at the bottom of Via Bozzo, just behind our Palace.
3) A more rare, but comfortable alternative can be in the Piazzale del Teatro (Piazza Matteotti), and in the "former airport" area for a fee; also a short distance from the Fs Station in Via Cuneo or in Via Colombo, reachable by two comfortable openh24 free public elevators connected to our street.
4) in via G.B. Ferrari at the entrance of the Paseo a Mare there is the "blue" municipal parking for a fee between 8-22.
5) An additional large municipal parking for a fee is located at the entrance of the City in the Migliaro area (at the Gulliver supermarket).
6) Finally, a paid parking lot is located on Viale Molfino, before the town of San Rocco di Camogli, located at a considerable distance from the apartment.
Parking in Corso Mazzini, Migliaro and on the way to the Camogli Route -fino to SS1 Aurelia or the San Rocco park- can also be reached by city shuttle bus time (line 773 or 973).
Other things to note
~ WEEKLY/BIWEEKLY OR MONTHLY STAYS with SPECIAL OFFER ONLY!
REQUEST INFO FOR SEASONAL STAYS (ordinary transitional contract).
→ In the long stays, the expenses for electricity and gas-heating utilities are borne by the guest, according to their consumption or with a fee to be anticipated.
MONTHLY FIXED PRICE LIST [max. 30 days], excluding cleaning fees, Airbnb surcharges and services:
*2026*
•November and February= €1330
•December and January= €1500
•March= €1800
•April= €2300
•May= €2700
•June= €3000
•July= €3500
•August= €3900
•September= €3200
•October= €2200
▪ю Supplies:
→ The management offers guests sets of towels and bed linens only for short stays (< 7 days).
Linens are also provided for replacement in longer stays, with a surcharge.
→ Four beach towels are available upon request for the beach with a supplement of €7/towel.
→ They are provided: blankets, bedspreads, quilts, synthetic duvets, pillow covers; towels and aprons in the kitchen.
→ The spare parts of the toiletries for the toilet cannot be provided.
▪ю During your stay:
→ The Palace, like all the ones on our street and many others in Camogli, overlooks the railway: the noise of trains in transit, if at sustained speed, could be a nuisance in the double room (if with the windows open), usually no later than 24 hours.
→ You can contact the Host for a trusted and exclusive cleaning service, for a fee from the guest during their stay.
The management takes care of the cleaning before each stay while at checkout a minimum accommodation of the house is required for guests.
→ PET FRIENDLY GUESTHOUSE: Pet accommodation (max. no. 2, well-behaved) is authorized, upon request, with a separate surcharge. Only small/medium sized breeds are allowed.
A bowl, small kennel, bags, and a spray is provided for in the street, requested by the Municipality of Camogli.
The garden is not available for animals.
▪ю Check-in, checkout and returns:
→ Once the reservation is confirmed, guests will be able to see the check-in method communicated by the Host: guests are kindly asked to observe the section on house rules, the lease agreement to be completed and signed, on the registration of documents for P.S. obligations and how to check in, including the delay penalty.
→ When guests check out on their own, the Host sends all necessary communications in the previous days.
→ Objects forgotten by guests are kept no more than 7 days from checkout; for reasons of hygiene and cleanliness, this term may not be observed. Returns will be sent, only upon request, no earlier than 15 days with an operation organized by the guest at their expense.
▪ю Supplements and penalties:
a) pet= €40/pet.
b) supply upon request of linen+spare part (for long stays)= €12/person
c) penalty for so-called late check-in= €40
d) loss of keys, beach towels or TV remote control = 30€
e) missing washing sheets (only in long stays)= €80
~ TOURIST TAX
The City Council of the City of Camogli - with Regulations approved by Italian Code Resolution No. 96/2017 - has established the payment of a Accommodation Tax for non-residents staying in hotel and non-hotel accommodation facilities.
The amount has a maximum of €30 per person divided into €3 each for the first 7 nights of accommodation only, except for the exemptions of art. 4 of the aforementioned Regulation, of which the Host informs guests in order to draft self-certification requests.
