What to see in Genoa

St. Lawrence's Treasury Museum

Former Church of Sant'Agostino

Palazzo Antonio Doria Spinola (Prefecture)

Best known to the Genoese as Palazzo Doria Spinola, this beautiful 16th-century mansion was built close the no-longer existing Acquasola city gate for Admiral Antonio Doria - a relative of Andrea Doria and a strategist to the Spanish Crown...

Walls of the city

Gate of the Cows

Abbey of St. Stephen

This Romanesque grey-and-white-striped church stands out from the centrally located Via XX Settembre, above the porticoes next to the bridge known as Ponte Monumentale. Tradition has it that Christopher Columbus was baptised here in 1451, as his...

Church of Santa Maria di Castello

Halfway up the Castello hill, not very far away from the Old Wharf (Molo Vecchio) is one of the city’s most ancient sites. Proof of the 26 centuries of Genoese history lay buried beneath our feet, starting from the times when the Ligurian tribes...

Biosphere

There is a 20-metre diameter steel and glass “bubble” right next to the Aquarium that looks like it is floating in the waters of the Old Harbour area.
A tiny microcosm of exotic wildlife, this miniature jungle is home to a complex set of...

Museum of Natural History Giacomo Doria

The Natural History Museum is a scientific institution of international renown for the width and breadth of its exhibits. Indeed, the museum is home to 4.5 million specimens from all over the world, mostly zoology collections, though there are...

Basilica of San Siro

When this part of today’s old town centre used to be the ‘Burgus’, meaning scarcely inhabited countryside, close to the beach and outside the town walls, there was a church here, devoted to the Twelve Apostles. Its name was changed to San Siro...

Museum of the Risorgimento - Institute Mazziniano - House of Giuseppe Mazzini

The Museum dedicated to the Risorgimento, Italy’s struggle for freedom, independence and unity in the 19th century, is located inside the birth place of Giuseppe Mazzini. It houses and displays a vast heritage of historical and artistic...

Museum of Santa Maria di Castello

Victory Square

Villa Brignole Sale Duchess Galliera

Merchants' Loggia - Piazza Banchi

Originally used as a corn market, in 1186 this square stood just outside the 10th-century round of town walls, beyond the Town Gate of San Pietro, which stood where the archway leading through to the tiny square Piazza Cinque Lampadi now is....

Historical Barber Shop Giacalone

Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Carignano

With its bell towers and dome, this church inevitably comes into all the city views, as the hill atop which it was built is almost in the centre of Genoa, equally distant from the medieval walls and the 20th-century skyscrapers. This is one of...

Palazzo Tursi Museum

Via Balbi

Carlo Felice Theater

Casa del Boia

The Executioner's house, also called the house of Agrippa, is a building in the historic center of Genoa, dating from the eleventh or the twelfth century, situated in the district of Molo , at the eastern end of the Piazza Cavour, opposite the...

Righi - Belvedere above the funicular

Embriaci Tower

Pegli Promenade

Church of Santa Maria delle Vigne

This basilica’s 1000th birthday has both been and gone. What we see today is a Baroque masterpiece, with its majestic neoclassical façade opening onto one of the most beautiful squares in the old town centre, home to 17th and 18th century works...

Caravel staircase

Via Prè

Palazzo Gerolamo Grimaldi (or Meridiana)

Built in 1536 for Gerolamo Grimaldi Oliva, a banker and trader with financial interests in Portugal and Spain, Palazzo Grimaldi della Meridiana is one of the early and most significant examples of the architectural renovation that took place in...

Cloister of Sant'Andrea

Luzzati Museum - Siberian Gate

Porta Siberia is the only gate within the 16th century round of town walls that is still standing and owes its name to a mispronunciation of the original Porta Cibaria, so called because it was used as a storage place for the city’s food...

Church of San Luca

Half way down Via San Luca, a lively, multi-ethnic and historical alley that formed an important part of the long medieval lane that crossed the whole city (vicolo lungo), is a small square that also serves as parvis to the small church of Saint...

Matitone - Directional Center San Benigno

Park of Villetta Di Negro

Hotel of the Poor

Madonnetta Sanctuary

Palazzo Balbi Senarega

Palazzo Giacomo Spinola

Imperial Villa of Terralba

Villa Imperiale is one of the oldest and most prestigious villas with parks in the Genoese Renaissance style. Located in the popular San Fruttuoso neighborhood, on the east side of the historic center, it is owned by the municipality and is used,...

Piazza delle Erbe

This small square with a decidedly Parisian atmosphere opens up among the ancient houses in the old city centre, where the Roman town of Genua is believed to have had its forum. Later on, Piazza delle Erbe was used as a fruit and vegetable...

Urban Park of the Walls

Genoa is like a theatre built around the Old Harbour bay and framed at the top by the Parco delle Mura, a park encompassing the old city walls. The ridge between the Polcevera and the Bisagno Valleys is a wild, natural and fascinating environment...