One of the most hidden, evocative and enchanting places in Genoa, secluded and silent, surrounded by high-rise, narrow and colourful houses. An intimate and cosy corner, where time seems to have stopped.

Before the coloured houses appeared, the area was already used from 1039 onwards to bury foreign prisoners.

It is said that in 1284, after the Battle of Meloria against Pisa, the bodies of thousands of captured Pisan sailors were interred here, and it was only from 1500 that building permission for the colourful houses we admire today was granted.

Artistic and remarkable is the risseu, a typical mosaic of black and white pebbles, paving the square.