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Liguria · Italy
Palaces, an aquarium and a fishing village, all on the Ligurian coast.
The Strada Nuova palaces on Via Garibaldi and the Acquario di Genova are a walk from the ship. Boccadasse, a fishing village with a small beach, sits on the coast east of the center.
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See Palaces
Via Garibaldi (Strada Nuova)
Palazzo Rosso (No. 18) and Palazzo Bianco (No. 11) stand on Via Garibaldi, about 0.7 mile from Ponte dei Mille. Palazzo Bianco holds Liguria's most important art gallery; both close on Mondays.
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Corso Italia, about 3 miles east
Colorful houses and fishing boats line a small beach. The Corso Italia seafront walk, about 1.5 miles long, starts at Piazza Rossetti and ends here.
Explore Boccadasse (opens a new tab)Taste Market
Via XX Settembre, about 1.3 miles
A covered market that opened in 1899. Upstairs is MOG, a food hall.
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Porto Antico, about 0.4 mile
400 animal and 200 plant species on Ponte Spinola. Open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., last entry 6 p.m.; adult tickets from €26.
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Ships dock at Ponte dei Mille or Ponte Andrea Doria, side by side west of the old town. From either, the main sights are a walk.
Cristoforo Colombo Airport is about 5 miles from the terminals by road, the terminal operator says.
Book cruise parking through the terminal operator's online form, which shows the price. Bag storage, run by BagLink, is booked on the same site.
If you do one thing here
The city tourist office names pesto and focaccia as Genoa's most famous foods. Focaccia genovese is flour, olive oil and coarse salt, pressed with fingertips so the dimples hold the oil.
Genoese eat it at breakfast with a coffee or cappuccino, at lunch, or with an aperitif. Pesto alla genovese is made with Genoese basil in a marble mortar; try it with trofie or trenette.
Focaccia Genovese at VisitGenoa (opens a new tab)Pesto at VisitGenoa (opens a new tab)
Recorded theft in the Genoa province is close to the Italian rate; robbery is about a third higher.
Crime figures: Eurostat, police-recorded offenses per 100,000 inhabitants, Genoa province (ITC33) and Italy, 2024; the percentages are our sums. Distances: OpenStreetMap coordinates, straight lines, our sums.
Make it part of your voyage
MSC, Costa and Princess make most of the calls at Genoa.
At two cruise terminals, Ponte dei Mille and Ponte Andrea Doria. Stazioni Marittime Genova runs five passenger terminals in all; the other three serve ferries.
The port does not say which line uses which pier. MSC is the main line here, with 1,546 of the 1,775 calls in our schedule data. Your boarding pass shows your terminal.
The terminal operator posts a daily list of cruise and ferry arrivals and departures with times. It has no pier column.
About 0.6 mile according to the terminal operator. The aquarium is about 0.4 mile from Ponte dei Mille in a straight line.
Walk. Genova Principe is joined to the terminal by a covered, lit path of about 0.25 mile.
Take the AMT Volabus from Arrivals to Principe station; it needs a €10 MetDaily 24-hour ticket. Then walk the covered path, about 0.25 mile, to the terminal. By road the airport is about 5 miles away.
Yes. The terminal operator takes cruise parking bookings through an online form on its site, which shows the price.
Bag storage is booked through BagLink on the terminal operator's site.
Walk to the aquarium at Porto Antico and the palaces on Via Garibaldi, both within about 0.7 mile of Ponte dei Mille, and eat focaccia. Then ride to Mercato Orientale or Boccadasse.
Eurostat's 2024 figures put recorded theft in the Genoa province 5% above Italy's rate and robbery 34% above. The figures cover the whole province.
None near the pier. Boccadasse, about 3.2 miles east, has a small beach. The 2026 bathing season ended on September 30.
