10 Ways to Spend A Day (or more) in Genoa

Genoa is Italy's sixth-largest city in terms of population, but it doesn’t have the kind of tourist appeal that Florence, Rome, or Venice have. Just 54 miles west of the popular Cinque Terre in the Italian Riviera, Genova can be a stop on an Italian coastal itinerary for a day, or longer. 

Among its winding 11th century caruggi (alleys) filled with 150-year-old butcher shops, and streets that have been worn in from decades of exposure to fog and sea, there is a modern and