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| Fabulous Church Archtiecture |
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| And who do we see? |
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| Home of Christopher Columbus |
We have tried to stay true to keeping our blog entries event/location driven rather than holiday pics.
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| What he'd sail today |
With that in mind we had taken a 15 day hiatus back in Levanto and did a 1 day trip into Genoa to visit it. It is such a beautiful city architecturally.
Known best now as a port city, it was the hometown of a pretty important guy, Christopher Columbus. Now while he was raised here, he discovered America for Spain and that is why the 3 ships are on display in Huelva (May entry). But just like good old St Nick, and Marco Polo, everyone wants a tourist piece of that action so Genoa commemorates his birthplace here.
Genoa has a large marine basin, with a lot of
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| Mega Yacht |
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| Ride to shore by Heli please? |
A university that is the 3 or 4th oldest in Europe. It was an enjoyable, but hot day, while we were there.
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| University Lion |
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| CC's old House |
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| Monument to Chris |
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