Here therefore arise Via Assarotti, Via Caffaro and via Palestro with projects

approved between 1851 and 1859, without the rows of trees provided by Barabino, but
with the planned sober seriality in the decorations of the facades and the
regularity of the plant, designed specifically to play a task of representing the
nineteenth-century bourgeoisie (just as centuries before Strada Nuova had played a
representative role in the magnificence of the Genoese nobility). At the end of the
century, the hilly settlement plan was expanded by opening the uphill ring road,
one of the most important achievements in modern Genoese urban planning, as well as
one of the most beautiful roads, given that it took place halfway up the coast.
along the entire hill, from Piazza Manin to Principe, it gives it unrivaled views.
The road was completed in successive stages between 1865 and 1880: it provided
buildings arranged upstream and rows of trees downstream, interrupted where
possible by public gardens, squares and belvedere. There were problems to be
overcome by having to stay on the same level curve to avoid excessive slopes, which
required excavations and demolitions. The road surface was built by taking
advantage of the aqueduct layout, demolishing most of the bridges that formed it
(today, however, traces of the ancient route can still be seen at various points in
the neighborhood) and erecting thick retaining walls.

Lifts and Funicolars: In addition to the Circonvallazione and the streets already
mentioned, there are two lifts that connect Castelletto to the center: both depart
from Spianata, one reaches Largo della Zecca, the other at Portello, whose arrival
station still retains the original Art Nouveau style with which it was conceived.
Both were made and put into operation in the first twenty years of the twentieth
century. Another system of ascent to the hilly areas are the funiculars: the one of
S.Anna, born on the idea and realization of a company made up of foreigners -
regular visitors of the city who realized the usefulness of a structure of this
type and got into society to give it life - it has been in service since 1891:
originally the plant worked by exploiting the driving force of the water coming
from the De Ferrari Galliera and Nicolay aqueducts, and was electrified only in
1979; the one that runs along the Zecca-Righi stretch was inaugurated in 1897 and
leads to the highest part of the district, the area formerly called the Chiappe
(since 1100) where the door of the same name was opened in the seventeenth-century
circle, near the Castellaccio fortification. Once a place of great strategic
importance from the military point of view for its excellent position on the
valley, from the nineteenth century the Righi became a destination for Sunday trips
and walks of the Genoese, as it is still today, with trattorias and trails in coast
that lead to the forts.