The discovery of our beautiful Genoa.
The splendid palaces of the Rolli and the museums in Strada Nuova, World Heritage site since 2006. The Cathedral of San Lorenzo, medieval church built between 1100 and the end of the fourteenth century, with the relics of St. John the Baptist and in the right corner, an English unexploded bomb from 1941. The Palazzo Ducale, residence of the Doges of the Republic of Genoa. The old gate of the city, Porta Soprana, one of the main medieval stone architecture of Liguria. The house where Christopher Columbus lived in his youth. Piazza De Ferrari with its famous bronze fountain ...
If you proceed from here you enter in the largest old center of Europe, and you discover beautiful squares like that of San Matteo with the church and the palaces of Doria, elegant streets like Via Luccoli or Via Degli Orefici with their nice and old shops or equally famous streets like Via del Campo with the shop-museum dedicated to Fabrizio De Andre' and Genoese songwriters. From this tangle of alleys called "maze" by Dutch writer Ilija Pfeijffer Leonard in his book "La Superba" (2013) you get to the Old Port of Genoa, designed by architect Renzo Piano with the biggest Aquarium in Europe, where you can also find the Biosphere, the Bigo (which offers a 360-degree panorama of the city of Genoa), the Sea Museum (with the reconstruction of a galley of the 600, a brig-schooner of '800, the storm room 4 D), the submarine Nazario Sauro (first museum ship in Italy), the City of Children (a large play area of over 3,000 square meters in which visitors between 2 and 12 years old touch, observe and experiment with different topics), the Museum of the Antarctic (an exhibition full of artifacts taken during expeditions to Antarctica, spectacular movies, reconstruction of environments) and the Galleon (built by Roman Polanski for the film "Pirates")...
And then other beautiful places like the village of fishers called Boccadasse and Nervi , with its amazing promenade along the sea ...
