Things to do in Genoa

150 places selected among attractions, museums, squares and viewpoints

Genoa is the sixth-largest city in Italy and the capital of the region of Liguria in northern Italy. As of 2026, 566,247 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 820,691 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera.

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1. 🏛️ museum
Palazzo Rosso
The Palazzo Brignole Sale or Palazzo Rosso is a house museum located in Via Garibaldi, in the historical center of Genoa, in Northwestern Italy. The palace is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli. The rich art collection inside, along with the galleries of Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Doria Tursi, is part of the Musei di Strada Nuova and consists of the works of artists of the caliber of Antoon van Dyck, Guido Reni, Paolo Veronese, Guercino, Gregorio De Ferrari, Albrecht Dürer, Bernardo Strozzi and Mattia Preti. (Wikipedia)

🏛️ Museums in Genoa

Royal Palace of Genoa

The Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) or Palazzo Stefano Balbi is a major palace in Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Bianco

Palazzo Bianco (English: White Palace) is one of the main buildings of the center of Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Giacomo Doria Museum of Natural History

The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria is a natural history museum in Genoa, northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Porta Soprana

Building in Genoa, Italy

Villa del Principe

The Villa del Principe, Palazzo del Principe, or Palace of Andrea Doria in Fassolo is one of the main historical suburban villas of Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Chiesa di Santa Maria di Castello

Santa Maria di Castello is a church and religious complex in Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Mackenzie Castle

The Mackenzie Castle (Italian: Castello Mackenzie) is a historical manor in the Castelletto quarter of Genoa, northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

The Biosphere

The Biosphere of Genoa (Italian: Biosfera), also commonly known as The Glass Bubble or Renzo Piano's Bubble (Italian: La Bolla di Renzo Piano), is a distinctive spherical glass and steel structure located inside Porto Antico (Old Harbour) of Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art

The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, Italy is an important collection of Asian art, one of the most significant collections in Europe and in Italy, along with the museums of Venice and Rome. (Wikipedia)

House of Cristoforo Colombo

The Christopher Columbus House in Genoa, Italy, is an 18th-century reconstruction of the house in which Christopher Columbus grew up. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Podestà

The Palazzo Podestà or Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino is a building located in via Garibaldi at number 7 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Galata - Museo del mare

The Galata - Museo del mare is a maritime museum in the Italian city of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi

The Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi or Palazzo Tobia Pallavicino is a building located in via Garibaldi (Genoa) at number 4 in the historic centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Villa Durazzo Pallavicini

The Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini is a villa with notable 19th-century park in the English romantic style and a small botanical garden. (Wikipedia)

Musei di Strada Nuova

The Musei di Strada Nuova is the main art gallery in the Italian city of Genoa and comprises three museums which together form a single complex, housed in three adjacent historical buildings: Palazzo Rosso, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi, located at the end of monumental Via Garibaldi (formerly Strada Nuova). (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Gerolamo Grimaldi

The Palazzo Gerolamo Grimaldi also known as the palazzo della Meridiana is a building located in the salita di San Francesco at number 4 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the forty-two palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Museo civico di archeologia ligure

Archeology museum in Italy

Via del Campo 29 Rosso

Museum in Genoa, Italy

Villa Croce museum of Contemporary Art

The Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art (Italian: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce) is a permanent collection of Italian and international contemporary art hosted in a villa in the Carignano quarter of Genoa, northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Diocesan museum of Genoa

The Diocesan museum of Genoa is located in Genova in the region of Liguria. (Wikipedia)

👑 Palaces in Genoa

Palazzo Doria Tursi

The palazzo Doria-Tursi or palazzo Niccolò Grimaldi is a building on Via Giuseppe Garibaldi in the historic town centre of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo San Giorgio

The Palazzo San Giorgio or Palace of St. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria

The Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria, also known as Palazzo Francesco Grimaldi, is a palace located in piazza di Pellicceria in the historical center of Genoa, Northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Genoa Stock Exchange

The Palazzo della Nuova Borsa Valori is a historical building in Genoa, located in Piazza De Ferrari, also known as the Palazzo della Borsa. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Baldassarre Lomellini

The palazzo Baldassarre Lomellini also known as palazzo di Cristoforo Spinola or palazzo Campanella is a building located in via Garibaldi at number 12 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Belimbau

The palazzo Belimbau, also known as palazzo Antoniotto Cattaneo or Palazzo Francesco De Ferrari, is a building in Piazza della Nunziata at number 2 in Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Gio Agostino Balbi Palace

Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini or Palazzo di Gio Agostino Balbi is a building on Via Balbi in the historic city centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Giacomo Spinola

The palazzo Giacomo Spinola or palazzo Giacomo Spinola di Luccoli is a building located in Piazza delle Fontane Marose at number 6 in Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Angelo Giovanni Spinola

The Palazzo Angelo Giovanni Spinola is a palace located in Via Garibaldi, in the historical center of Genoa, in Northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Doria Spinola

The Palazzo Doria-Spinola or Palazzo Antonio Doria is a palace located in largo Eros Lanfranco in the historical center of Genoa, Northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro

The Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro is a building located in Via San Luca at number 2 in the area of the Mercato di Banchi in the historic centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces enrolled in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Balbi Piovera Francesco

The Palazzo Francesco Maria Balbi Piovera is a monumental building located in via Balbi at number 6 in the historical centre of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Gio Battista Spinola

The Palazzo Doria or Palazzo Andrea e Gio. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Lercari-Parodi

The Palazzo Lercari-Parodi or Palazzo Franco Lercari is a building located at number 3, Via Garibaldi in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Stefano Lomellini

The Palazzo Lomellini-Doria Lamb', also called Palazzo Stefano Lomellini, is a building in Via Cairoli (Genoa) at number 18 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova, which on that date became World Heritage by UNESCO. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Pallavicini Cambiaso

The palazzo Pallavicini-Cambiaso or palazzo Agostino Pallavicini is a building located in via Garibaldi at number 1 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Paolo e Niccolò Interiano

The palazzo Paolo e Niccolò Interiano, or palazzo Interiano Pallavicino, is a building located in Piazza delle Fontane Marose at number 2 in Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that have become World Heritage by UNESCO. (Wikipedia)

Hotel Bristol Palace

Hotel Bristol Palace is a 5-star Luxury hotel in Genoa, Italy on Via XX Settembre. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo dell'Università

Building in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Balbi Giacomo e Pantaleo

Palace in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Bartolomeo Lomellino

Palace in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Cattaneo Adorno

The palazzo Cattaneo-Adorno or palazzo Lazzaro e Giacomo Spinola is a building on via Garibaldi, in the historical centre of Genoa, marked by house numbers 8 and 10, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova, which became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Cipriano Pallavicini

The palazzo Cipriano Pallavicini is a building located in the historical centre of Genoa in Piazza Fossatello at number 2, which is one of the 42 palaces included in the site called Le Strade Nuove e il Sistema dei Palazzi dei Rolli di Genova that became part of the UNESCO World Heritage UNESCO World Heritage on 13 July 2006. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Giacomo Lomellini

The Palazzo Giacomo Lomellini, also known as the Palazzo Patrone, is a building in Largo Zecca at number 2 in Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Balbi Gio. Francesco

Palace in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Ayrolo Negrone

Palace in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Pantaleo Spinola

The palazzo Pantaleo Spinola or palazzo Gambaro is a building located in via Garibaldi (Genoa) at number 2 in the historical centre of Genoa, included on 13 July 2006 in the list of the 42 palaces inscribed in the Rolli di Genova that became World Heritage by UNESCO on that date. (Wikipedia)

Palazzo Gio Carlo Brignole

Palace in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo Gio Vincenzo Imperiale

The Palazzo Vincenzo Imperiale is a building in Campetto at number 8a, in the area of the Soziglia Market in the historical centre of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

⛪ Churches and places of worship in Genoa

Santa Maria Assunta

Santa Maria Assunta is a Renaissance church in Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santa Maria delle Vigne

Santa Maria delle Vigne is a Catholic basilica in Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato

The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato is a prominent Roman Catholic church of Genoa, northern Italy; its decoration employed the major baroque studios and artists in Genoa in the 17th century. (Wikipedia)

San Siro

San Siro is a Roman Catholic basilica located on the street of the same name, in the quartiere of the Maddalena in central Genoa, Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Donato

San Donato is a church in Genoa, Northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Chiesa del Gesù e dei Santi Ambrogio e Andrea

Church in Genoa, Italy

Basilica di Nostra Signora Assunta, Genoa

Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption (Italian: Basilica di Nostra Signora Assunta) is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Genoa, in the Province of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Nostra Signora della Consolazione e San Vincenzo martire

The church of the Madonna della Consolazione e San Vicenzo Martire (Virgin of the Consolation and St. (Wikipedia)

San Bartolomeo degli Armeni

San Bartolomeo degli Armeni is an Armenian Catholic church in the quarter of Castelletto in Genoa, northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Matteo

San Matteo is a Roman Catholic church in Genoa, in the region of Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Sant'Agostino Church

Sant'Agostino is a church in the historical center of Genoa, northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia

The Shrine of Nostra Signora della Guardia ("Our Lady of the Watch") is a Roman Catholic place of pilgrimage located on the top of Monte Figogna (804 m asl) in the Municipality of Ceranesi, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the city of Genoa, in the northwest of Italy. (Wikipedia)

Commenda di San Giovanni di Pré

Church building in Genoa, Italy

Santo Stefano Church

Santo Stefano is a church in Genoa, northern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Basilica di Santa Maria Immacolata

Church building in Genoa, Italy

San Pancrazio

The church of San Pancrazio is found in central Genoa, in front of the piazza named after the same saint. (Wikipedia)

Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi

The Church of the Most Holy Name of Mary and the Guardian Angels, commonly known as the Church of the Scuole Pie, is a place of worship located in Piazza delle Scuole Pie, in the historic center of Genoa, a few dozen meters from the Cathedral of San Lorenzo. (Wikipedia)

