Genovese Palace

Habituated since 1621 by the Pinto family, Palazzo Genovese was donated by the last descendant of the noble family to the Teresian Fathers who, having no resources to renovate it, granted it in emphyteusis to Baron Matteo Genovese.

The building was built in the mid-18th century.

The restoration work started around the middle of the eighteenth century and was entrusted to the young architect Mario Gioffredo, one of the main exponents of eighteenth-century Neapolitan architecture, a pupil of Ferdinando Sanfelice. In fact, the stylistic solution that characterizes the wide staircase with the wall pierced by voluminous openings unmistakably recalls the architecture of Ferdinando Sanfelice in the palace of the same name in Naples, while the portal with a broken tympanum harks back to the refined Solimenesque models.

The building overlooks piazza Sedile del Campo and has a rectangular floor plan and an interior courtyard; on the entrance portal, rusticated in limestone, is placed the Genovese family coat of arms.

Until the 1980s the building functioned as an elementary school, while, after the 1980 earthquake it hosted exhibitions, conferences and festivals in rooms on the ground floor. One wing of the building is now entrusted to the University of Salerno.