Via XX Settembre
Via XX Settembre runs through the very shopping center of Genoa. It is a street surrounded by large department stores and expensive shops, where the café tables under the arcades are lit with a delicate glow of neon lights. One of those cafes, Tonitto, is a favorite place of Genoese youth. Shops, situated in the side streets around Stazione Brignole and Piazza Colombo, they specialize in local delicacies. The indoor market Mercato Orientale has a similar character (pn.-sb.). It is located halfway along the street, in the former cloisters of the Augustinian monastery.
Near the train station, next to a small park, leży Victory Square. It is a stunning white square built during the fascist period. From here, suburban buses depart, which go uphill and in Piazza Corvetto enter a tunnel under the hill of Villetta di Negro abounding in artificial waterfalls and grottoes. At the top of this hill is the Museo d'Arte Orientale E.. Chiossone (Tue-Sat. 9.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00; 2000 L). The museum includes a collection of oriental art, including. 18th-century paintings and sculptures, and the exhibition of samurai weapons. Piazza Corvetto itself is a maze of people and cars, which can be comfortably viewed from a park bench or from a sumptuous one, 19th century cafe built by Austrians on the corner of Via Romana, Caffe Mangini. Along the winding streets above, there are mainly residential houses, though on the Corso Solferino 39 houses an interesting collection of pre-Columbian art, Museo Americanisto F. Lunardi (Tue-Sat. 9.30-12.00 and 15.00-17.30, Nd. 15.00-17.30; 2000 L). There is a bus from Stazione Brignole # 33.
Outside the center: Albaro, Boccadasse, hills and Staglieno
At the end of the long Corso Italia, running along the coast and reaching as far as the Fiera exhibition grounds, there is a popular recreational suburb of Genoa, zwane Albaro (bus # 41 ze Principe Station). You can go jogging here, walk, rest or - sitting at a cafe table - watch the sunset. Private beaches charge a small fee for using the changing rooms and showers, and if someone does not like the sea, There is also an outdoor swimming pool nearby, Via O. from Gaspari 39.
You can walk or take the bus from Albaro to Boccadasse # 31 (z Piazza de Ferrari). Including formerly independent, and currently belonging to Genoa, you can still see boats stretched out on a gravel beach and hung between the windows, drying nets. You can also visit several shops with artistic ambitions.
When there was no room for further expansion in Genoa, Plots of land were cut down in the rock in the surrounding hills. This amphitheater structure is clearly visible from the windows of the cable car slowly rising among the residential houses to Sant'Anna . The base station of this cable car is located between the two road tunnels in Piazza del Portello. From Galeria Garibaldi run - a similar route - wooden carriages of a different cable car. Regular bus tickets are valid for both queues.
The funicular ride itself (if it is open, which is not that common) is one of the most interesting experiences, but the advertisement for views from the Righi Hills is greatly exaggerated. Much more worth the trip to the Staglieno Cemetery located on the other side of the valley. Cimitero di Staglieno is a true city of the dead: neoclassical arcades and marble stairs lead to the pantheon surrounded by tombs and cypresses. One of the more sentimental stories in this cemetery relates to a statue on the grave of Caterina Campdonico. She has been selling nuts all her life, and spent all her savings on immortalizing her character. There is a poem below that tells about it, like Caterina was selling nuts and in the sun, and in the rain, in order to earn a living and be able to pass on my image to future generations.
Evelyn Waugh called Staglieno "a museum of middle-class art from the mid-nineteenth century", but the newcomers take with them, above all, the memory of the melancholic atmosphere of this place. It still serves as an important Genoese cemetery and people come here, to visit and clean the graves of family and friends. A bus runs here # 34 z Piazza Annunziata l or Piazza Corvetto, and buses # 14, # 48 and # 50 ze Brignole Station.