Era l importatore Francese che importò il tessuto negli stati Uniti che era di Nimes. Il tessuto fu inventato dai Genovesi in epoca remota per avere vele più resistenti. Usato per fare vestiti , non solo i pantaloni ma anche la camicia dai Camalli ( scaricatori di porto) . I pantaloni blu e la camicia rossa di Garibaldi erano in jeans. Resi famosi da Levis Strauss che capì la forza del tessuto migliorandone la resistenza con i famosi rivetti agli angoli delle cuciture.
I love how you give a real glimpse of how it actually feels like to live in Genova and not only the turistic spots, like many creators do. This is the kind of travel I love!
I live in Savona, 50 km from Genoa. I recommend you visit the Ancient Port, the Aquarium, Palazzi dei Rolli (UNESCO heritage) and Boccadasse. In the morning you can have breakfast with cappuccino and the typical Focaccia, normal or with onions. For lunch try pasta with the typical "Genoese Pesto". Also try the delicious Focaccia di Recco, Farinata and Panissa. A few centuries ago, Genoa was the richest city in the world, home to the first bank in the world, the "Banco di San Giorgio". For this reason the palaces and churches are sumptuous. P.S.: if you want to be integrated in Genoa and Liguria, you have to use the typical Ligurian intercalary "Belìn", and you have to use it at least once every 5 or 6 words. I won't translate the meaning for you 😂
Hey dude, a lot of work to do, but I try! 8:40 - Chiesa di Santa Maria in Passione - Heavily bombed during World War II 11:48 - Giardini Luzzati - The gardens are named after a famous genoese set designer and illustrator - A lot of cultural activities and social events in that area. 13:36 - Genoa has a population of approximately 560.000 inhabitants. The city stretches along the coast for about 30 kilometers. 20:37 - Temporary exibition of a famous Italian French sculptor . 27:07 - Chiesa di Santo Stefano. It's a middle age Church. It was destroyed during the World War II and rebuild after the war (like a giant puzzle). 37:54 - The former stock exchange of Genova. Now there are offices and a site for exhibition and conferences 38:50 - It isn't a pizza but "foccacia al formaggio". A stuffed foccacia bread with cheese (no mozzarella). Typical Liguria dish. 44:00 - Chocolate factory founded in 1866. 55:33 - "Murette" - "littles walls" - a part of the medieval city walls. 58:00 - The plaque honors a man who generously donated to the city in the 1870s to put up the railings on the bridge. The railings were installed to improve safety and deter people from committing suicide by jumping. 1:01:00 - Carignano Church - It was built during the 16th century . In Genoa there is a saying that goes (more or less) "It's a never-ending story, like building the Carignano Church". The construction was so long and expensive … 1:11:25 - The statue commemorates Raffaele De Ferrari, a wealthy Genoese businessman who gave a ton of money to the city in the late 19th century for the modernization of the port. The square at 20:30 is named after him. 1:18:26 - MMXI = 2011 Nice video! I like it. I hope you enjoy reading these notes
Hello, I’m from Genoa and that’s the way to discover it… just walking a get lost! You lose some very nice street and building and the harbor but it’s normal.
@@ConnerSully in 47:45 at the right side of the scene you didn't get a glimpse of it (except briefly later) but there is the house of Christopher Columbus who was born in Genoa
Thank you for coming to Genova, my adopted city. I arrived as a newly wed from England over 60 years ago. You went around some "vicoli", old town streets that even I have never been down! Never knew exactly where Teatro della Tosse was! Now , thanks to you, I do!❤
I'm from a village in the countryside of this region and I love to see foreigners amazed at my favorite city, the most beautiful and chaotic place in Europe
47:00 was not a 'Castle' but the door of the town (porta soprana) and the walls of the ancient Genova (built to protect the town) and exactly behind you was the house of Christopher Colombus just near the 'castle'.
Even if I'm Italian I've only been to Genoa 4 or 5 times, always passing through, a bit in a hurry...thanks to your video I discovered very interesting aspects of this city, I think it's worth getting to know it a little better with all the calm it deserves!
21:10 you have to think that Italy is older than all the West. Architecturally, it's the other European cities that have been inspired by the Italian ones. The EU capitals, were founded by the Romans.Many arch styles are based on the architecture of ancient Rome, especially the styles born between 800 and early 900. Obviously then there are styles that each EU city has acquired by her own. The sense is that, Italian architecture is not inspired by others, but the opposite.
It's not totally true. You have to consider at least the area around the land and sea borders as influencing (think about Greek, Moresque, Austrian, French, Byzantine), and also the modern era (which starts by the 1800) when archicture started to flourish everywhere in Europe with peculiar features shared by all around the core of Europe. But yes, Italy never missed a thing, you can find inthere the majority of artistic trends and architectural skills. Just think at the architecture style of two great maritime powerhosues: it's not a coincidence if Genoa is more western mediterranean (in someway spanish/French/portuguese like he said in the video) and Venice is more middle eastern Mediterranean with austro-hungarian similarities. Please, don't be so unnecessarily arrogant
The beginning of the video with the creative parking means you already in the city mood 😁 To see Genova you need around 3 full days and one scooter at least for one of the day. But you really make a solid short video. Thank you so much.. I'm not back Genoa, my hometown, since 11 March 2020... Never been away for so long. I'll try to come back in 2025.
I live near Genova, mate you have to try something typical to eat, focaccia, (normal classic, with onions, or the Recco focaccia with cheese), trofie with pesto, get advice in a typical trattoria, you have to visit the part of Genoa towards the north, near to the sea Corso Italia and Boccadasse and off course "Porto Antico" zone and Aquarium.