The guest therefore gives the Host, in cash, the amount calculated on the basis of the municipal rates, no later than the delivery of the keys.
Registration Details
IT010007C2G7OXYBSS
You will be welcomed as if at home for short or long stays in any season: 130 sqm, 5 rooms, double and twin bedroom, living room. The large and airy spaces have period furnishings and original fine finishes from the 1800s: frescoes, marble, terracotta floors, fireplace...
Elegant and convenient for everything, above the Piazzetta.
CIN Code IT010007C2G7OXYBSS
The space
The apartment is on the 2nd floor, equipped with a small elevator, located in the most elegant building of the building built in 1870 by the richest Camelian citizens, for their representative houses. It consists of 5 large rooms: a double living room with a fireplace and a communicating dining room; a double bedroom, a double bedroom; a bathroom with a bidet, a shower and a semi-bedroom; a spacious, equipped kitchen.
It is a valuable guesthouse - an ancient property of Garibaldini owners - with a reserved and quiet environment, secluded but located in the immediate comfort of the city center.
The house is equipped with all the comforts for the stay of the Guests: independent heating and fan; clothes rack; various closets and shoe rack; adjustable shutters and curtains; flat-screen satellite TV, unlimited Wi-Fi pocket; stereo/radio and headphones.
In the bedroom there is a small desk to be used as a study corner.
The kitchen is fully equipped: a second table; tablecloths and towels; fridge-freezer, dishwasher and washing machine; complete pots, table amenities, flutes with glasses and ice sets; various utensils; oven and microwave; the teapot with electric kettle and Nescafé-DolceGusto capsule espresso machine; juicer, blender and shredder; set for recycling. And then the hair dryer, the iron with ironing board, the vacuum cleaner and the necessary for all cleaning, including general detergents for dishes, dishwasher and linens, ecological and hypoallergenic.
The Palace, identifiable from the sea even from Genoa, has a great exposure. Two of the large windows overlook the South, with sunshine from late morning to evening, and are a privileged view of the Golfo Paradiso: a superb 180° sea view that stretches from Punta Chiappa (Cape of Portofino) and - passing through Recco, Sori, Pieve...- goes up to the skyscrapers and lights of the center of Genoa, engraving the famous Lantern. On dry mornings and summer sunsets, you can also see the coast of the entire Ligurian Riviera of Ponente, with behind the Maritime Alps, or the furthest Corsica.
At your feet, on the other hand, you will see the lush gardens of the Palace - in their kind - and, just beyond, the Piazzetta di Camogli with its soaring maritime pine, the main street with all services and access to the Passeggiata a Mare between the houses of the village, towards the island, collected around the church of the Assumption and the characteristic Ligurian harbor.
The location of the building is no small feat: the large beach along the Paseo a Mare can be reached in a few minutes, even with two comfortable free public elevators that avoid the stairs. The center, with all its amenities, is immediately under our residence.
The interior finishes are respectful, from the atrium of the condominium: each ceiling, 4 meters high, is frescoed with refined decorations that refer to the masonry and the arts, the fixtures are all original while the double door is carved with the heraldry. The floors, on the other hand, are original terracotta brick floors from the 1870s and, in each room, draw different colorful geometries that frame a vintage decor, deliberately true to the rooms and history of the Palace.
In the living room stands out a unique piece, jewel of thisapartment: it is a fine fireplace [not working] carved in Portoro marble, a Ligurian marble extracted in the now exhausted quarries of Portovenere (SP) required, at the time of the Baroque, in Vérsaillés and in the European courts, by way of the rich golden strip on a black background.
Our apartment is perfect for both winter and summer: for a beach vacation, as a base to visit Genoa and the Italian Riviera of Portofino or for mild winter stays in workation. It will allow you to experience the village of Camogli authentically!
In the hot season, the double air and the view of the gardens or side gardens almost always guarantee the pleasant airiness of the rooms and a cool evening breeze.
