If you're looking for big, spacious venues, you're in the wrong place. Genoa at night can be a really interesting experience, if you're used to wide avenues full of big bars heaving with people. In the city of the Lanterna, on the…

Set in the Old Dockyards, Galata Museo del Mare is an underrated maritime museum, a great introduction to Genoa as a cosmopolitan seafaring nation where you can learn all about local boy Christopher Columbus and his voyages of dis…

Given the great danger the city was in - besieged by pirates from the sea and by the enemy armies from the surrounding land - its defensive solution had to be not only complex, but brilliant. The walls of Genoa were built and then…