I saw you have a Mark Twain quote on your profile. Mark Twain also visited Genoa and fell in love with it. I'll leave you below what he wrote about this city. "Here we rest for the present--or rather, here we have been trying to rest, for some little time, but we run about too much to accomplish a great deal in that line. I would like to remain here. I had rather not go any further. There may be prettier women in Europe, but I doubt it. The population of Genoa is 120,000; two-thirds of these are women, I think, and at least two-thirds of the women are beautiful. They are as dressy and as tasteful and as graceful as they could possibly be without being angels. However, angels are not very dressy, I believe. At least the angels in pictures are not --they wear nothing but wings. But these Genoese women do look so charming. Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. They are very fair, and many of them have blue eyes, but black and dreamy dark brown ones are met with oftenest. The ladies and gentlemen of Genoa have a pleasant fashion of promenading in a large park on the top of a hill in the center of the city, from six till nine in the evening, and then eating ices in a neighboring garden an hour or two longer. We went to the park on Sunday evening. Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes. The multitude moved round and round the park in a great procession. The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. I scanned every female face that passed, and it seemed to me that all were handsome. I never saw such a freshet of loveliness before. I did not see how a man of only ordinary decision of character could marry here, because before he could get his mind made up he would fall in love with somebody else." (Mark Twain)
I'm from Sardinia, we've lot in common with people from Genoa. I've been there often,I love Genova. The historical centre is the biggest in Europe.. You get lost inside. Food is amazing. Hope I'll be back soon. Such a pearl Genova is. Saluti❤
Che quella sia la casa natia (ne ho vista una piccolissima e mi è stato detto che è quella) di Colombo è in discussione., come lo è la casa di Giulietta a Verona
You missed the Cathedral, and much of the historic center... and the entire tourist area of the ancient port. At 47.50 you were in front of Christoforus Colombus' house... funny that you didn't notice.
È una fogna, sembra un capannone industriale all'aperto con aggiunta di maranza e ne*ri che creano problemi di sicurezza non da poco. Poi la demografia... mamma mia, la + anziana d'Europa.
M = 1 thous. / D = 5 hundred / C = 1 hundred / L = 50 / X = 10 / V= 5 / I = 1. So, if you want to write 2024 it will be MMXXIV (if you put a lesser value symbol before the larger one, you must subtract it, i.e. IV is 4 [5 -1] XL is 40 [50-10] and so on)
Nice video and it's always good to see someone who comes from abroad to review Genoa. Indeed, we are too often overlooked by the main tourist routes. The only criticism I feel is related to the fact that this interesting walk has only interested a little part the city center. Genoa is 20 Km long (West-East) and almost every neighborhood has its own ancient churches, historic palaces and villas, parks, etc. The various Genoese neighborhoods were nineteen independent municipalities, of different sizes and development, until 1926, when they were unified with the central (and biggest) one. Excluding the fishing settlements along the entire coast, the area around the 50th minute of your video probably hosted the original nucleus of the pre-Roman city, of which no trace is visible anymore. However, despite having passed almost a century, the vast majority of tourist guides / television documentaries / the institutional tourist promotion, seem to be interested only in what is present in the cental area, where there was the "historical" (central) Genoa, neglecting the more decentralized districts like Sestri, Pegli, Nervi, etc so unfortunately it's a generalized problem. If you were to return, I would like to recommend the "Villa Duchessa di Galliera" in Voltri with its large historical park, the "Parco Villa Durazzo Pallavicini" in Pegli (unfortunately this isn't free), the "Sanctuary of Nostra Signora del Monte Gazzo" above the neighborhood of Sestri Ponente, from which you can see a panorama that sweeps for a good part of the west ligurian coast, and the "Anita Garibaldi promenade" in the Nervi district, with its parks and art museums.
Wow, I had never seen it! Thank you! As a child i often went to Sestri Levante and Alassio (I recommend you visit Alassio, near Genoa) it is likely that my parents also showed me Genoa but i have no memory of it. It's so different from Milan and Bolzano... And also quite different from Trieste, Florence, Siena, Rome, Costa Smeralda etc. Italy always seems different from itself with some elements in common. It's different not only architecturally but also in terms of atmosphere, every time it's a surprise. I was born and raised in Switzerland and i decided to study in Milan, Italy is insanely beautiful!
Wow...well impressed. I live here in the historical centre. You came close to my home twice but you didn't reach it. It's s pity it is placed in one on the most interesting little square in Genova.Maybe next time 🤗
At the beginning of the video you climbed "Mura delle Grazie". Until the early twentieth century the sea lapped the walls and there was a rock called "Scoglio campana", because it resembled the shape of a bell, to which a poem was dedicated in its memory.
As Italian, living in Liguria (Genova's region) I loved how you explored a little part of the city! The Mediterranean sea is what you watched not the Ocean 😊❤
that was the house of Cristoforo Colombo at 47:21, Genoa is beautiful, I live there. The Nervi promenade (a walk along the sea) and the Boccadasse beach are also beautiful to visit!
You are welcome to come visit Trieste, I would love to see a video about your point of view in my beautiful city. Similar to Genova as far as coastal scenery but a much smaller city with influence from austrian and eastern european cultures!
hey hey thank you for visiting my city! it seems like you had a lot of fun and i liked it! the building were you start and finish the video was my mom's work place for 40 years, and every morning she went trough those street exactly were you had your van, as you ca see it isnt the most safe place to go trought as a pedestrian 😅😵💫...hope you loved Genoa!!
Hello, I'm from Genoa , near center of the City, thank you for this video, It's so fascinating despite I already know any single little street, I want to suggest one thing , the title on one segment of the video "the old castle" , it was not a real castle but the ancient gate of the ancient City , on bottom you can see the ancient house of Cristoforo Colombo.
