Our eighth day in Genoa began with a visit to the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, or Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno. The extensive nineteenth-century cemetery contains elaborate funerary monuments and in some cases, entire buildings, dedicated to their respective families. After roaming, we ate lunch in Piazza San Lorenzo and visited the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Lawrence. The Cattedrale di San Lorenzo is not only monumental and an example of gothic architecture, the bomb fired by a British battleship into the cathedral in February of 1941 and did not explode can still be found in the cathedral. The group then split up for each student to study their own piazza for our assigned project. While on the way back to the villa, we were lucky enough to see a decorative painter at work on the outside of a building in Piazza Ferrari. While Professor Ford and some students took the usual route back to the villa, some students tested out their understanding of the bus system in the city.
