The building complex of Sant’Agostino dates back to the 13th century and still features a Gothic-style church and a peculiar tile-clad brick bell tower.
The former convent dwellings around the two cloisters now house both Genoese and Ligurian works of art dating from the Early Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
A museum tour highlights masterpieces of sculpture by Giovanni Pisano and Pierre Puget, among others; paintings and frescoes by major Italian artists working in Genoa and Liguria (Luca Cambiaso, Domenico Fiasella and many others), as well as valuable specimens of pottery, majolica and woodwork.