In winter, on the other hand, the rooms remain warm and bright and are still enjoyable; above all, the Riviera climate allows you to enjoy the warmth of the sun in our small private garden - curated periodically by a gardener - characterized by Mediterranean scrub with fatty and aromatic plants, hydrangeas, lemons and under a cool pergola. There is a drinking water tap with the barrel, for a possible outdoor shower, and a coffee table with its 2 chairs is provided.
Guest access
▪Ю PARKING
→ Our property does not have parking.
As soon as you enter Via Bozzo and arrive in front of the gate of the Palace (number 30) you can download and obtain better information from the host about the parking available.
On our street you can't park since the few spaces are "yellow", that is, reserved for resident residents.
Do not hesitate to ask for information even at the time of booking, the host will already be able to provide you with a map (indicative) of the white parking usually available in the City.
Parking in the city is quite difficult, even more so in the summer season: remember that the "yellow" lines indicate an area exclusively reserved for residents, while the central streets are inaccessible to cars.
Parking - and often "blue", for a fee - can take place on Camogli's free driveways. The following places are recommended:
1) going up the Via Bettolo and turning in Corso Mazzini (dir. Route/Rapallo), sometimes you can also find some free parking among the trees to the right of the road, up to the church of Boschetto and beyond, in Via Figari. To return home, you can take the typical creüza (paved pedestrian street) of Via S. Giovanni Bono or the paved descent of Via Risso, or the Scalinata Gente di Mare. In about 5 minutes you will reach our street and the Palace.
2) Also in Corso Mazzini (having as a point of reference the access roundabout to the City), but in the direction of Recco you can find a few rows of free white parking available: to return home, just go down the Ansaldo Staircase briefly and you will be at the bottom of Via Bozzo, just behind our Palace.
3) A more rare, but comfortable alternative can be in the Piazzale del Teatro (Piazza Matteotti), and in the "former airport" area for a fee; also a short distance from the Fs Station in Via Cuneo or in Via Colombo, reachable by two comfortable openh24 free public elevators connected to our street.
4) in via G.B. Ferrari at the entrance of the Paseo a Mare there is the "blue" municipal parking for a fee between 8-22.
5) An additional large municipal parking for a fee is located at the entrance of the City in the Migliaro area (at the Gulliver supermarket).
6) Finally, a paid parking lot is located on Viale Molfino, before the town of San Rocco di Camogli, located at a considerable distance from the apartment.
Parking in Corso Mazzini, Migliaro and on the way to the Camogli Route -fino to SS1 Aurelia or the San Rocco park- can also be reached by city shuttle bus time (line 773 or 973).
Other things to note
~ WEEKLY/BIWEEKLY OR MONTHLY STAYS with SPECIAL OFFER ONLY!
REQUEST INFO FOR SEASONAL STAYS (ordinary transitional contract).
→ In the long stays, the expenses for electricity and gas-heating utilities are borne by the guest, according to their consumption or with a fee to be anticipated.
MONTHLY FIXED PRICE LIST [max. 30 days], excluding cleaning fees, Airbnb surcharges and services:
*2026*
•November and February= €1330
•December and January= €1500
•March= €1800
•April= €2300
•May= €2700
•June= €3000
•July= €3500
•August= €3900
•September= €3200
•October= €2200
▪ю Supplies:
→ The management offers guests sets of towels and bed linens only for short stays (< 7 days).
Linens are also provided for replacement in longer stays, with a surcharge.
→ Four beach towels are available upon request for the beach with a supplement of €7/towel.
→ They are provided: blankets, bedspreads, quilts, synthetic duvets, pillow covers; towels and aprons in the kitchen.
→ The spare parts of the toiletries for the toilet cannot be provided.
▪ю During your stay:
→ The Palace, like all the ones on our street and many others in Camogli, overlooks the railway: the noise of trains in transit, if at sustained speed, could be a nuisance in the double room (if with the windows open), usually no later than 24 hours.
→ You can contact the Host for a trusted and exclusive cleaning service, for a fee from the guest during their stay.
