page_title: Walls of Genoa
section_title: Barbarossa walls
hierarchical_section_title: Walls of Genoa / Ancient walls / Barbarossa walls
caption_attribution_description: Muros de Génova (Italia)
context_page_description: The walls of Genoa constitute in their whole the several circles of walls that protected and defended the city of Genoa, former capital of the homonimous Republic. To this day, large portions of these walls remain, and Genoa has more and longer walls than any other city in Italy.
context_section_description: In 1155, this defensive wall was extended to the northwest to include the new settlements outside the walls. The walls culminated on the top of St. Andrew hill, with Porta Soprana.
  The new walls greatly expanded the area contained within, compared to the previous one, including an area of 55 hectares.
  The construction of the walls dragged until 1163; in that year, the international political situation and particularly relations with emperor Frederick Barbarossa led to an acceleration of work, as attested to by Caffaro, and the work  was completed in 53 days thanks to the effort of the entire population.
  The three main gates had a monumental look, with high semicircular towers. Two of them survive to this day: “Porta Soprana” and “Porta dei Vacca”; the third one, Porta Aurea ("Golden Gate"), already partially demolished in the 18th century, was completely demolished in the second half of the 20th century. In the 13th century, the Old Pier peninsula, at the southern limit of the port, was also included inside the walls, thus completing the fortifications on the sea side of the city.
caption: Map of the “Barbarossa walls”
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