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Genoa Travel Guide October 2023 | Walking Tour (4k Ultra HD 60fps) ▶︎Cap...

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Genoa, Italy (by Aleksandr Popov)

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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

-- Henry David Thoreau

(Genova, Italy)

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a book market in genoa, italy. 07.01.23

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Fuck Christopher Columbus and fuck colonialism 🖕🖕

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San Pietro in Banchi

Genoa (Genova), Italy

Dec. 2016

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Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno (The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno) in Genoa, Italy. Look at that detail in these sculptures!

Check out my blog post!

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By Gian Paolo Chiesi

Sestri Levante, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

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More jellyfish

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Palazzo Gio Battista Saluzzo, Via Chiabrera 7 La famiglia Saluzzo, ascritta all'albergo dei Calvi nel 1528, costruisce il palazzo sulla piazza dove si affacciano due edifici dell'"albergo" Giustiniani. Gio. Batta Saluzzo, governatore di Savona, ambasciatore presso i re di Spagna e Francia, più volte senatore della Repubblica di Genova è il primo proprietario della famiglia a comparire nei rolli dal 1588, pochi anni dopo la costruzione del palazzo. Le solide facciate dipinte indicano due piani nobili e introducono, attraverso il sobrio portale, a un grande atrio ornato di colonne e da un ninfeo. Il monumentale scalone loggiato, che sale sino al secondo dei due piani nobili, conduce agli appartamenti affrescati. I bombardamenti della seconda guerra mondiale hanno in parte danneggiato il palazzo che conserva gli affreschi Mercurio con la Fama e l'Eternità di Domenico Piola, Aurora che esce dall'Oceano e Nettuno e Anfitrite di Gregorio De Ferrari. #palazzideirolli #genova #genovamorethanthis #rollidays #liguria #igersgenova #travelgram #secoloxix #travel #italy #architecture #wanderlust #vivogenova #genoa #travelphotography #liguria_super_pics #europe #igersitalia #italia_super_pics #ilikeitaly #architecture #art #beniculturali30 #genovagram #whatitalyis #vivoliguria #museidistradanuova #loves_united_genova #igfriends_liguria #archilovers (presso Palazzo Gio Battista Saluzzo) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClEnaXCo9hz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Day 11 -> Genoa (13.01.2023)

Today was my first day in Italy. And I just love Italian food! I started my day with a very good Latte Machiatto and a Foccacia. To lunch I had the famous Pasta Pesto Genovese and then I had an Italian ice cream with whipped cream - so good!

In the morning it was very cloudy, but from noon the sun came out and it became warmer and nicer. After having a plan for every city I visited so far, I decided to just walk around Genoa today without a specific plan. But still I saw many beautiful buildings, churches, the port and the old town. See below for some impressions.

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Genoa, Italy (by Aleksandr)

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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.

-- Lewis Carroll

(Genova, Italy)

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i went to genoa to see the works of artemisia gentileschi, and i was not disappointed 🫶🏻

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Italian Escapade: revised aka Plan 'B'

If you follow my account on X (formerly known as Twitter), you may recall I mentioned we were doing some juggling of our itinerary...

Plan 'B' image source: Unsplash

The accommodations are booked!

NOTE: links to information in the blog post are in blue.

The Arrival 🇫🇷

NCE Airport, one night due to a late arrival and in readiness for the Flixbus journey to Genoa 🇮🇹 the next morning. It takes approximately 3 hours, depending upon your chosen departure time.

Next Stop: Genoa

Flixbus terminates close to the Piazza Principe train station in the centre of the city and from here, we make our way across (probably by Metro) to Piazza de Ferrari with its fabulous fountain.

Arriving in Genoa a little after 13:00hrs, means we should arrive at our next accommodation in perfect time to check-in to our private room with an internal bathroom at Marathon Beds and Beer Hostel.

We've never stopped in hostel accommodation even though we have been travelling together since the early 1990s.

It took me 2 days before I showed it to my husband - but we both agree it seems to have a good vibe and it's in the perfect position for the short time we have in the city.

We made our reservation through Booking.com but it's also listed on Hostel World too.

As I'm writing my 'Trip Plan' I just came across this Free guided tour on Get Your Guide.

It lasts approximately 2hrs and, I believe the process of free tours is the participants are expected to leave the guide a Tip at the end.

