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Places to visit Genoa

Get around
There regular buses servicing the whole city, but the timetables one can see at stops are not always reliable. In addition to this there is a short tube railway connecting the city center with the peripheral district of Rivarolo.

Trains travel through the whole city in the east/west direction; this is probably the best way to travel if you plan to see some perypheral districts on the coastline, as no bus travels for the whole width of the city.

The hystorical center is serviced by bus only around some important squares and streets (Piazza Acquaverde for Stazione di Piazza Principe, Piazza della Nunziata, Largo Zecca, Piazza Corvetto, Piazza Caricamento); caruggi are best seen on foot.

Places to See:
*The natal house of Cristoforo Colombo. In piazza Dante you will find what is said to be the natal house of Columbus;
*The impressive fortification belt built on the hills surrounding the city, originating in the 16th Century;

*There is a funicular railway servicing Monte Righi, where one can have pleasant walks on the surrounding hills and to the fortifications (see above), or just admire the spectacular view of the city and the Mediterranean Sea.

*Spianata Castelletto is a nice belvedere where one can have a pleasant view of the city and of the seaport. It can be reached by public lift from Piazza della Nunziata or on foot from that very same square.

Other good places to visit are: The Aquarium, The Naval Museum, The Cathedral of San Lorenzo and The Historical Center. Genoa is known to have Europe’s biggest historical center. This is the heart of the old city. It’s made up of an incredible amount of tiny streets and alleys called Caruggi.

Walking through it will plump you right back in ancient times when Genoa was the most important harbour of the Mediterranean sea. Get a ferry to Genoa and enjoy these main sights.

Genoa 's ferry operators and routes:

SNCM Ferries: ferry Genoa - Tunis;
ferry Tunis - Genoa
Grimaldi Ferries Prestige: ferry Genoa - Malta;
ferry Malta - Genoa
Grimaldi Ferries Prestige: ferry Genoa - Catania;
ferry Catania - Genoa
Moby Ferry Lines: ferry Genoa - Olbia;
ferry Olbia - Genoa
Moby Ferry Lines: ferry Genoa - Bastia;
ferry Bastia - Genoa

Getting to Genoa Ferry port:

Grandi Navi Veloci

Leave motorway at "Genova ovest" keep left, following the signs to the harbour (porto). Then go through the helicoidal way, until the traffic lights. Go straight ahead and after 100m go down the tunnel in order to reach the port for the check-in procedures.

Moby Lines

Exit "Genova Ovest" follow the singsposts for "Porto" "Terminal Traghetti" and "Moby" Port entrance Ponte Assereto. Check-in at the automated tollbooths underneath the ferry terminal.

Direction Source: www.AFerry.to

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about Genoa

Genoa (Italian: Genova, Genoese: Zena) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of ca. 620,000 and the urban area has a population of ca. 890,000.

Genoa is one of the oldest cities of art in Italy. Its main features include the Piazza de Ferrari where the Opera and the Palace of the Doges are. There is also a house where Christopher Columbus is believed to have been born.

One part of the old city, the Strada Nuova or the Via Garibaldi, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2006. This district was designed in the mid-16th century to accommodate Mannerist palaces of the city's most eminent families, including Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco, Palazzo Grimaldi and Palazzo Reale. The famous art college, Musei di Strada Nuova and the Palazzo del Principe are also located on this street.

Other landmarks of the city include St. Lawrence Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Lorenzo), the Old Harbor (Porto Antico), transformed into a mall by architect Renzo Piano, and the famous cemetery of Staglieno, renowned for its monuments and statues. The Museo d'Arte Orientale has one of the largest collections of Oriental art in Europe.

Other than the old city sights, Genoa also has the second largest aquarium in the world which is located in the above-mentioned old harbor. The port of Genoa also contains an ancient lighthouse, called La Lanterna (i.e., "the lantern"). It is the oldest working lighthouse in the world, one of the five tallest ones, and the tallest brick one and it is Genoa's landmark.

Miscellaneous
*The Aquarium of Genoa was the largest in Europe at the time it was built.

*The University of Genoa, with 40,000 students (one of the largest universities in Italy) was founded in 1471.

*Genoa Cricket & Football Club was the first football team founded in Italy, in 1893. Even if it plays in Serie B, it's the most followed team in town.

*U.C. Sampdoria, football club founded in 1946 from the merger of two existing clubs, Andrea Doria (founded in 1895) and Sampierdarenese (founded in 1911), it's the second team of the city. Its supporters come mostly from southern Italy and live in Genoa's suburbs.

*The 27th G8 summit took place in Genoa in July 2001.

*For 2004, the European Union designated Genoa as the European Capital of Culture, along with the French City of Lille.