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The regional capital of Liguria, Genoa is a thousand-year-old city to be discovered as an image of the population that lives here, our city seems to want to hide the beauties within it.
Genoa is one of the main ports of the Mediterranean, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, the great navigator who discovered America.
A powerful marine city since the Middle Ages, Genoa preserves the traces of its great history to a remarkable extent.
Imposing buildings, sumptuous aristocratic houses and great churches testify to the splendour of the past and integrate perfectly with the structure of the modern city.
Genoa has always been important thanks to its port and today the merchant traffic is among the most intense in the whole of the Mediterranean Sea.
Also as a passenger port of call it represents a strategic point among the most used thanks to the ferries and the cruise lines that link Genoa to the entire Mediterranean.
The port also means shipbuilding and Genoa excels in this field.
Here, Genoa has always built its lookout: the Genoa lighthouse, that is still active today, and whose light may be seen by sailors at more than 30 km away, as ever the symbol of the city.
The city’s historic centre is the largest in Europe.
Through the ‘Caruggi’, the typical narrow streets, in search of noble palaces, very rich and ancient churches, small squares and niches, still today we can breathe the mercantile atmosphere of the medieval epoch. The Christopher Colombus airport links the city with the main Italian and European destinations. |
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