Some sources indicate that the old religious edifices were incorporated in the construction of the barracks, cfr. for example MISCOSI G., "I quartieri di Genova antica" (The Quarters of Antique Genoa) ed. Tolozzi - Genoa 1966, pg. 135: "... there are those who say that the columns of the antique church were incorporated in the barracks and in this case a diligent examination of the workers of the Nuovo Porto (New Port), could take the time to photograph them before destroying them". SALVI G., seems to think it differently. In "Distrutione della Badia Genovese do Capodifaro", in Benedictina XV - 1968, pg. 341: "... among a lot of people, even intellectuals, there remained a hope that something of the antique abbey was left in the walls of the large barracks... Nursing such a hope, and with the gentle permission of the military authorities, I went up to take a look. I was left completely disillusioned. The old chapel of the tall barracks, was reduced to rubble, still with some traces of sacred paintings. The painful truth was this: of the celebrated monastary, there was nothing left; even the foundations were demolished to build the new redoubts. Only a tomb cover...but it was very ruined. I was also shown the place, already prepared in one of the outer walls of the barracks, where they wanted to place it as a testimony of the times ...". This article, published in 1968, was written about forty years ago.