Map of Liguria Italy Provinces and Cities [5124]
A map and travel guide to Liguria, showing the popular places to go on the Italian Riviera, from Genoa to the Cinque Terre.
Genoa City of Art, Culture and Great Food [1735]
After decades of decline in the 20th century Genoa, Mediterranean port full of character, has rebounded from the days when it was a rust-belt wreck full of highly polluting heavy industrial plants.
The city has rarely been more prosperous, cleaner, and more appealing.
Pandolce sweet bread [162]
Pandolce, the Ligurian dessert cake, is found from the Cinque Terre near Tuscany, to Genoa, and all the way to Ventimiglia on the border with France. Ligurians call pandolce “pandöçe” in their challenging, tongue-dislocating dialect.
Genoa: Monthly Regional Food Market [460]
Genoa is one of the great food cities of Italy, and now it has begun hosting a monthly artisanal specialty food market featuring local Ligurian products and those of the many regions of Italy. You’ll find everything from Ligurian basil to taralli savory biscuits from Puglia, plus cheese and mortadella from Emilia, and porchetta (spit-roasted pork) from central Italy.
Christopher Columbus and Genoa [1483]
Every Day is Columbus Day in Liguria. Columbus was from Genoa.
Columbus’s journey was a feat of navigation, a demonstration not only of foolhardy confidence – the intrepid sea captain was sailing in the wrong direction, after all, if he hoped to reach India – but also of fearless entrepreneurialism. The goal was to find a short, safe passage toward riches.
