Palazzo del Tribunale, Finalborgo
Palazzo del Tribunale, Finalborgo site features
Last updated on October 19, 2026The palace
The facade is the building, as far as a visitor is concerned. It is described as of great interest for the presence of both typical fifteenth-century pictorial decorations and traces of all the subsequent interventions — a surface that was painted once and then altered repeatedly without ever being wiped clean.
The windows are Molinari's. The intermediated bifore — paired lights with a dividing element between them — were opened in the 1462 restructuring, along with a new staircase.
The interior was changed again three centuries later. The palace was revisited in its internal spaces in 1781, with the interest of governor Giovanni Benedetto Centurione of the Republic of Genoa — by then Finale had been Genoese for nearly seventy years.
Nothing else about the fabric is published. No plan, no dimensions, no materials and no description of the rooms appears in anything read for this page, and none is invented here.
Key highlights
A facade that shows its own repairs
Of great interest for carrying both the typical fifteenth-century pictorial decoration and the traces of every subsequent intervention. Most restored facades hide their history; this one displays it.
The intermediated bifore of 1462
Opened by Giorgio Molinari when Giovanni I Del Carretto had the palace restructured. With the new staircase they are the clearest surviving evidence of that campaign.
The seat of a state's courts
Seat first of the Del Carretto government and then of the judicial and administrative centre of the marquisate. For four centuries the decisions affecting this coast were taken behind this front.
The painting they swore on
The Madonna between san Giovanni Battista and sant'Ippolito hung in the palace's internal chapel, and before it the Finale magistracies swore their oath. It carries a dedicatory inscription of governor Diaz de Zamorano, dated 1627, and now hangs in the basilica.
A Genoese governor's refit
The interiors were revisited in 1781 with the interest of Giovanni Benedetto Centurione, governor for the Republic of Genoa — the last documented change to the building.