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Genoa is a city that has grown around its enormous port.
Its boisterous and frantic activity has done it to grow in a chaotic way,
in which, as said Dickens, anything can surprise you when you twist a
corner.
Moreover the city is builded on a very eventful land that have forced
the city to adapt to the verticality, excavating tunnels under the buildings
and installing funiculars, elevators,
stairs and bridges that convert this city in a jungle. 
The port, the true center that has
given life to the city during centuries, is at present in full rehabilitation.
Avenues, commercial zones and important installations as the Aquarium,
replace the old springs full of dirty stores.
At the east of the port grows its old helmet, the medieval
city, that forms a labyrinth of alleys, avenues and stairs more or
less dark and even at times extremely sordid, between hidden palaces by
the dirt and old buildings, and it is where the unique and own spirit
of the city of Genoa is harboured. In the old helmet stands up the Duomo
of Gothic style.
Around the old helmet the Renaissance
city grew, and it is the part where develops the greater social and
commercial activity of the city. Here you can access to a pair of extensive
parks.
To admire splendid pans of
the city is recommended to stroll along the Corso Paganini, a horizontal
avenue that travels through the saw.
 Note
that Genoa was the supposed hometown of Christopher Columbus, and because
of it there are diverse monuments to the great discoverer, as well as
its house and one of its caravels in the port.
 At
the outskirts of the city the cemetery
is founded, enormous and startled. This is one of the greatest thing of
Genoa, don’t lose it. |
