Anyone coming to Genoa for the first time will be surprised. Travelers who approach the city from the east and suddenly see the glittering sea and the city below from the hill will be enchanted.
We have many images of this city in our heads: vibrant port city, port of call for many cruise ships, pesto and foccacia as culinary highlights; and not forgetting its proud past as “la superba”, the proud, eternal rival of Venice on the world’s oceans.
Quite wrongly, the Ligurian city is simply forgotten by most travelers to Italy. Genoa has the largest contiguous old town in Europe, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and anyone strolling through the “caruggi”, the winding alleyways of the centro storico, will be drawn to the countless palazzi and churches. Numerous museums and, above all, the Teatro Carlo Fenice contribute to the city’s cultural wealth. Located centrally, the Teatro, inaugurated in 1828, enjoys an excellent reputation. It was largely destroyed by a bombing raid in 1944 - but the reconstruction was a success: The magnificent old façade on the outside and a tastefully modern auditorium on the inside that seats 2000 people. Enjoy a few carefree days by the sea, which is omnipresent in this special, fortunately sometimes forgotten city, so that it is comparatively not (yet) overcrowded.