The management takes care of the cleaning before each stay while at checkout a minimum accommodation of the house is required for guests.
→ PET FRIENDLY GUESTHOUSE: Pet accommodation (max. no. 2, well-behaved) is authorized, upon request, with a separate surcharge. Only small/medium sized breeds are allowed.
A bowl, small kennel, bags, and a spray is provided for in the street, requested by the Municipality of Camogli.
The garden is not available for animals.
▪ю Check-in, checkout and returns:
→ Once the reservation is confirmed, guests will be able to see the check-in method communicated by the Host: guests are kindly asked to observe the section on house rules, the lease agreement to be completed and signed, on the registration of documents for P.S. obligations and how to check in, including the delay penalty.
→ When guests check out on their own, the Host sends all necessary communications in the previous days.
→ Objects forgotten by guests are kept no more than 7 days from checkout; for reasons of hygiene and cleanliness, this term may not be observed. Returns will be sent, only upon request, no earlier than 15 days with an operation organized by the guest at their expense.
▪ю Supplements and penalties:
a) pet= €40/pet.
b) supply upon request of linen+spare part (for long stays)= €12/person
c) penalty for so-called late check-in= €40
d) loss of keys, beach towels or TV remote control = 30€
e) missing washing sheets (only in long stays)= €80
~ TOURIST TAX
The City Council of the City of Camogli - with Regulations approved by Italian Code Resolution No. 96/2017 - has established the payment of a Accommodation Tax for non-residents staying in hotel and non-hotel accommodation facilities.
The amount has a maximum of €30 per person divided into €3 each for the first 7 nights of accommodation only, except for the exemptions of art. 4 of the aforementioned Regulation, of which the Host informs guests in order to draft self-certification requests.
The guest therefore gives the Host, in cash, the amount calculated on the basis of the municipal rates, no later than the delivery of the keys.
Registration Details
IT010007C2G7OXYBSS
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Neighborhood highlights
▪ЮAMENITIES IN CAMOGLI, HOW TO FIND US AND BUILDING HISTORY
Camogli is a small town of 5,000 inhabitants equipped with every service: our apartment is located in a secluded building, but very close to the Passeggiata a Mare, the marina/ferry pier and the large pebble beach (free-equipped or in the facility), reachable in 2 minutes with a convenient ramp or with two free public elevators open 24 hours a day that avoid it, leading to the station, municipal parking lots and beaches.
The center is even closer: in Via XX Settembre and in Via della Repubblica within a few meters you can find the DORO supermarket, small but well-stocked, with butcher and gastronomy counter (it performs grocery delivery service, as well as the Gulliver supermarket in Migliaro, at the entrance of the City, coming from Recco).
In the streets of the center, near the house, there is also a tobacco shop, a newsstand, a hardware store, and every other kind of food store, banks and the post office, a florist, a stationery store, a wine shop, a phone store, a pharmacy, public assistance and a parapharmacy, the information point of the tourist office for train/bus tickets, as well as a beautician and hairdresser; the Fs station, the Teatro Sociale, the Town Hall and the Church of Boschetto. Also pleasant are the bookstores and artisan shops and the various boutiques. Finally, bars, hot boards and ice cream parlors, aperitif time lounges, burgers, taverns, restaurants and pizzerias-faccerias are all over the country: from the port dock, to the promenade and the pedestrian center where, every Wednesday, the weekly market is held.
On the sea there are also clubs and society for underwater, canoeing or sailing experiences, of fishing and whale-whatching, for the observation of dolphins and whales, visits to the Marine Protected Area of Portofino Park, towards the Punta Chiappa and the famous Christ of the Abyss of the Bay of San Fruttuoso, in the middle of the "Santuario dei Cetacei".
Finally, the lively town of Recco can also be reached with a pleasant 30-minute walk, or by car (5min. with a train every hour, and 10min. with the urban bus line 773); here you will find other services: from the outdoor pool to the tennis and soccer/soccer sports facilities, a sandy beach, the promenade, as well as countless other experiences (pe. surf and windsurfing), clubs - including the renowned restaurants that prepare the exquisite focaccia to the Recco IGP cheese and utility, such as the hospital (in Camogli there are dental, generic, eye doctors...), an automobile and the courier terminal.
