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"Genoa has only three streets and yet is one of the most beautiful cities in the world."
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Genoa"At Genoa I remained two days. To the peculiar attractions of a port, and that too a port of the Mediterranean, were added the magnificence and glories of a capital. ... It is not wide, is without side-walks, and but for the structures that line its two sides, would offer nothing remarkable. For more than a mile, however, it is a succession of edifices, that, in any other country but Italy, would be deemed fit for royalty."
Genoa is the sixth-largest city in Italy and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria. As of 2025, 565,301 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,629 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera.
"Genoa has only three streets and yet is one of the most beautiful cities in the world."
"Genoa was a bank before it was a city."
"Tra lazzurro ed il bianco, sul fondo dei colli di un verde opaco, Genova è misteriosa al modo di Londra, laltra città europea fatta a compartimenti stagni."
"Genua habet portum, mercesque domosque superbas."
"Grifus ut has angit Sic hostes Janua frangit."
"Genoa has a port, goods, and proud houses."