Genova | Above the Port

A week in the carruggi, and the Italian city that belongs to the Mediterranean before it belongs to Italy

We drove into Genova on the A12 from Versilia, two hours of motorway tunnels punched through the Apennines and then a long descent through the cuttings and viaducts the road takes to drop a coastal city out of a mountain wall. The first thing you see from the autostrada, before you see the city, is the port, which is the largest container facility on th…