Tempio di Diana

Tempio di Diana stands within Parco di Villa Durazzo Pallavicini as a small classical architectural scene. Its paths, vegetation and proportions form part of a romantic garden designed as a sequence of landscapes. Michele Canzio created this setting in Genoa between 1840 and 1846 for Marchese Ignazio Alessandro Pallavicini.

The park leads visitors through a theatrical progression of viali, grottos, a Chinese pagoda and a lake. This station belongs to an initiatory route that moves symbolically from Dante’s Inferno towards Paradiso. The Giardini di Flora mark another stage in that passage through imagined spaces. Diana represents nature, protection and the feminine principle within this carefully arranged garden narrative.

Historical photographs and postcards show the small structure in the early twentieth century. Stone, vegetation and directed views turn the surrounding path into a composed tableau. Pause where the route gathers your attention, and notice how myth seems to meet the landscape.