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Our Palace dates back to the distant 1867-'70s, and is certainly the most prestigious of the seven similar buildings that make up the Via Bozzo, built on the embankment created to allow the construction and the subsequent doubling of the Tyrrhenian railway Rome-Genova: immediately visible for the still original pink facade, -theonly adorned with timpani, by the lesenas and bugnatures, by the risorgimental or massonic friezes that indicated the owners, under every window- but also embellished by the white wrought iron balconies, from the mezzanine floor, by local marbles and ardesias. Last but not least, the green gardens, with oranges, oleanders, olive trees, bougainvillea that are located in front of the building, beyond the imposing gate, through which the chess-floored driveway passes...a unicum in the narrow Camogli!
Our road before the construction of the late 19th century, due to the new ferrata line, was the old Graziani climb, a typical brick Ligurian "cross" that dates back to the Sanctuary of Boschetto, already out of town at the time.
Now it is dedicated to Lorenzo Bozzo, the founder and manager of the ancient "Trattoria Unica" so called because for years it was the only restaurant in the famous village of San Fruttuoso, where it still survives, with the changed name "from Giovanni".
Surely this small street, in Camogli, is as if it were Via del Corso, Via Garibaldi, Via Po, Via Tornabuoni or Via Meravigli: here at the height of the 19th and 20th century, at the moment of maximum splendor of the "city of a thousand white sailors", the rich shipowners invested what they earned from commercial maritime activities and from the freight of their boats, also armed for the Regia Marina in the Crimean War (1853) or for the French conquest of King Charles X in Algeria (1830), by constructing elegant new stairwells, already equipped with every comfort for the era and characterized by luminous environments of precious, with intagled doors, details in octones, ceramics, marble and majestic, large, high ceilings with signature vaulted, stained and relief floors, plastered pledges, polychrome plated tiles, marbles and majestic dresses in classic style.
As for the nobility, there was a competition in the construction of the best building, commissioning the frescoes to well-known artists, such as Barabino - who will be the architect of the neoclassical urban reordering for the Municipality of Genoa - so as to indicate a social status, certainly radically different from that of the narrow houses of fishermen, more typically Ligurian.
Since these are investments, the owners adopted the so-called carat (a form of co-ownership typical of boats), common in their shipowners' activities, for ships: it was divided into 24 parts, in the carat, as if they were actions to mitigate the risks of navigation, have more participations and share expenses. However, this was not a normal communion as the individual Caratista had fewer powers than the owner and, in fact, it had become a common practice, and rather modern, that of opening investments in companies with other owners of the city, but also to the sailors' employees - both in the brigantines and in the apartments - so that, sometimes, they could be paid with the carat and the consequent income, to be left to the family, instead of with the sailor's salary.
The owner who decided to build our building was a multi-decorated Camogliese sea captain, the Cav. Giovanni Razetto (1823-1896): first simple navigator, then wealthy merchant and among the most skilled camoglini owners; despite being also Commander of the Crown, he was usually nicknamed Poixettö, the name with which our Palace was indicated.
He was a prominent patriot in the important Ligurian area: he was acquainted with the Bixio family of Genoa, the Rubattino and the young bishop of the Mille, the fellow citizen Simone Schiaffino to whom the Piazzetta di Camogli is dedicated.
But he was also an intimate friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi himself, who he probably met during trades and youth trips in Latin America: to tie him to the General were, even more than political ideals, the sharing of the bond by brothers of that Freemasonry that is often recalled in the decorations of the entire building. On the ground floor, in the back, a room (private) among the cellars was the meeting room of the so-called "massün" of Camogli, decorated in the vault with the fresco of the stars, symbol of the lodges.
