MORE ABOUT YOUR DESTINATION
OF GENOA
The planet’s most magical city is a jumble of peaceful streets, each with their history and treasure to discover.
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE ROMANTIC THAN LOSING YOURSELF IN ATHENS?
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Boccadasse fishing village
Architect Renzo Piano sees his home town, Boccadasse, as a “secret, inward-looking kasbah city”. But the one-time secluded fishing village is now part of Genoa, and comes alive on summer evenings. For locals, pastel-coloured Bocca…
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Campo Pisano: Genova, history and legend
Summer 1284. The fleets of Genoa and Pisa clash one sweltering day in August off the Tuscan coast between Pisa and Livorno, near the rocks of Meloria. The outcome of the battle is a decisive turning point in Italian maritime contr…
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Summer 2018:, music returns to Genoa
George Gershwin, the famous pianist and composer of Rhapsody in Blue, said, “I like to think of music as an emotional science”. And how can you disagree? If music is able to free us from reality and set our imaginations adrift, th…