Sights

Many places and sights are worth a visit in Genoa, especially in the old city centre. It is the largest in Europe and can only be explored properly on foot because the ancient streets between the improbably tall houses are too narrow and busy for other modes of transport. Wandering the web of streets is worth it though for the sheer pleasure of all the Palaces, churches, squares and little cafes and food shops one comes across. The museums and National galleries and the ancient palaces to important cathedrals should be seen too. One could start with the "The Palazzo Ducale". This was once the ancient home of the head of the Genoa Republic and it has recently been completely restored. The building is now full of exhibitions, currently running until May is "El Siglos de los Genoveses" about the most interesting period of the Genoa Republic with paintings from all over the world and many other very interesting things - meetings, festivals and other interesting things all year round. The palace stands by itself and when visiting some of the ancient private rooms, now open to the public during special occasions, really shows all the magnificence of the ancient Genoa Sea Republic.

The Genoa Acquarium should not be missed. The spectacular sea and under sea world now in the reach of everyone. It is the biggest in Europe and is the third biggest tourist attraction in Italy.

A visit is due to the Genoa National Cemetery, an open air historical sculptures musem, probably the most important in Europe of this kind.

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The San Lorenzo Cathedral

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Situated in the centre of the medieval city the San Lorenzo Cathedral is surrounded by buildings of great religious and civil value: the baptistery, the archbishop's palace, the San Lorenzo cloister and the ducal palace. The cathedral, in the past close, in between backstreets and tiny squares, was isolated during the nineteenth century with the creation of the Piazza Matteotti Square and Via San Lorenzo and the enlargement of the Piazza San Lorenzo.

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Museum of Natural History

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The insect collections are particularly remarkable and they include hymenoptera, coleoptera, hemiptera, lepidoptera, orthoptera, odonata. Among the other invertebrates, there are remarkable collections of molluscs, arachnids and sponges. Among the vertebrates there many bird specimens (birds of paradise, parrots, kingfishers, cassowaries). Among the mammals: marsupials, bats, exotic rodents and African antelopes. The reptilian collections consist of 7,000 specimens belonging to 1,400 diffferent species; the fish collection consists of 2,000 species. I learnt a great deal from the more..

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address:	Via Brigata Liguria, 9
openinghours:	9-12 and 15-17.30 - closed Mon. and Fri.
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The lighthouse symbol of the city

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"La Lanterna", the lighthouse symbol of the city, is easily visible from many viewpoints. Considering that it was and still is the port beacon, it is mainly visible from the sea. Already in medieval times the site where the "Lanterna" rises was known as Capo di Faro viz. Beacon Promontory. The lighthouse, 117 meters above sea level, radiates its light up to 36 nautical miles distance. In the district of San Beningno, neighbouring on the new office district, it marks entrance to the city to visitors arriving from the west. The "Lanterna" lighthouse is one of the most ancient still more..

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Palazzo Bianco Gallery

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The gallery is housed in a 16th-century building, restored in the 18th century; it keeps works by Italian artists (Filippino Lippi, Caravaggio, Procaccini, Morazzone), Flemish (Memling, Gérard David, Rubens, Van Dyck), Spanish (Murillo, Zurbaran) alongside 16th to 18th-century Genoese painters as Luca Cambiaso, Bernardo Strozzi, G.B. Castiglione, Domenico Piola and Alessandro Magnasco. Remarkable exhibits: Christ and the Coin by Van Dyck, Venus and Mars by Rubens and a cope made in Constantinople in 1261.

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address:	via Garibaldi, 11
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Palazzo Rosso Gallery

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Opened to the public in 1874, the gallery is located in a 17th-century building frescoed by the major Genoese painters (De Ferrari, Guidobono, Piola); it houses paintings by Veronese, Reni, Guercino, Preti, Castiglione, Strozzi, Rubens alongside furniture and a collection of porcelain items, Genoese pottery, crib statuettes. There is also a Prints and Drawings Room and a collection of 200,000 photos. The musuem is free to enter on sundays though you still need an entry ticket, as for any other day, from the book shop across the road.

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address:	Via Garibaldi 18
openinghours:	Tues., Thur. and Fri. 9-13, Wed. and Sat. 9-19, Su
tel:	+39 (0)10 - 2476368

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