Hii i cannot wait for go to America,your Nation is so beautiful maybe is the one best in all world and i can wait of discover new beautiful places one big greet to soon😉🇺🇲
36:14 i tink your friend said "oh, madonna" or "oh, mado'"(which is the short version). It's a curse/invocation of the holy Mary. We use it a lot. Along whit other curses
The thing you saw backing was "focaccia di recco". it's not quite like pizza and it is typical from recco (a little town close to Genova). The cheese inside is crescenza which is stracchino (a sour, creamy fresh cheese) with less rennet (? google translate said this).
I'm italian, never been there, thanks to this video i'm way more interested now in visit Genova, the city looks like a maze. Ubisoft could create an entire serie of assassin's creed staged here. Thanks a lot.
Mi spiace che non hai visto la parte storica più bella della città,la Cattedrale di San Lorenzo,il Palazzo Ducale e Via Garibaldi con i palazzo nobiliari.Poi c'è anche l area del Porto Antico con l Acquario uno dei più grandi d Europa
I live here, In the end of the video you were running in the mouth of Cops where you found the locked gate ahahah, and there was the signal that pedestrians can't walk there but just cars. I'm hapy you liked our city but feel more free to ask informations to local people that can be precise on what are you looking at; and rememeber that Genoa is 10 years under far right government because of mafious politicians and it's becoming more and more grey and empty, before it was better. Now Liguria is the highest italian region for young and not young emigrations. Good luck and a hug, contact if you need Couchsurfing again or visiting :))
Welcome to my city! 🥰 Historically, every street has an incredible story, from Dante Alighieri to the cathedral (San Lorenzo), where the Holy Grail is believed to be kept-the plate used by Christ to eat the Passover lamb with his disciples during the Last Supper. It is an artifact made in ancient Syria, most likely around the 1st century AD (though its dating is debated), and according to most sources, it was brought to Genoa by Guglielmo Embriaco following the conquest of Caesarea in 1101, during the First Crusade. Then there’s the house of Christopher Columbus, the city where banks, jeans, and pesto were invented, and not least, the flag of Genoa was rented to England, which still uses it as its national flag today. This is because Genoese fleets were the most powerful in the world, to the point where they were the only ones not attacked by pirates. This was not the case for other fleets, including the English ones. So, the English asked to use the Genoese flag on their ships to keep the pirates away. This is just 1% of the things to see in Genoa, sorry for going on 😊
Have you been to the church above Via XX Settembre, the Church of Santo Stefano, where there is a crypt that you can visit? Inside, there's a marble basin where Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, was baptized.
Buongiorno, ma quella non era la cattedrale? Sono stata a Ge Nova molti anni fa e ricordo che in cattedrale c’era esposta una bomba dell’ultima guerra non esplosa, cadendo aveva colpito solo una parete laterale e questo era stato considerato quasi un miracolo . Non c’è più? Non sono riuscita a vederla
35:55 INFO TIIIIME She said "oh Madonna". Southerners warped it into "oh Maronn", which is what you used to hear. Madonna (-> Mia + Donna) literally means My Woman / My Lady, but here refers to the Virgin Mary. Yes, like the singer Madonna, who has Italian origins.
I am quite sure without Colombo somebody else would have arrived there (and maybe not slaughtered thousands of people). Beside the fact that people already lived in the New World since 30-40k years and most likely Vikings arrived there before Colombo.
Are you gonna visit switzerland? I would reccomend St. Gallen its near the border to austria, ticino is also beautiful but basicaly like a very small italy
Figata questo, video. Penso che nessuno abbia mai raccontato Genova in questo modo. 👍 Edit: ma sei andato sull'altare? Non si può andare sull'altare. 😂 MMXI significa: 2011. (4 Luglio 2011) Per voi che fate le cose al contrario: July 4, 2011.
non si può nemmeno camminare davanti alla gente che prega, per passare da una navata laterale all'altra bisognerebbe tornare in dietro ed attraversare, ma lui non lo sapeva ed ha tagliato bellamente il contatto tra i preganti e l'altare centrale LOL
Boccadasse and Corso Italia are the best part of Genoa: that's nonsense, these are places for tourists. Mr Sullivan point view is mine. He understood where Genoa's heart beats. Fyi, I'm born and bred in Genoa.
Dude, you cannot visit Genova and do not walk around the "vicoli" (carruggi) ... just make the walk from Piazza de Ferrari down to the old harbour. (porto antico)... And to eat like the locals I advice the "Trattoria Baciccia" for lunch, or the Tortuga to eat fantastic focaccia al formaggio... (cheese focaccia). For something very good but not local I would also try the Tiflis, especially if you like meat ...