But, after all, the relations of the heroic leader with Camogli are even stronger: after the studies at the Nautical Academy in Genoa and the first trips, he will assume his first command in Constantinople, right on a sailboat launched in the famous construction sites of the city, the "N. S. delle Grazie", armed by the Casabona di Camogli, where first the Hero goes up as a simple writer. The first command is always a very important stop for every man on the sea and in Garibaldi, symbolically, he always reminded us of our village, which he defined as a "model village", as it was, at thattime, because of the socio-economic and cultural development created thanks to the entrepreneurial capacity of its inhabitants, the well-known blindness and the foresight of the Administration.
It was, thus, natural to stay there and maintain, on several occasions, contacts with the Mayor and the notable citizens, each with a small role in the events that led to Italian unification. And among these, the Poixettö stands out, with which many letters (one is preserved, along with other memorabilia, at the Gio Bono Ferrari Civic Museum) testify to us a very close relationship of devotion.
Razetto, in fact, like most of Camogli's maritime ruling class, was progressive and liberal: as a fervent Unionist Republican, he is among the secure financiers of the Expedition of the Thousand who, not everyone knows, after the departure from Quarto al Mare on May 5, 1860, stopped, with the "Piedmont" and the "Lombardo", right in front of the coasts of Camogli for the necessary supplies to depart to the Argentario.
But it is above all in the old age that we have the testimonies of the relationship between the owner and the Hero of the Two Worlds: the Cavalier Giovanni gave the General the co-ownership (2 carats) of a brigantine named in his honor "Dittatore Garibaldi", to guarantee him a fixed income. On this, the Poixettö wanted to be inserted, as a pollen, a Garibaldino bust with the typical beard, the red shirt of the Thousand and a striped sword; it was so that, under the best Camoglian captains, sailed for a long time between the Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, the North Sea and the Black Sea. The basin was launched in the Autumn of 1861, just when - after the union of the Kingdom with the Noon of the Peninsula - the General withdrew in Caprera, in his modest exile, but it was especially in 1862, after the missed expedition to Rome, the wounding in Aspromonte, the convalescence and the arrest at the barracks, in the bosom of the Varignano (SP), that the rent was vital for the Heroe Nizzardo and his wife Francesca Armosino, so much to write to Razetto:"My dear Capitano, as you have done for my family, deserves my greater gratitude and I will remember it for all life".
Immediately after this troubled period, it is just towards the rugged Sardinian island that, then, a cordial epistular friendship was established with which, in addition to the management of the common business, regular exchange of news, gifts and mutual thanks: there are reports of envelopes of primizie cultivated on the bands of the two Ligurian Riviera, biscuits of the Lagaccio and pandolce, coffee, stoccafisso, pasta and cookies, the genóise, and again, dried mushrooms and anchovies in salt, or -the remembling - artichokes, lambs and Sardinian goats.
In short, spending a few days in our historic apartment, in that same noble Palace where, in 1874, it seems that, in 1874, stayed as a guest Garibaldi in person, in addition to other illustrious protagonists of the Risorgimento, makes us breathe the splendors of our ancient homeland history in the National Unity.
Camogli is a small town of 5,000 inhabitants equipped with every service: our apartment is located in a secluded building, but very close to the Passeggiata a Mare, the marina/ferry pier and the large pebble beach (free-equipped or in the facility), reachable in 2 minutes with a convenient ramp or with two free public elevators open 24 hours a day that avoid it, leading to the station, municipal parking lots and beaches.
The center is even closer: in Via XX Settembre and in Via della Repubblica within a few meters you can find the DORO supermarket, small but well-stocked, with butcher and gastronomy counter (it performs grocery delivery service, as well as the Gulliver supermarket in Migliaro, at the entrance of the City, coming from Recco).
In the streets of the center, near the house, there is also a tobacco shop, a newsstand, a hardware store, and every other kind of food store, banks and the post office, a florist, a stationery store, a wine shop, a phone store, a pharmacy, public assistance and a parapharmacy, the information point of the tourist office for train/bus tickets, as well as a beautician and hairdresser; the Fs station, the Teatro Sociale, the Town Hall and the Church of Boschetto. Also pleasant are the bookstores and artisan shops and the various boutiques. Finally, bars, hot boards and ice cream parlors, aperitif time lounges, burgers, taverns, restaurants and pizzerias-faccerias are all over the country: from the port dock, to the promenade and the pedestrian center where, every Wednesday, the weekly market is held.
