In the maze of shapes, colors and fragrances that this city has to offer for centuries, you can lose one of its most hidden corners accompanied by the sweet notes of the music of the sea
is a city that reveals plan plan. It's a city issue, unusual shapes and dazzling colors. It is a fascinating city that never ceases to amaze even those who live more than thirty years. Genoa, old but still superb woman who was shaken by the piggyback light dust that covered and hid just a disarming beauty.
is long past the period of its industrial value, are far too clamor that accompanied the giants of the sea that sailed from here to bring hundreds of thousands of souls around the world today, Genoa lives a new life, fueled by a growing number of tourists who are slowly rediscovering. Yes, because there is no doubt that by now the capital of Liguria is in effect a tourist town, no longer a hybrid of industrial progress and secular history, but a true testimony of what was projected in its rich past and a promising future. His second spring owes much to celebrate completion of the aquarium, the reconquest of his water-front to renovations for the much-discussed G8 and interventions for its office of European Capital of Culture, who in 2004 shared with Lille.
But behind the captivating spectacle of its most visited monuments there is much more evocative corners so as to be almost indescribable, whose strength is not so much to hit the first fleeting eye contact, but to be able to hypnotize if you allow a few moments more. So, that losing can happen (and believe me, it's easy to happen not only in the literal sense) between the intricate streets of his immense historical center, and turning his gaze upward, you find that you like sloping roofs and quaint little drawing profiles against the azure sky. Straining your ears often you will be accompanied by the mournful notes of any singer who will never stop telling his stories forbidden love, life and death. The goldsmiths, potters, antique shops and small delicacies will tempt you to enter and discover their world. The prospects for change at every corner and surprises cheer.
The contrasts are strong, the asymmetries complicated, and in some parts of the city, the centuries chase at a glance: medieval abbeys and palaces are mirrored in the tangle of glass and shiny metal, symbolizing the ephemeral attractiveness of our times.
is a multiethnic city, Genoa, it is always was. Its streets are a splash of vitality in every color. It is inevitable for a major sea port that can be summarized in a few hundred meters deep and eclectic as the essence of the whole Mediterranean here, where the smell of the salt mixes with the scents of the Orient, you can steal in any expression, in its cuisine, its culture, art, music, people.
spaces have always been valuable, for sure because I've always been few. These are people used to use every resource of the minimum area to fish in a sea insidious and deep, almost vertical to grow on land and jealously guarded their wealth, narrow between the mountains and the sea. Can not be called greedy, maybe a little ' shy and surly, but especially heroic. All his children, poets and navigators, architects and musicians, saints and murderers ...
One of the most spectacular views you may have, for a moment leaving the beaten tourist track and turning its hinterland. No need to stray too far, just take a funicular to reach the city limits, on the hills that dominate, very close to the fortified sentinels that protect and enjoy the flickering lights at dusk, counting the seconds of darkness, alternating light signals to the powerful lantern, breathe and deeply imbued with the light touch of the sirocco.
David Battaglia, November 2004
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