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Genoa: famous for its old harbor and its aquarium, but also for its narrow carruggi e and its historic city center (the largest in Europe);

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Genoa, Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy Genoa, the Capital of the lively Region of Liguria, is "superb for its people and its walls,” as Petrarch characterized it. One could walk right into infinity, treading the city's historic center and enchanting caruggi, the tight and winding streets lined by very tall houses that speak of this city’s glorious past. Each wall, each alleyway and palazzo, villa, park and defense structure boasts the charm, fully-intact, of the old Genoese Marine Republic. "City of arms and trade," its artistic beauties are protected inside the noble palaces known as the Rolli, as well as within many civic museums. by Author Article Baldassarri Giuseppe Visual Storytelling

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Genoa, the birthplace of the world-famous pesto and other excellent gastronomic delicacies, is still today the site of an efficient commercial port, numerous industrial activities and even of avant garde scientific and technological manufactures, thanks to the Collina Erzelli Science and Technological Park.

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Making the rounds in Genoa is a continuous series of astonishing moments, visions and encounters. In its lanes and piazzas one can smell the fragrances of a history marked by Genoa’s skillful mariners and astute traders that traversed the Mediterranean. Much of the city’s historic center is delineated by the so-called Strade Nuove or New Roads (Via Garibaldi, Via Cairoli and Via Balbi), where the Palazzi dei Rolli –UNESCO World Heritage Site – stand. So many of these palazzi have painted Genoa in the light of its illustrious past: from Palazzo San Giorgio, entirely frescoed; to Palazzo della Nuova Borsa in the main Piazza De Ferrari; without forgetting the Ducal Palace, one of the oldest among them and currently location for prime cultural-artistic exhibits. Characteristic is the Porto Antico area – its narrow roads, mixed architecture, Classical and neoclassical palazzi, even edifices more Oriental in appearance. Jutting out from the skyline is the most important place of Catholic worship for the city, the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. Built between 1100 and 1400, the structure is composed of both Gothic and Romanesque components. There's a lot more.

Genoa: famous for its old harbor and its aquarium, but also for its narrow carruggi e and its historic city center (the largest in Europe);

The Liguria region is a destination recommended both for those who like relaxation and for dynamic people: with its jagged land, its hills, peaks and cliff-hanging villages, is the ideal spot for hiking or bicycling, diving or paragliding, as well as visiting villages rich in history.

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