On the sea there are also clubs and society for underwater, canoeing or sailing experiences, of fishing and whale-whatching, for the observation of dolphins and whales, visits to the Marine Protected Area of Portofino Park, towards the Punta Chiappa and the famous Christ of the Abyss of the Bay of San Fruttuoso, in the middle of the "Santuario dei Cetacei".
Finally, the lively town of Recco can also be reached with a pleasant 30-minute walk, or by car (5min. with a train every hour, and 10min. with the urban bus line 773); here you will find other services: from the outdoor pool to the tennis and soccer/soccer sports facilities, a sandy beach, the promenade, as well as countless other experiences (pe. surf and windsurfing), clubs - including the renowned restaurants that prepare the exquisite focaccia to the Recco IGP cheese and utility, such as the hospital (in Camogli there are dental, generic, eye doctors...), an automobile and the courier terminal.
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Our Palace dates back to the distant 1867-'70s, and is certainly the most prestigious of the seven similar buildings that make up the Via Bozzo, built on the embankment created to allow the construction and the subsequent doubling of the Tyrrhenian railway Rome-Genova: immediately visible for the still original pink facade, -theonly adorned with timpani, by the lesenas and bugnatures, by the risorgimental or massonic friezes that indicated the owners, under every window- but also embellished by the white wrought iron balconies, from the mezzanine floor, by local marbles and ardesias. Last but not least, the green gardens, with oranges, oleanders, olive trees, bougainvillea that are located in front of the building, beyond the imposing gate, through which the chess-floored driveway passes...a unicum in the narrow Camogli!
Our road before the construction of the late 19th century, due to the new ferrata line, was the old Graziani climb, a typical brick Ligurian "cross" that dates back to the Sanctuary of Boschetto, already out of town at the time.
Now it is dedicated to Lorenzo Bozzo, the founder and manager of the ancient "Trattoria Unica" so called because for years it was the only restaurant in the famous village of San Fruttuoso, where it still survives, with the changed name "from Giovanni".
Surely this small street, in Camogli, is as if it were Via del Corso, Via Garibaldi, Via Po, Via Tornabuoni or Via Meravigli: here at the height of the 19th and 20th century, at the moment of maximum splendor of the "city of a thousand white sailors", the rich shipowners invested what they earned from commercial maritime activities and from the freight of their boats, also armed for the Regia Marina in the Crimean War (1853) or for the French conquest of King Charles X in Algeria (1830), by constructing elegant new stairwells, already equipped with every comfort for the era and characterized by luminous environments of precious, with intagled doors, details in octones, ceramics, marble and majestic, large, high ceilings with signature vaulted, stained and relief floors, plastered pledges, polychrome plated tiles, marbles and majestic dresses in classic style.
As for the nobility, there was a competition in the construction of the best building, commissioning the frescoes to well-known artists, such as Barabino - who will be the architect of the neoclassical urban reordering for the Municipality of Genoa - so as to indicate a social status, certainly radically different from that of the narrow houses of fishermen, more typically Ligurian.
Since these are investments, the owners adopted the so-called carat (a form of co-ownership typical of boats), common in their shipowners' activities, for ships: it was divided into 24 parts, in the carat, as if they were actions to mitigate the risks of navigation, have more participations and share expenses. However, this was not a normal communion as the individual Caratista had fewer powers than the owner and, in fact, it had become a common practice, and rather modern, that of opening investments in companies with other owners of the city, but also to the sailors' employees - both in the brigantines and in the apartments - so that, sometimes, they could be paid with the carat and the consequent income, to be left to the family, instead of with the sailor's salary.
