What to see in Genoa

An authentic itinerary along the Riviera di Levante There are summer days when the sea in Genoa doesn't ask for permission. It just calls you. It happens in June, when the light lingers on building facades and the air already carries that faint saltiness that signals the full season ahead. On days like these, the idea of hopping on a ferry and heading east along the coast feels like the only sensible thing to do. I've known this route my whole life. At seventeen, my first rom

GENOA ON FOOT Genoa is a city you discover by walking. There is no shortage of walking routes: from the Expo area to the Nervi Promenade, from the Righi paths to the more linear coastal stretches. Everyone has a different character, a rhythm of their own. But there is one detail that really changes the experience: stay at a point from which you can leave the house and already be on the route. The Waterfront in Genoa is this. A new area, still partly in transformation, but alr

Discover three historic cafés in Genoa between chic breakfasts, afternoon teas and elegant aperitifs in the Caruggi. Genoa has a rare talent: mixing the popular soul of its caruggi with a refinement that appears suddenly, almost by magic. You walk through fry shops that smell of hot farinata and, around the corner, you find yourself in a 19th-century hall where time seems to have stood still, among hand-polished wood paneling and decorated porcelain. It is this play of contr