Albertis Castle in Genoa, Italy

This was a statue I really wanted to see! It is a famous 1872 marble sculpture by Giulio Monteverde entitled “Colombo Giovinetto.” The man who built Albertis Castle, Enrico Alberto d'Albertis, was a sea captain who had a deep personal devotion to Christopher Columbus, just like me. He commissioned this statue and placed it in the western loggia of his castle, strategically facing the city’s harbor and looking towards San Salvador.