Wow... premetto che sono ligure, ho visto Genova decine di volte, ma guardandoti ho scoperto posti nuovi, grazie! ...però due o tre cose te le devo dire : Qua, in Italia puoi entrare in tutti i negozi come e quando vuoi, senza chiedere il permesso... certo 5 minuti prima della chiusura, non è molto apprezzato! D'altra parte, in una Chiesa non puoi entrare nelle sacrestia!....a meno che non sei un " addetto si lavori" ( prete, sacrestano, perpetua o chierichetto) Ovviamente, già che c'eri... perché non visitare la casa di Cristoforo Colombo? E ultimo, ma non ultimo, perché forse è il più importante...OCEANO? Sicuramente avrai fatto un bagno nell'oceano, ma probabilmente non lo hai mai fatto in un MARE.. Il nostro è il Mar Ligure, che a sua volta è dentro il Mar Mediterraneo.... fallo e capirai subito la differenza 😊 Poi per il resto sei un grande... è bello vedere la tua emozione mentre ti perdi per i nostri vicoletti e rimani edterfatto nel vedere chiese e dipinti come se fossero create dal Brunelleschi o Michelangelo! La Liguria è tutta bella da vedere, da Levante a Ponente! ❤️
I am from Genoa, (I try to use A.I. for translate my italian trying to correct some thing by miself) I'm sorry for all the defacement of the city with unsightly and disrespectful graffiti. If you go to other areas of the city, you will also see it defaced by the graffiti of the thughs of the two local football teams (even on the mountains and the coast, they sometimes raise flags, often failing miserably in the attempt). The city is now held hostage by these disrespectful rodents. This city does nothing to remedy this mess, which has reached incredible levels in recent years. These scribbles are not art! I recently visited the beautiful Seville, and you can see very little graffiti there. What you thought was a castle is one of the gates of the city because in ancient times the city was surrounded by walls. At minute 48, you passed what some say was Christopher Columbus’s house (don’t look at the old kiosk because it was moved from another location in recent times). At minute 56, you walked on a part of the old walls that surrounded the city. Those structures are not fairy-tale castles; they are just ancient structures. Be careful how you park because that place is a trap; the traffic wardens can’t wait to give you a ticket. I’ve gotten at least three tickets in that place. On that cliff you call a precipice, there is the modern castle of the traffic wardens, and you parked in their kingdom. Don’t worry, apart from Rubens, Van Dyck, and a few others, all the artworks were made by students of this and that or others schools… who were quite good, by the way. As good, thrifty Genoese, we never lacked anything at modest prices but always kept everything intimate. We are not in Seville, where every noble house has parks open to everyone. Here, they are all surrounded by barbed wire, and if you enter, they shoot you with salt, and if they catch you riding a bicycle inside, they shoot at your tires too. Genoa is a continuous construction site and abandonment. The Sopraelevata is not a highway; it is just an elevated road where you can drive at 60 km/h, falling asleep along the way if it is not your first time traveling it. At minute 78, you are walking on another part of the ancient walls that once practically fell sheer into the sea. At minute 80, you were accessing the passport office, which was obviously closed.
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The english word "jeans" comes from Genoa, there was the name of the delivery Port on the boxes arrived in the US with fabric inside.
and DENIM = DE NÎMES (France)
Era l importatore Francese che importò il tessuto negli stati Uniti che era di Nimes. Il tessuto fu inventato dai Genovesi in epoca remota per avere vele più resistenti. Usato per fare vestiti , non solo i pantaloni ma anche la camicia dai Camalli ( scaricatori di porto) . I pantaloni blu e la camicia rossa di Garibaldi erano in jeans. Resi famosi da Levis Strauss che capì la forza del tessuto migliorandone la resistenza con i famosi rivetti agli angoli delle cuciture.
As an Italian, I'm so impressed! You made a full documentary, wow!
Anche io sono stato impressionato: neppure a Napoli ho visto tanti scarabocchi sui muri😢😢. Una vergogna.
@@CarloParise Purtroppo un vizio che abbiamo copiato dagli Yankees. Li hanno inventati loro.
@@CarloPariseVolevo dire la stessa cosa anch’io, che figura di m….
I love how you give a real glimpse of how it actually feels like to live in Genova and not only the turistic spots, like many creators do.
This is the kind of travel I love!
I live in Savona, 50 km from Genoa. I recommend you visit the Ancient Port, the Aquarium, Palazzi dei Rolli (UNESCO heritage) and Boccadasse. In the morning you can have breakfast with cappuccino and the typical Focaccia, normal or with onions. For lunch try pasta with the typical "Genoese Pesto". Also try the delicious Focaccia di Recco, Farinata and Panissa.
A few centuries ago, Genoa was the richest city in the world, home to the first bank in the world, the "Banco di San Giorgio". For this reason the palaces and churches are sumptuous.
P.S.: if you want to be integrated in Genoa and Liguria, you have to use the typical Ligurian intercalary "Belìn", and you have to use it at least once every 5 or 6 words. I won't translate the meaning for you 😂
belìn alua!
Belishimo ! A reveise alua ! Una fugassa al giorno...Ah ah
Hey dude, a lot of work to do, but I try!
8:40 - Chiesa di Santa Maria in Passione - Heavily bombed during World War II
11:48 - Giardini Luzzati - The gardens are named after a famous genoese set designer and illustrator - A lot of cultural activities and social events in that area.
13:36 - Genoa has a population of approximately 560.000 inhabitants. The city stretches along the coast for about 30 kilometers.
20:37 - Temporary exibition of a famous Italian French sculptor .
27:07 - Chiesa di Santo Stefano. It's a middle age Church. It was destroyed during the World War II and rebuild after the war (like a giant puzzle).
37:54 - The former stock exchange of Genova. Now there are offices and a site for exhibition and conferences
38:50 - It isn't a pizza but "foccacia al formaggio". A stuffed foccacia bread with cheese (no mozzarella). Typical Liguria dish.
44:00 - Chocolate factory founded in 1866.
55:33 - "Murette" - "littles walls" - a part of the medieval city walls.
58:00 - The plaque honors a man who generously donated to the city in the 1870s to put up the railings on the bridge. The railings were installed to improve safety and deter people from committing suicide by jumping.
1:01:00 - Carignano Church - It was built during the 16th century . In Genoa there is a saying that goes (more or less) "It's a never-ending story, like building the Carignano Church". The construction was so long and expensive …
1:11:25 - The statue commemorates Raffaele De Ferrari, a wealthy Genoese businessman who gave a ton of money to the city in the late 19th century for the modernization of the port. The square at 20:30 is named after him.
1:18:26 - MMXI = 2011
Nice video! I like it.
