Villa Imperiale, Renaissance villa and urban park in Genoa, Italy.

Villa Imperiale is a long rectangular Renaissance residence with corner loggias, built for Lorenzo Cattaneo in the early 16th century in San Fruttuoso. Its main hall vault carries Luca Cambiaso's fresco cycle of the Story of the Sabines, painted around 1565. The garden rises in geometric terraces on the hillside, with a nymphaeum, balustraded ramps and pergola corridors from the mid-16th century.

Lorenzo Cattaneo, of a family linked to Florentine nobility, had the villa built in the early 16th century as a residence for the family's representation. Louis XII of France inaugurated it in 1502, arriving in Genoa to a cortege that passed under the atrium vault, whose black-stone corbels have borne the French lily since then. In the 17th century it passed to the Salvago and then the Imperiale family, who held it until the 1920s before the municipality acquired it.

The villa's name comes from the Imperiale family, who owned it from the 17th century until the 1920s, after the Salvago. Today it houses a social centre for the elderly, the Lercari municipal library and the Gianni Rodari nursery school, and in summer the Teatro Garage festival "Ridere d'agosto, ma anche prima" stages performances in the grounds.

The villa sits in San Fruttuoso, east of the historic centre, and is reached on foot from the surrounding streets; a narrow crêuza climbs along its west wall toward the Villa Migone. The building now houses the Lercari municipal library, a social centre for the elderly and the Gianni Rodari nursery school. In summer the Teatro Garage festival "Ridere d'agosto, ma anche prima" stages performances in the grounds.

A narrow crêuza climbs the western boundary wall toward Villa Migone, where General Günter Meinhold signed the German surrender of Genoa on the evening of 24 April 1945 before Cardinal Pietro Boetto and partisan commander Remo Scappini.