Chiosco della Musica

Chiosco della Musica (Music Kiosk) is a beautiful monument in Rapallo, built in Art Nouveau style and dedicated to the most important Italian and foreign composers in history.

SHORT HISTORY

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Italian immigrants of Rapallo in Latin America, desired the kiosk as a gift to the town they came from.

The monument, 10 meters in diameter and 9 meters in height, with 12 columns supporting the dome, was designed by the architect Luigi Devoto and inaugurated on November 3, 1929.

Inside the dome, work of the painter Giovanni Grifo, are depicted the following composers: Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Arrigo Boito, Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hector Berlioz and Christoph Willibald Gluck on the stalls; Johann Sebastian Bach, Gaspare Spontini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Domenico Cimarosa, Georges Bizet, Amilcare Ponchielli, Charles Gounod, Gaetano Donizetti, Claudio Monteverdi, Georg Friedrich Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn and Giacomo Puccini in the medallions of the arches.

Between the winter of 2009 and the spring of 2011, restoration work were carried out on the structure. The roof and the balustrades were renovated and the pictorial decorations were refreshed.

On this occasion, the entire square of Martiri per la Libertà (Martyrs for Freedom), in which the monument is found, was repaved in stone and pedestrianised. During the works, the remains of an ancient pier came to light, which today are presented under a glass pyramid that makes them partially visible.

HOW TO GET THERE

Chiosco della Musica is located on the waterfront Lungomare Vittorio Veneto, about 350 meters away from the Rapallo train station. The closest bus stop is Piazza Polipo, located about 200 meters away, on the bus Lines 39, 93, 95, 96 and 98. To find the monument on foot, use the map below.