I hope you enjoy reading these notes
Thanks for these notes! I appreciate it now I can rewatch the video and learn more 🙏🙌
Thank you! Appreciated! I lived in Genoa 10 years as a child!
Hello, I’m from Genoa and that’s the way to discover it… just walking a get lost! You lose some very nice street and building and the harbor but it’s normal.
@@ConnerSully in 47:45 at the right side of the scene you didn't get a glimpse of it (except briefly later) but there is the house of Christopher Columbus who was born in Genoa
Thank you for coming to Genova, my adopted city. I arrived as a newly wed from England over 60 years ago. You went around some "vicoli", old town streets that even I have never been down! Never knew exactly where Teatro della Tosse was! Now , thanks to you, I do!❤
Sono di Genova e ti ringrazio per il bellissimo documentario...a presto 👏
La tua curiosita' nel voler scoprire , ha reso una grande bellezza e ammirazione la Città di Genova .Grazie di ❤️
I'm from a village in the countryside of this region and I love to see foreigners amazed at my favorite city, the most beautiful and chaotic place in Europe
47:00 was not a 'Castle' but the door of the town (porta soprana) and the walls of the ancient Genova (built to protect the town) and exactly behind you was the house of Christopher Colombus just near the 'castle'.
Even if I'm Italian I've only been to Genoa 4 or 5 times, always passing through, a bit in a hurry...thanks to your video I discovered very interesting aspects of this city, I think it's worth getting to know it a little better with all the calm it deserves!
È bellissimo vedere Genova da tutte le angolazioni, bravo 👏👏 ,questa città fa parte delle 4 Repubbliche Marinare, Genova, Venezia, Pisa e Amalfi
21:10 you have to think that Italy is older than all the West. Architecturally, it's the other European cities that have been inspired by the Italian ones. The EU capitals, were founded by the Romans.Many arch styles are based on the architecture of ancient Rome, especially the styles born between 800 and early 900.
Obviously then there are styles that each EU city has acquired by her own.
The sense is that, Italian architecture is not inspired by others, but the opposite.
It's not totally true. You have to consider at least the area around the land and sea borders as influencing (think about Greek, Moresque, Austrian, French, Byzantine), and also the modern era (which starts by the 1800) when archicture started to flourish everywhere in Europe with peculiar features shared by all around the core of Europe. But yes, Italy never missed a thing, you can find inthere the majority of artistic trends and architectural skills.
Just think at the architecture style of two great maritime powerhosues: it's not a coincidence if Genoa is more western mediterranean (in someway spanish/French/portuguese like he said in the video) and Venice is more middle eastern Mediterranean with austro-hungarian similarities.
Please, don't be so unnecessarily arrogant
@@giovannimoriggi5833non c'entra niente quello che hai detto😂😂,ha ragione lui
@@riccardosebis5333 ah ok, se argomenti così sicuramente gli dò ragione
Its true but many of the buildings in piazza de Ferrari are modern (from the 1750s-1850s) so the things in common from Paris come from there
The beginning of the video with the creative parking means you already in the city mood 😁
To see Genova you need around 3 full days and one scooter at least for one of the day.
But you really make a solid short video.
Thank you so much.. I'm not back Genoa, my hometown, since 11 March 2020... Never been away for so long.
I'll try to come back in 2025.
I live near Genova, mate you have to try something typical to eat, focaccia, (normal classic, with onions, or the Recco focaccia with cheese), trofie with pesto, get advice in a typical trattoria, you have to visit the part of Genoa towards the north, near to the sea Corso Italia and Boccadasse and off course "Porto Antico" zone and Aquarium.
I saw you have a Mark Twain quote on your profile. Mark Twain also visited Genoa and fell in love with it. I'll leave you below what he wrote about this city.
"Here we rest for the present--or rather, here we have been trying to rest, for some little time, but we run about too much to accomplish a great deal in that line.
I would like to remain here. I had rather not go any further. There may be prettier women in Europe, but I doubt it. The population of Genoa is 120,000; two-thirds of these are women, I think, and at least two-thirds of the women are beautiful. They are as dressy and as tasteful and as graceful as they could possibly be without being angels. However, angels are not very dressy, I believe. At least the angels in pictures are not --they wear nothing but wings. But these Genoese women do look so charming. Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. They are very fair, and many of them have blue eyes, but black and dreamy dark brown ones are met with oftenest.
The ladies and gentlemen of Genoa have a pleasant fashion of promenading in a large park on the top of a hill in the center of the city, from six till nine in the evening, and then eating ices in a neighboring garden an hour or two longer. We went to the park on Sunday evening. Two thousand persons were present, chiefly young ladies and gentlemen. The gentlemen were dressed in the very latest Paris fashions, and the robes of the ladies glinted among the trees like so many snowflakes. The multitude moved round and round the park in a great procession. The bands played, and so did the fountains; the moon and the gas lamps lit up the scene, and altogether it was a brilliant and an animated picture. I scanned every female face that passed, and it seemed to me that all were handsome. I never saw such a freshet of loveliness before. I did not see how a man of only ordinary decision of character could marry here, because before he could get his mind made up he would fall in love with somebody else."
(Mark Twain)
Beautiful
@@elleswan1 👍🏻
❤innocents abroad.
I'm from Sardinia, we've lot in common with people from Genoa. I've been there often,I love Genova. The historical centre is the biggest in Europe.. You get lost inside. Food is amazing. Hope I'll be back soon. Such a pearl Genova is.
Saluti❤
I'm from Genoa, I love this video❤
The guy working at the restaurant window and greeting you was making focaccia genovese which is filled with cheese, not pizza as you thought😅
Looked amazing! Gotta try one
Che quella sia la casa natia (ne ho vista una piccolissima e mi è stato detto che è quella) di Colombo è in discussione., come lo è la casa di Giulietta a Verona
@@SoniaGelli-y2o La casa di Giulietta non è nemmeno in discussione, è al 100% un falso di inizio '900.
