Genoa

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• The ceiling at an entrance to a bank on Via Garibaldi a street known for many villas
•  Christopher Columbus was from here! A castle …. you have to know me by now that where there’s a castle….  

The views were pretty nice too!

There were several elevators in Genoa that took you to the top of the hills: one for the castle and one for an overlook.  The photo here shows the horizontal part of the elevator into the mountain. Then it goes upwards.

A villa on via Garibaldi

lots of clothes hanging especially Sunday mornings.

 Piazza De Ferrari is the main square of Genoa. Situated in the heart of the city between the historical and the modern center, Piazza De Ferrari is renowned for its fountain, which was restored in recent years along with a major restyling of the square. Wikipedia Porta Soprana is the best-known gate of the ancient walls of Genoa. After major restorations carried out between the 19th and 20th centuries, it has regained the appearance it supposedly had at the time of the construction of the so-called Barbarossa walls (1150 ca.).  **The above photo is one of the gates (not the Porto soprana)

The Port of Genoa is the major Italian seaport and it’s in competition with the ports of Marseille and Barcelona to be the biggest of the Mediterranean Sea. With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy by cargo tonnage. Wikipedia