La Piazza del Amor Perfetto
by KristaB
Our feet eagerly dancing, tiptoeing, stomping ... Is it here?
Piazza del Amor Perfetto?
It is a generous thing to ask for direction.
Smile back. Share a secret.
Narrow alleys so perfect for getting lost.
Fresh laundry waving and cheering!
It was the time of soft shadows.
So we found it, that Square of Perfect Love.
Soft front doors with paint gently crumbling, eyelids closed with shutters, blushing façades.
Next time I'll have to search again.
It is not easy to find Piazza del Amor Perfetto.
The cathedral of San Lorenzo
by sim1
It's a week later, and I am back in Genoa. The weather was boring though.... rain, rain and more rain. But we tried to see some of Genoa despite of the weather. Unfortunately we only had a few hours to explore Genoa, not very much time to visit this huge city. Normally I would do a citywalk to get a good impression, but because of the weather we decided to visit the Cathedral and after that the aquarium.
The Cathedral was great, wow, so impressive! It is huge from the outside, hahaha, so huge even that it is very hard to take a 'normal' picture of it. Either the cathedral is too big, or the square is too small. What ever way you look at it, the two seem to be out of proportion. This photo was made by the digital camera. I also made a few pictures with my SLR camera, hahaha, but of course they aren't developed yet! You have to be a bit more patient to see those.
Local Dialect- To Shush and To Shorb
by giampiero6
The local dialect of Genoa (Zena) is most interesting. Coincidentally, Genoese is spoken in 2 towns in Sardinia, one of which is Calasetta, so i grew up speaking a little Genoese. In Genoa, as in all of Italy, the local dialect is the very much the local flavor and the life blood of the local culture. Increasingly and awfully the local dialects are being lost as children are often no longer taught dialect (or discouraged from it for class reasons) and as their consciousness is increasingly formed by TV and other mass media. I consider it a tremendous loss. Growing up, some of my richest experiences was hearing the old old dialects in Sardinia (Sardinian and Tabarkino Genoese) and in the Trentino. Some of my greatest amusement was jokingly translating between homely dialect to made up English words. For example..my friends in Sardinia would sometimes greet me with, "The Spiag is super-affolated." That's why I loved this shirt which jokingly translates a Genoese saying into mock English. (the joke here is to hear your homely hometown dialect expressed as international english.) This means something like 'you can't have you cake and eat it too.'
the habour area
by sylina
The port of Genoa is the No.1 in Northern Italy.. more of industrial speaking.. the Habour area is a lovely place to spend sometime on a sunny afternoon.. be aware of Italian shops are normally closed in afternoon, from 1 to 3 o'clock. We found it was so in the old town area.. all the shops were shut down... except for some cafes or restaurants.. It was nice to spend these hours instead to hang around in the habour area .. nice view of the sea and hillside backwards...
Going around...
by Carletto76
The best way to go around Genova is to WALK, no other choices! Most of the old town is a pedestrian only zone, while the rest of the town is usually crowded with cars and scooters, and it's almost impossible to find a free parking (almost all the city centre is reserved to inhabitants for parking during the daytime), while public parkings are quite expensive.
There are many buses riding along the principal streets of Genova, the ticket costs 1 euro for 90 minutes and you can use it also for the Underground (M signs) and some local trains.
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a view from the hill
Up the hill behind the Train Station
Cranes