Genoa is the most beautiful city in the world, it likes to hide, but when you know how to discover it, it is magical!
Very happy you liked my hometown and the city I love most in the world 🫶🏻
You missed the Cathedral, and much of the historic center... and the entire tourist area of the ancient port.
At 47.50 you were in front of Christoforus Colombus' house... funny that you didn't notice.
Genoa has a population of 560,000. It is also the city where Christopher Columbus was born.
Genova è bellissima , da italiano mi vergogno di non averla ancora visitata, ma presto lo farò
È una fogna, sembra un capannone industriale all'aperto con aggiunta di maranza e ne*ri che creano problemi di sicurezza non da poco. Poi la demografia... mamma mia, la + anziana d'Europa.
MMXI is the Roman numeral for the number 2011.
M = 1 thous. / D = 5 hundred / C = 1 hundred / L = 50 / X = 10 / V= 5 / I = 1.
So, if you want to write 2024 it will be MMXXIV (if you put a lesser value symbol before the larger one, you must subtract it, i.e. IV is 4 [5 -1] XL is 40 [50-10] and so on)
You visit only a small part of Genoa. Boccadasse, corso Italia is the best part.
Yes, that's a bit the problem if you do everything spontaneously only, without informing beforehand at all
I agree and I also recommend Righi.
There's a beautiful view of the whole city up there!
Sampierdarena as well :)
Nice video and it's always good to see someone who comes from abroad to review Genoa. Indeed, we are too often overlooked by the main tourist routes.
The only criticism I feel is related to the fact that this interesting walk has only interested a little part the city center.
Genoa is 20 Km long (West-East) and almost every neighborhood has its own ancient churches, historic palaces and villas, parks, etc. The various Genoese neighborhoods were nineteen independent municipalities, of different sizes and development, until 1926, when they were unified with the central (and biggest) one. Excluding the fishing settlements along the entire coast, the area around the 50th minute of your video probably hosted the original nucleus of the pre-Roman city, of which no trace is visible anymore.
However, despite having passed almost a century, the vast majority of tourist guides / television documentaries / the institutional tourist promotion, seem to be interested only in what is present in the cental area, where there was the "historical" (central) Genoa, neglecting the more decentralized districts like Sestri, Pegli, Nervi, etc so unfortunately it's a generalized problem.
If you were to return, I would like to recommend the "Villa Duchessa di Galliera" in Voltri with its large historical park, the "Parco Villa Durazzo Pallavicini" in Pegli (unfortunately this isn't free), the "Sanctuary of Nostra Signora del Monte Gazzo" above the neighborhood of Sestri Ponente, from which you can see a panorama that sweeps for a good part of the west ligurian coast, and the "Anita Garibaldi promenade" in the Nervi district, with its parks and art museums.
Those churches are amazing, absolutly fantastic
Thanks for visit my city! Great video!
Wow, I had never seen it! Thank you! As a child i often went to Sestri Levante and Alassio (I recommend you visit Alassio, near Genoa) it is likely that my parents also showed me Genoa but i have no memory of it. It's so different from Milan and Bolzano... And also quite different from Trieste, Florence, Siena, Rome, Costa Smeralda etc.
Italy always seems different from itself with some elements in common. It's different not only architecturally but also in terms of atmosphere, every time it's a surprise. I was born and raised in Switzerland and i decided to study in Milan, Italy is insanely beautiful!
Costa Smeralda😂😂😂😂 is not a city
@@riccardosebis5333 i know 👋
I'm from Genoa and I thank you for this video, Genova also called: La Superba
You are welcome! I really enjoyed my time there
Wow...well impressed. I live here in the historical centre. You came close to my home twice but you didn't reach it. It's s pity it is placed in one on the most interesting little square in Genova.Maybe next time 🤗
At the beginning of the video you climbed "Mura delle Grazie". Until the early twentieth century the sea lapped the walls and there was a rock called "Scoglio campana", because it resembled the shape of a bell, to which a poem was dedicated in its memory.
As Italian, living in Liguria (Genova's region) I loved how you explored a little part of the city! The Mediterranean sea is what you watched not the Ocean 😊❤
that was the house of Cristoforo Colombo at 47:21, Genoa is beautiful, I live there. The Nervi promenade (a walk along the sea) and the Boccadasse beach are also beautiful to visit!
I'm from Genoa, lovely video!
You are welcome to come visit Trieste, I would love to see a video about your point of view in my beautiful city. Similar to Genova as far as coastal scenery but a much smaller city with influence from austrian and eastern european cultures!
hey hey thank you for visiting my city! it seems like you had a lot of fun and i liked it! the building were you start and finish the video was my mom's work place for 40 years, and every morning she went trough those street exactly were you had your van, as you ca see it isnt the most safe place to go trought as a pedestrian 😅😵💫...hope you loved Genoa!!
Thank You❤
Hello, I'm from Genoa , near center of the City, thank you for this video, It's so fascinating despite I already know any single little street, I want to suggest one thing , the title on one segment of the video "the old castle" , it was not a real castle but the ancient gate of the ancient City , on bottom you can see the ancient house of Cristoforo Colombo.
Welcome to Genova, I hope you had a good time. 😊
You don't kwow Genova. I can esplain you every stone. In the last church there are two Rubens. Ecc. My Town Is a mistery
Great job from an italian, have a nice day😊
Hii i cannot wait for go to America,your Nation is so beautiful maybe is the one best in all world and i can wait of discover new beautiful places one big greet to soon😉🇺🇲
The flag of England come from Genoa
What a nice vid 😊 TY
Beautiful video!