The owner who decided to build our building was a multi-decorated Camogliese sea captain, the Cav. Giovanni Razetto (1823-1896): first simple navigator, then wealthy merchant and among the most skilled camoglini owners; despite being also Commander of the Crown, he was usually nicknamed Poixettö, the name with which our Palace was indicated.
He was a prominent patriot in the important Ligurian area: he was acquainted with the Bixio family of Genoa, the Rubattino and the young bishop of the Mille, the fellow citizen Simone Schiaffino to whom the Piazzetta di Camogli is dedicated.
But he was also an intimate friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi himself, who he probably met during trades and youth trips in Latin America: to tie him to the General were, even more than political ideals, the sharing of the bond by brothers of that Freemasonry that is often recalled in the decorations of the entire building. On the ground floor, in the back, a room (private) among the cellars was the meeting room of the so-called "massün" of Camogli, decorated in the vault with the fresco of the stars, symbol of the lodges.
But, after all, the relations of the heroic leader with Camogli are even stronger: after the studies at the Nautical Academy in Genoa and the first trips, he will assume his first command in Constantinople, right on a sailboat launched in the famous construction sites of the city, the "N. S. delle Grazie", armed by the Casabona di Camogli, where first the Hero goes up as a simple writer. The first command is always a very important stop for every man on the sea and in Garibaldi, symbolically, he always reminded us of our village, which he defined as a "model village", as it was, at thattime, because of the socio-economic and cultural development created thanks to the entrepreneurial capacity of its inhabitants, the well-known blindness and the foresight of the Administration.
It was, thus, natural to stay there and maintain, on several occasions, contacts with the Mayor and the notable citizens, each with a small role in the events that led to Italian unification. And among these, the Poixettö stands out, with which many letters (one is preserved, along with other memorabilia, at the Gio Bono Ferrari Civic Museum) testify to us a very close relationship of devotion.
Razetto, in fact, like most of Camogli's maritime ruling class, was progressive and liberal: as a fervent Unionist Republican, he is among the secure financiers of the Expedition of the Thousand who, not everyone knows, after the departure from Quarto al Mare on May 5, 1860, stopped, with the "Piedmont" and the "Lombardo", right in front of the coasts of Camogli for the necessary supplies to depart to the Argentario.
But it is above all in the old age that we have the testimonies of the relationship between the owner and the Hero of the Two Worlds: the Cavalier Giovanni gave the General the co-ownership (2 carats) of a brigantine named in his honor "Dittatore Garibaldi", to guarantee him a fixed income. On this, the Poixettö wanted to be inserted, as a pollen, a Garibaldino bust with the typical beard, the red shirt of the Thousand and a striped sword; it was so that, under the best Camoglian captains, sailed for a long time between the Cape of Good Hope, Gibraltar, the North Sea and the Black Sea. The basin was launched in the Autumn of 1861, just when - after the union of the Kingdom with the Noon of the Peninsula - the General withdrew in Caprera, in his modest exile, but it was especially in 1862, after the missed expedition to Rome, the wounding in Aspromonte, the convalescence and the arrest at the barracks, in the bosom of the Varignano (SP), that the rent was vital for the Heroe Nizzardo and his wife Francesca Armosino, so much to write to Razetto:"My dear Capitano, as you have done for my family, deserves my greater gratitude and I will remember it for all life".
Immediately after this troubled period, it is just towards the rugged Sardinian island that, then, a cordial epistular friendship was established with which, in addition to the management of the common business, regular exchange of news, gifts and mutual thanks: there are reports of envelopes of primizie cultivated on the bands of the two Ligurian Riviera, biscuits of the Lagaccio and pandolce, coffee, stoccafisso, pasta and cookies, the genóise, and again, dried mushrooms and anchovies in salt, or -the remembling - artichokes, lambs and Sardinian goats.
In short, spending a few days in our historic apartment, in that same noble Palace where, in 1874, it seems that, in 1874, stayed as a guest Garibaldi in person, in addition to other illustrious protagonists of the Risorgimento, makes us breathe the splendors of our ancient homeland history in the National Unity.
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