It sounds interesting but we will do some more reading on it, before coming to a decision.

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We will depart Genoa around lunchtime the following day for our next destination (this is the Plan 'B').

The hostel is a few minutes walk from Brignole train station, which is very handy as our next stop is a direct route by rail.

Day 3: Rapallo (5 nights) 🇮🇹

Finally, we arrive at the destination where we will explore Cinque Terre (5 Lands), famous for their multicoloured buildings which line the rugged Ligurian coastline and are scattered over a fairly short distance from each other along a popular hiking trail.

We changed our plans completely for this part of our trip as we had originally booked to stay in La Spezia for the Cinque Terre.

We began to realise we were overstretching ourselves to make the journey directly back to the Cote d'Azur, before taking our flight back home.

It would have impacted the overall enjoyment hence, ruling out La Spezia.

So, we decided to treat ourselves to an accommodation in a most scenic spot 👇

We completed our reservation using Hotels.com as part of the OneKeyCash rewards scheme.

Here's what TripAdvisor says about the Hotel Italia e Lido:

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What is the Cinque Terre?

A series of storied coastal towns on the untamed Italian Riviera coastline is known as Cinque Terre.

The five towns that comprise the Cinque Terre: Rimaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia not accessible by boat, Vernazza and Monterosso were first fortified settlements during the Middle Ages. Each was shielded from Saracen raiders by a castle that overlooked the sea. You can expect to see vibrant colourful houses and vineyards clinging to steep terraces in each of the five towns; fishing boats moor in the harbours; and trattorias serve up seafood specialties and pesto, the region's signature sauce. The Sentiero Azzurro hiking trail connects the villages and provides panoramic views of the sea or; you can opt to visit most of them by boat.

What Else?

Well, we're not entirely all planned out day by day, we like to make things up as we go along. 'Travel' for us - is not all about schedules and ticking boxes of 'must see' places.

But, we do know we want to pay a visit to Portofino - mainly caused by a TV period drama series a year or so ago "Hotel Portofino."

We hope to reach Portofino by one of the local ferry routes, but a lot will depend upon the seasonal weather, which will dictate the sailing operational times. If not, there's always a bus!

Back to GENOA:

Oh yes, we haven't quite said 'arriverderci' to Genoa just yet.

We've bagged ourselves a rather nice 2 bedroomed apartment, via Booking.com even though we were really looking at budget accommodation for this part of the trip - but our hearts were stolen by places we wanted to live in - permanently!

And this my friends, is why we've steered quite clear of Italy for many years - we absolutely know, it's going grab a tight hold and not let go. We're assuming there will be lots of revisits in between our other trips.

So perhaps we will get to experience that 2 hour guided tour after all... We will be located in the Centro Storico area of Genoa, which means heaps of wonderful building architecture to feast our eyes upon!

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Final Days:

We finish up back in Nice, on the Promenade des Anglais where we will have a couple of days to explore an area that will be a 'first' for us both.

It provides us with the opportunity to wander along the promenade, or travel on the trams into the Nice Ville and Vieux Nice as well.

Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille. It's situated at the base of the French Alps, on the French Riviera, the southeast coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea.

It's also around 13kms distance from Monaco, which I have visited, but many years ago when I was in my early 20s.

If we like, it's an easy enough destination for us to reach from our favourite UK airport - so we can always hop on a two and a half hour flight whenever the fancy takes us.

That's all folks and thank you for reading.

The next updates will arrive during and after our travels.

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On February with April I was given the chance, although I didn't want it at the time (depression and anxiety kept me from wanting to go), to go with an Erasmus Exchange+ program to Italy and specifically Torino (Turin), Milano (Milan) and Genova (Genoa).

My second time visiting Italy, having visited with another Erasmus exchange program when I was 18, then at 23-24 years old I found myself enjoying it far more than I did at 18. I had great company and I found myself in a better mental headspace. Granted the months prior were filled with anxiety and panic attacks and a depressive episodes, those few weeks were really uplifting!

I had the best roommate and a very nice hotel room with kind room keepers! I remember on the first day there I fell and got injured I needed a week to heal and they were really non-judgemental about me not being gone from the room. Although I felt like I was in the way.

Overall, from this trip I don't remember my injuries, I remember the beautiful views and the laughs I had with my roommate while having dinner on our beds and the conversations, the museums and manors we visited! And the fact I got to ride trains and Metros!