It's a shame that today they woke up under a water bomb. There was a flood in Sori, less than half an hour from Genoa!
Welcome to my hometown!
I spent a lot of hours in Feltrinelli in Genova!
Took inspiration from my italian friend here. Car removed. lol
36:14 i tink your friend said "oh, madonna" or "oh, mado'"(which is the short version). It's a curse/invocation of the holy Mary.
We use it a lot. Along whit other curses
It's not really a curse...it is more of an exclamation of surprise or emphasis....
The thing you saw backing was "focaccia di recco". it's not quite like pizza and it is typical from recco (a little town close to Genova). The cheese inside is crescenza which is stracchino (a sour, creamy fresh cheese) with less
rennet (? google translate said this).
Genova, the city when I lost my heart. 💔
Welcome to Genoa 😊
Do Venice! You'll love it.
If you love little alleys you must visit Edinburgh - another beautiful historic city. In Scotland alleys are called “closes”.
Nice Video and Tour, glad to see my city with your eyes, but now go home, thanks. 😅
I left already lol but id love to come back and see more one day :)
It is amazing the fantastic food in Genoa, I reccomend the restaurant not far from theatre Carlo Felica, "La Lurida".
I'm italian, never been there, thanks to this video i'm way more interested now in visit Genova, the city looks like a maze. Ubisoft could create an entire serie of assassin's creed staged here. Thanks a lot.
Mi spiace che non hai visto la parte storica più bella della città,la Cattedrale di San Lorenzo,il Palazzo Ducale e Via Garibaldi con i palazzo nobiliari.Poi c'è anche l area del Porto Antico con l Acquario uno dei più grandi d Europa
MMXI is roman number , it is 2011. Thanks for visiting my region!
What kind of gimbal? I took the Auochan($50) gimbal to Nice, FR a week ago. Perfect.
I live here, In the end of the video you were running in the mouth of Cops where you found the locked gate ahahah, and there was the signal that pedestrians can't walk there but just cars. I'm hapy you liked our city but feel more free to ask informations to local people that can be precise on what are you looking at; and rememeber that Genoa is 10 years under far right government because of mafious politicians and it's becoming more and more grey and empty, before it was better. Now Liguria is the highest italian region for young and not young emigrations. Good luck and a hug, contact if you need Couchsurfing again or visiting :))
oh Marron!!! i think it's Oh Madonna....in south Italy they say Maronna...
Welcome to my city! 🥰 Historically, every street has an incredible story, from Dante Alighieri to the cathedral (San Lorenzo), where the Holy Grail is believed to be kept-the plate used by Christ to eat the Passover lamb with his disciples during the Last Supper.
It is an artifact made in ancient Syria, most likely around the 1st century AD (though its dating is debated), and according to most sources, it was brought to Genoa by Guglielmo Embriaco following the conquest of Caesarea in 1101, during the First Crusade.
Then there’s the house of Christopher Columbus, the city where banks, jeans, and pesto were invented, and not least, the flag of Genoa was rented to England, which still uses it as its national flag today. This is because Genoese fleets were the most powerful in the world, to the point where they were the only ones not attacked by pirates. This was not the case for other fleets, including the English ones. So, the English asked to use the Genoese flag on their ships to keep the pirates away.
This is just 1% of the things to see in Genoa, sorry for going on 😊
Have you been to the church above Via XX Settembre, the Church of Santo Stefano, where there is a crypt that you can visit? Inside, there's a marble basin where Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, was baptized.
Buongiorno, ma quella non era la cattedrale? Sono stata a Ge
Nova molti anni fa e ricordo che in cattedrale c’era esposta una bomba dell’ultima guerra non esplosa, cadendo aveva colpito solo una parete laterale e questo era stato considerato quasi un miracolo . Non c’è più? Non sono riuscita a vederla
Lui è entrato nella chiesa del Gesù. la cattedrale (S. Lorenzo) è poco distante lungo la stessa via, e conserva tuttora la bomba disarmata.😊
Ok grazie
You walked right past what they say is the house of Cristoforo Colombo!
35:55 INFO TIIIIME
She said "oh Madonna". Southerners warped it into "oh Maronn", which is what you used to hear.
Madonna (-> Mia + Donna) literally means My Woman / My Lady, but here refers to the Virgin Mary.
Yes, like the singer Madonna, who has Italian origins.
Belin!
Very good job, one small correction it's the Mediterranean sea not an ocean
Glad you love it, but it's sea, not ocean... Hope you'll come back soon, you have to document a journey in the vicoli!
Ehm there's no Ocean in Italy... We have the Sea... Mediterraneo. You miss some of the best spot in Genova, like Nervi or the Expo site
48:00 This is the house of Cristoforo Colombo! You missed!
"The castle " is Cristoforo Colombo's house
in realtà intendeva Porta Soprana...
Without (the Republic of) Genoa and its child Christopher Columbus, the gentleman might not have US citizenship today. 🤔😋🤣
I believe youre Italian and always like to receive credits for something, even the slightest thing that would barely fit jnto context 😂
@@Snooper810and I know you are uneducated which you have shown with your post! 👌😋
I am quite sure without Colombo somebody else would have arrived there (and maybe not slaughtered thousands of people). Beside the fact that people already lived in the New World since 30-40k years and most likely Vikings arrived there before Colombo.
@@bastian6625 But it was Colombo who did it. Guess you ve got to live with it mate.
@@Snooper810well, it was Columbus who did it. So cope with it 🤷♂️
46:09 hello mate! :)
Bella Genova ❤ la mia città bello tutto dallo splendido mare al mangiare insomma una città a misura di uomo.
Are you gonna visit switzerland? I would reccomend St. Gallen its near the border to austria, ticino is also beautiful but basicaly like a very small italy
Boom baby! lets go!!!!!
