Genoa had very important people both in ancient and modern times. It would be very hard to speak about them all and so we just name and higlight some of them asking the others to forgive. Christopher Columbus is surely the most famous, but here was also Andrea Doria the clever and powerful Admiral of the Republic, member of one of the ancient families who still has important descendants in Genoa nowadays. Giuseppe Mazzini one of the Italian unification architect, Nino Bixio one of the "1000" to start to fight for the Italian unification, Goffredo Mameli the author of the national hymn, Nicolò Paganini the most famous violinist of all times, and coming down to nowadays: Eugenio Montale, he won the Nobel prize with poems, many of which regarding the The Cinque Terre one of the most beautiful places along the Ligurian Italian Riviera, nominated Human Cultural Heritage by Unesco. Fabrizio De Andrè probably the best Italian songwriter, Renzo Piano one of the most famous architect in the world. He is the one that redesigned the Genoa Expo Area with the Acquarium in 1992.

Enrico Pelos, Genoa editor, Liguria (general) editor, world66.com, Genoa, Italy.

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