Exploring GENOA, ITALY | This City Is Fascinating!

Walking around the interesting city of Genoa (Genova), Italy on the Ligurian Sea.

Music during the video (in order):

"I Know Her" by Rune Dale
&
"Sunny Morning" by Bruno E.
&
"Let It Happen" by South London HiFi

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Exploring GENOA, ITALY | This City Is Fascinating!

[matthewwalz]

Went to Genoa this year. Most underrated place in Italy for sure.

[AP-ijwz]

With is 113 hectares the Genoa historic Centre is the most extended medieval Historic Centre of Europe and is the most densely populated. Genoa centre, with its Palazzi dei Rolli, is an Unesco heritage centre as well.

[RChappo]

We were in Genoa last year and we loved it. Underrated city. I'd love to go back again.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

It's a fascinating city, that whole Italian Riviera is fascinating

[hh]

That wasn't the main piazza, that was piazza Matteotti. Piazza de Ferrari is just 20 meters from there

[chiaraurbano]

Sempre bello lo stupore dei foresti😂
Edit: viva Genova🌟

[philippe]

Was there last week as part of a trip to the French Riviera and Barcelona. Used Genova as our base to explore the Italian Riviera. It was a pleasant surprise. I had no expectations and found the city to be charming. It has a mix of elegance and gritty. It's definitely an underrated Italian city! We only scratched the surface and I want to return.

[iamsabas]

Here's the place names with times
1:40 Mercato del Carmine (closed)
2:53 Basilica dell'Annunziata
3:14 jump to Via Balbi (missed Palazzo Reale and others)
4:20 Via di Pré
5:17 Mercato di Piazza dello Statuto (on the sea there's the Galata Museum of sea and migrations)
7:06 Porta dei Vacca (medieval entrance in the city walls)
7:20 the graffiti are from a social center
7:57 Via del Campo (memorialized in a song by De André starting "in via del campo there's a prostitute")
8:38 Piazza Vacchero and the Infamous Column (Colonna Infame)
9:10 Piazza Fossatello
9:28 Bar Marescotti Cavo (all wooden inside)
9:40 Via San Luca
10:01 San Siro Basilica
10:10 A cannabis themed shop
10:28 San Luca church
10:55 Don't you have cigarette vending machines??
11:15 Piazza Banchi (Cinepassioni is a movie memorabilia exhibition in the old Merchant's Lodge)
12:00 the Banchi church is interesting because it was financed by the sale of the stores below
12:11 Palazzo San Giorgio (port authority, old home of Saint George's Bank, one of the earliest in the world)
12:40 the area on the sea here is called Old Port and there's the Aquarium
13:20 the menu is of the artsanal pasta shop in Via Canneto il Curto
13:50 Via San Lorenzo
14:10 Piazza San Lorenzo and the Cathedral
15:20 Piazza Matteotti, the Chiesa del Gesu (a rubens painting inside) and the Doge Palace
15:40 The book fair is hosted two times a year, this is the summer edition
16:28 a glimpse of Piazza de Ferrari and the opera house
17:11 another glimpse of the square and the Palazzo della Borsa (old stock market)
18:30 Porta Soprana (the oher medieval entrance to the city)
19:11 Piazza Dante, there's the Sant'Andrea Cloister and Christopher Columbus house 100 meters to the front
19:43 Via di Ravecca

[annethenomad]

Amazing as always. Admire that you try and upload for us everyday, but please don’t be afraid to just take a break for yourself.

[deannademerritt]

I’d love to visit the place where my family came from, Genoa. Such a pretty place and filled with beautiful history 🫶🏼

[SanTM]

Went to Genoa in May this year. Fantastic little city. The people are really proud of it and want to keep it clean and the harbour plastic free. Not joking, on the Porto Antico there's a bin every 3 metres.


I was super lucky that the entire time I was there there was a Slow Food fish festival going on. People from all over the world were selling fish, pasta, gelato and loads and loads of different beers from Italy.


Great place and relatively cheap. Will definitely go again.

[tommycscat]

I love Genoa so much. I was only there for 3 days, but we saw so much. Our Airbnb was up the Funicolare Zecca-Righe, so it was fun to take public transit, even.

[silvioterro]

My favorite city in Italy by far, very underrated place.

[nautiboiscuba]

You should check out the Cinque Terre National Park. Beautiful area along the Italian Coast.

[chestersakamoto]

Genova looks amazing! I've seen a number of videos on the Ligurian capital at this point, but yours is easily the best, for it strays off the beaten path in favor of a local's view of the city. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, man. I can't wait to visit for myself.

[topo-esploso]

I live in genova and love my city a lot but, sadly, most of people who live here think genova sucks

[carlmark]

So glad you made this video, this is one of the cities i didn't get to see when i was in Italy in 2012. Thanks so much! Grazie mille e buon viaggio!

[ItachiUchiha]

Piazza De Ferrari??? Castelletto??? Piazza Corvetto??? Corso Garibaldi??? Nervi??? Boccadasse??? There are a lot of good places to visit in Genoa..🤷🏼‍♂️

[james]

Genoa looks like it is dripping in old world character. Definitely on my list.

[JM-nwjj]

Just like what furio said about the north