Ben Foster exploring Genoa? I'm in.
have you tried our focaccia and pesto?
Figata questo, video. Penso che nessuno abbia mai raccontato Genova in questo modo. 👍
Edit: ma sei andato sull'altare? Non si può andare sull'altare. 😂
MMXI significa: 2011. (4 Luglio 2011)
Per voi che fate le cose al contrario: July 4, 2011.
non si può nemmeno camminare davanti alla gente che prega, per passare da una navata laterale all'altra bisognerebbe tornare in dietro ed attraversare, ma lui non lo sapeva ed ha tagliato bellamente il contatto tra i preganti e l'altare centrale LOL
Boccadasse and Corso Italia are the best part of Genoa: that's nonsense, these are places for tourists. Mr Sullivan point view is mine. He understood where Genoa's heart beats. Fyi, I'm born and bred in Genoa.
MMXI means 2011 in roman numbers.
Dude, you cannot visit Genova and do not walk around the "vicoli" (carruggi) ... just make the walk from Piazza de Ferrari down to the old harbour. (porto antico)...
And to eat like the locals I advice the "Trattoria Baciccia" for lunch, or the Tortuga to eat fantastic focaccia al formaggio... (cheese focaccia). For something very good but not local I would also try the Tiflis, especially if you like meat ...
16:50 I'm Italian and I didn't understand what he said either, he was speaking his own language😂
Wow... premetto che sono ligure, ho visto Genova decine di volte, ma guardandoti ho scoperto posti nuovi, grazie! ...però due o tre cose te le devo dire :
Qua, in Italia puoi entrare in tutti i negozi come e quando vuoi, senza chiedere il permesso... certo 5 minuti prima della chiusura, non è molto apprezzato!
D'altra parte, in una Chiesa non puoi entrare nelle sacrestia!....a meno che non sei un " addetto si lavori" ( prete, sacrestano, perpetua o chierichetto)
Ovviamente, già che c'eri... perché non visitare la casa di Cristoforo Colombo?
E ultimo, ma non ultimo, perché forse è il più importante...OCEANO?
Sicuramente avrai fatto un bagno nell'oceano, ma probabilmente non lo hai mai fatto in un MARE..
Il nostro è il Mar Ligure, che a sua volta è dentro il Mar Mediterraneo.... fallo e capirai subito la differenza 😊
Poi per il resto sei un grande... è bello vedere la tua emozione mentre ti perdi per i nostri vicoletti e rimani edterfatto nel vedere chiese e dipinti come se fossero create dal Brunelleschi o Michelangelo!
La Liguria è tutta bella da vedere, da Levante a Ponente! ❤️
MMXI it's Roman numbers for a year..In this case the year is 2011..
Hello brother i can recommend Sicilia.
I have heard many good things about it! I will have to visit one day 🙌
Being on a camper tour, a bit far maybe. But agree, there are amazing places in Sicily
Nice video! bu not ocean in Genova!
Nice video but pretty loud isn´t it?
you missed cristoforo colombo house
Conner, what is your age buddy?
you started in the worst possible position in the city center hahaha , I hate that dungeon of roads and concrete
MMI is 2011 The year
MMXI vorrai dire
M =1000 in romano antico
X=10
I=1
10 - 1 = 9
MMIX =2009
(IX = 9 ... XI = 11)
I have lived in Genoa for many years. Stop telling people about it! 🤣
GenoVa…Genoa is the team of the pidgeons
Ma fattene una ragione, si chiama Genoa in lingua straniera
@@fraps2440 che vuol dire vai a nuova york in vacanza? Muto pd
E dici vai a Munchen o a Monaco di Baviera? Ma stai zitto tu rimbambito
@@marcoorlandini9962Ma porca di una madonna sei proprio malato
I am from Genoa, (I try to use A.I. for translate my italian trying to correct some thing by miself) I'm sorry for all the defacement of the city with unsightly and disrespectful graffiti. If you go to other areas of the city, you will also see it defaced by the graffiti of the thughs of the two local football teams (even on the mountains and the coast, they sometimes raise flags, often failing miserably in the attempt). The city is now held hostage by these disrespectful rodents. This city does nothing to remedy this mess, which has reached incredible levels in recent years. These scribbles are not art!
I recently visited the beautiful Seville, and you can see very little graffiti there. What you thought was a castle is one of the gates of the city because in ancient times the city was surrounded by walls. At minute 48, you passed what some say was Christopher Columbus’s house (don’t look at the old kiosk because it was moved from another location in recent times). At minute 56, you walked on a part of the old walls that surrounded the city. Those structures are not fairy-tale castles; they are just ancient structures.
Be careful how you park because that place is a trap; the traffic wardens can’t wait to give you a ticket. I’ve gotten at least three tickets in that place. On that cliff you call a precipice, there is the modern castle of the traffic wardens, and you parked in their kingdom. Don’t worry, apart from Rubens, Van Dyck, and a few others, all the artworks were made by students of this and that or others schools… who were quite good, by the way. As good, thrifty Genoese, we never lacked anything at modest prices but always kept everything intimate. We are not in Seville, where every noble house has parks open to everyone. Here, they are all surrounded by barbed wire, and if you enter, they shoot you with salt, and if they catch you riding a bicycle inside, they shoot at your tires too.
Genoa is a continuous construction site and abandonment. The Sopraelevata is not a highway; it is just an elevated road where you can drive at 60 km/h, falling asleep along the way if it is not your first time traveling it. At minute 78, you are walking on another part of the ancient walls that once practically fell sheer into the sea. At minute 80, you were accessing the passport office, which was obviously closed.
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You don't have to bring down other cities