The historic complex of "Villa Centurione Doria" was built in the 16th century for the wealthy banker Adamo Centurione, a friend and advisor of Andrea Doria. The architect who designed it is unknown. "Villa Centurione Doria" was later enriched by the work of the famous architect Galeazzo Alessi from Perugia, who created an artificial lake with an island in the center, a "fairy island" to be reached by boat. After the death of Centurione in 1568, a long inheritance dispute arose between his daughter Ginetta and the heirs of his firstborn son Marco, who had died before his father. The dispute continued for almost two decades, until "Villa Centurione Doria" was finally acquired by the nephew Giovanni Andrea Doria, son of Ginetta Centurione and Giannettino Doria, cousin of the Prince Andrea Doria and his designate heir. Between 1590 and 1592, Giovanni Andrea Doria had the building renovated and enlarged, entrusting the project to Andrea Ceresola, known as "il Vannone". Giovanni Andrea Doria also had the garden renovated, which at the time extended to the sea, creating a long bower that connected the park with the Doria palace "alla marina" (to the sea), still present on the Pegli seafront, although much altered.The interventions carried out by the Doria descendants in the following centuries were limited to a few marginal changes. In the 19th century new rooms were built on the ground floor, frescoed with scenes of the "Risorgimento", and the southern facade, which had become the main one, was rebuilt in conjunction with the urban expansion of Pegli. Having lost the garden that reached the sea, the large park on the hill with the navigable lake remained. In 1908 "Villa Centurione Doria" was sold by the Doria Pamphilj family to an estate company and after a few changes of ownership in 1926 it passed to the municipality of Genoa. I was used for a few years as a branch of the municipality of Pegli, which had become part of "Great Genoa". In 1930 it became the seat of the Civic Naval Museum and a branch of the "Giuseppe Mazzini" classical high school. During the flood of 1993 a landslide  damaged an area of the park, which between the late 1990s and the early 2000s fell into a state of neglect; the restoration works first involved the palace and later the park between 2011 and 2015, with the restoration of the lake, which had been filled with earth in the 1970s.Thanks to these works the lake was emptied of earth restoring the original depth of 7 meters and the perimeter paths, but the reconstruction of the wooden bridge and the restoration of the water games on the island were not included.
The following are the beauties to visit inside the Park:
The Tower: Behind the palace there is a watchtower built in 1591, connected by an elevated passage to the noble floor. The tower is 27 meters high and has a square plan with a sloping base and a projecting crown. Since 2005 it has been the seat of the "CSU Sostenibile Archeospeleologia", a National School of Archaeospeology sponsored by the MIBACT, specializing in the research, study and valorisation of the underground areas. In the internal rooms of the tower, which can be visited on request, old armour are exhibited, which have been restored by the archaeologists of the CSU with the advice of the archaeologist of arms M. Vignola.
The Park: The palace is surrounded by a large public park of 115,000 m², created in 1548, which extends upstream from the building with its vegetation of holm oaks, oaks, conifers and exotic plants. Originally it reached the sea. In the upper part of the park there is the artificial lake designed by Alessi, fed by the stream Archetti, with the elliptical island in the center with water features and statues of nymphs and fauns. A few years after its construction, the lake and the island were mentioned by Vasari among the works carried out in Genoa by the "famous, and very celebrated architect, Galeazzo Alessi Perugino" (Below is the quote of Vasari: I will not mention that he made the lake and island of Mr. Adamo Centurione, very copious of waters and fountains, made in different beautiful and capricious ways).The solution adopted by Alessi interrupts, with its "beautiful and capricious ways", the traditional geometric scheme of the Renaissance garden, which we find instead in the lower part, while the lake and the island with their wild appearance intend to represent the reunion of man with nature, also underlined by the two statues of fauns that adorned the island, now preserved in the Museum of St. Agostino.
The Naval Museum: in the Palace there is the Naval Museum, inaugurated in 1930, where the visitors can admire collections of marine paintings, ship models, nautical charts and objects used in the maritime and port environment, illustrating the history of Ligurian seafaring from the Middle Ages to the present day. The works exhibited here come from the collection of the Municipality of Genoa and from private collections, in particular the one donated to the Municipality by the Engineer Fabio Garelli, which constituted the first nucleus of the museum. It remained closed for a few years at the end of the 20th century and it was reopened with a new layout on December 3, 2004. Since 2005 it is  part of the "Mu.MA" museum circuit together with "Galata − Museo del mare" and "Museoteatro della Commenda". In recent years, the museum has been stripped of its most important works in favor of the Galata Museum, including the famous painting of Christopher Columbus by Ghirlandaio.
(From Wikipedia).