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Genoa
Genoa is the capoluogo of the Liguria region and counts 600,000 inhabitants. Genoa is a city of sea that since the antiquity has been its main door, inasmuch as the hinterland immediately montuoso and is laboriously conquered from the buildings of the city. Its position where the palaces seem to watch the port from above have carried to the Petrarch to define “arrogant” Genoa, for this its position nearly of dominion on the sea. In fact the Republic of Genoa to the beginnings of the first one mellennio was one powerful and rich city that contese territories, traffics and goodses on all Mediterranean to the other nations, Repubbliche Marinare in head. Today Genoa seems substantially to resume with a renewed vigor and pride from the crisis of the slid decades of the economy based on the activities of the Port. Today the port is still centers them and is one of the greater ones of the Mediterranean, but it has been placed side by side from the fields of the Innovative activities and the Tourism.
With its characteristic skyline that still today for who comes the sea ago to appear like an unsurmountable fortress, contraddistinta com'è from its driven in net of fortifications on widths it walls that in ancient war ages they have rendered it impregnable is to the attacks from the sea how much from that way earth - Genoa could not renounce, especially beginning from years sixty, to just a renewal and modernization, that it had necessarily to pass, to the par of how much happened in many other metropoli, through the realization of great complexes inhabited you of popular type, whose quality, usefullness and functionality have been and are moreover still argument object (and sometimes of contestazione) from part of the city residents. Between the things to see to Genoa we cite the Aquarius, much beautiful and rich one of species of fish, and the nautical fair that every year the greater manifestation for lovers ones of boats represents, to sail or motor, and puts in extension the ability all Italian to conjugate necessary designs and functionalities in order to attract the customers. In the city of culture 2004 the museums could not lack. Some of these: articulated in various structures and pinacoteche between which the galleries of Palace White man, Red Palace and Real Palace, the Palace of the Prince, ancient residence of Andrea Doria, and Palazzo Ducale. The museale system is enriched then, to the ancient port from the Museum of the sea and navigation and from the Museum of Antarctica, from the Museum of the Cultures of the World to numerous Castle of Albertis and other truths dislocated in the several delegations from Voltri to Nerves. From last all the year is the climate is mild and donates to the city springs charming and bloomed (the Liguria is the greenhouse of Italy for the production of flowers), a lot that while to Milan it snows ago and cold, to Genoa, even repaired the shoulders from the twenty colds of the north, can is to us also the sun.
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