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Genoa is an interesting, vibrant city that deserves longer than the 1.25 days we had for it. Nonetheless, we did our best to see the sights.
Luckily our apartment was just steps from the Piazza de Ferrari, where there are no sports cars, (sorry Julia and Henry) just a big fountain...
and some grand buildings
As well as a lot of people - Italians and tourists - hanging out. This was the first place in six weeks that we have heard a lot of American English.
And look what else they have... the public art experience du jour/di giorno
And a jazz club that we steered clear of.
On the other side of our place was the medieval town, the largest in Italy, with old buildings and narrow streets. We are amazed at how tall they could build back in the 15th and 16th centuries - these were six story buildings. Occasionally you see a peek of a piazza and something grand down the alley.
In this case, the beautiful San Lorenzo church.
Come on Arah, put a little muscle into it!
In the evening, we went out for a stroll and happened upon the Porta Soprana, the last remaining gate to the City from the Middle Ages.
From there we found ourselves in hipster restaurant row, and event settled on a cozy place called e Prie Rosse. It was good, but expensive, like a lot of the food we've found on this trip-- we miss the simple pasta, insalata mista and vino della casa dinners of Umbria.
But we choked down two yummy salads (not pictured), freeform lasagna with pesto for A
And maccheroni with ragu for E
Afterwards we strolled back through the gate
To wrap up the evening with some gelato. Thanks to our reader for reminding us to note the flavors. This is liquorice and crema for Eric and coffee and dark chocolate for Arah. (Last one was E: pear and lemon, A: raspberry and passion fruit.)
The next day we hit the Palazzi - starting with the Palazzo Rosso, which is basically a cherub museum.
Just kidding. But it is a grand palace of a certain era. An era that reminds us of the Velvet Palace when we bought it.
There's a nice statue of Genoa's home town boy Chris Columbus
And an excellent 500 year old Flemish painting of a detailed winter sports scene, including people curling!
And boys being boys...
The Palazzo Bianco, the sister palace/museum has two of Paganini's violins.
And a startled horse from the old chapel on site
You can climb to the tippy top of Rosso on a definitely-not-attorney-approved staircase to see a view of the city
and its massive port.
We did not stop at this hamburgers on top of hamburgers place for lunch. Instead we ate leftover pizza from our first night.
Then we headed off to the Maritime Museum, which celebrates 2000 years of Genoa's port history with some unusual exhibitions.
After another long stroll home we were pooped, so we had home cooking in the apartment.
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