Having only moved to Liguria a couple of years ago, I have also only recently become aware of the great Ligurian artists, so many of whom come from Genoa, the most underrated city in all of Italy. These include the violinist Niccolò Paganini, the Nobel Prize winning poet Eugenio Montale […]
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Our most complete tour of this spectacular area, the Cinque Terre by Land and Sea, has just been revamped to allow people the opportunity to explore the Ligurian capital city of Genoa. For those of you who don’t know much about it, Genoa was ruler of the Mediterranean world in […]
It is rather popular in Italy to describe any city as being a jewel unto itself … if it just weren’t for its pesky inhabitants. “Ahh Naples,” they will purr. “Simply paradise! And the food – to die for. Too bad about the Neapolitans.” Or, “Genoa! A pearl on the […]
There really is no end to the infinite wonders of the world, and anyone cynical enough to believe that they’ve seen it all have very little imagination indeed. Here’s one for you: My local butcher Sandro, while grinding up some beef for Erica‘s enviable ragù sauce, tried to get me […]