San Filippo Neri

San Filippo Neri is a Baroque-style church on via Lomellini in central Genoa. (Wikipedia)

San Pietro in Banchi, Genoa

Church of Saint Peter in Banchi (Italian: Chiesa di San Pietro in Banchi) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Genoa, in the Province of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Torpete

San Torpete is a church in central Genoa, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint Torpes. (Wikipedia)

Santi Cosma e Damiano

The church of Santi Cosma e Damiano is located in central Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Santi Vittore e Carlo

Santi Vittore e Carlo is a Baroque-style church on Via Balbi in central Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata in Sturla

The church of the Santissima Annunziata in Sturla (Italian: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata di Sturla) is a Roman Catholic church of the neighbourhood of Sturla, in the city of Genoa, in the Province of Genoa and the region of Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Luca

The Church of San Luca (Chiesa di San Luca) is a Roman Catholic church in the historic centre of Genoa, Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

San Sisto

San Sisto is a Roman Catholic church in Genoa, Italy, located in Centro-Est quartiere of Prè, near the railway station of Genova Piazza Principe. (Wikipedia)

Sant'Anna

The Church of Saint Anne (Italian: Chiesa di Sant'Anna), with the adjacent convent and pharmacy of the Discalced Carmelites, is a Roman Catholic church located in the residential quarter of Castelletto in Genoa, Liguria, north-western Italy. (Wikipedia)

Nostra Signora del Monte

San Francesco da Paola

Church building in Genoa, Italy

Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina

The Oratorio di San Giacomo della Marina (translated as Oratory of St. (Wikipedia)

🌉 Bridges, towers and architecture in Genoa

Genoa-Saint George viaduct

The Genoa Saint George Bridge (Italian: Viadotto Genova-San Giorgio) is a motorway viaduct that crosses the Polcevera river and the districts of Sampierdarena and Cornigliano, in the city of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Strada sopraelevata di Genova

Loggia della Mercanzia

The Loggia della Mercanzia (also known as Loggia di Banchi or Loggia dei Mercanti) is one of the most representative buildings in the historical centre of Genoa. (Wikipedia)

Via Cairoli

Via Cairoli is a street in the historical centre of Genoa, in North-western Italy, named after the 10th Prime Minister of Italy Benedetto Cairoli (1825-1889). (Wikipedia)

Embriaci Tower

The Torre Embriaci, also called Torre degli Embriaci, located in the oldest area of Genoa, where the Castello o Castrum stood. (Wikipedia)

Villa Imperiale Scassi

Villa in Genoa, Italy

Villa Gruber De Mari

Villa Gruber De Mari was built by the noble Genoese family De Mari in the second half of the 16th century in the suburban area between the Sant'Anna and San Rocchino walkways linking the center of the city to the New Walls, in the Castelletto neighborhood of Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Synagogue

Building in Genoa, Italy

San Vincenzo Tower

The San Vincenzo Tower (Italian: Torre San Vincenzo) also known as the SIP Tower or Telecom Italia Tower is a high-rise office building in the San Vincenzo district of Genoa, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Villa Di Negro Rosazza dello Scoglietto

Villa Di Negro Rosazza "dello Scoglietto" or "lo Scoglietto" is a villa located in the quarter of San Teodoro in Genoa, Northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Antica Farmacia Sant'Anna

The Antica Farmacia Sant'Anna (Italian for “Ancient Pharmacy of Saint Anne”) is a pharmacy and herbal medicine dispensary in Genoa, Italy, located in the quarter of Castelletto. (Wikipedia)

Langer Heinrich

Langer Heinrich, or in English Long Henry, is a floating crane commissioned in 1915 for the Wilhelmshaven Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and has been located in Genoa, Italy since 1997. (Wikipedia)

Punta Vagno Lighthouse

Punta Vagno Lighthouse (Italian: Faro di Punta Vagno) is an active lighthouse located on the same name Cape at the east entrance of the Port of Genoa, Liguria on the Ligurian Sea. (Wikipedia)

Ponte Carrega

Bridge in Genoa, Italy

villa Centurione Doria

Building in Genoa, Italy

Villa Durazzo Bombrini

Villa in Genoa, Italy

Palazzo del Banco di Napoli

Building in Genoa, Italy

🏔️ Nature around Genoa

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which includes a number of streets and palaces in the center of Genoa, in Northwestern Italy. (Wikipedia)

Monte Figogna

Monte Figogna is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Monte Fasce

Monte Fasce is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Bergeggi

📍 43 km from Genoa

Bergeggi is an island which lies in the Ligurian Sea off the coast near the village of Bergeggi in the Province of Savona, Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Monte Alpesisa

Monte Alpesisa is a 989 metres high mountain in the Ligurian Apennines, in Italy. (Wikipedia)

Monte Antola

📍 25 km from Genoa

Monte Antola (in Ligurian munte Antua) is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Monte Beigua

📍 29 km from Genoa

Monte Beigua (also in Ligurian: Monte Peigoa) is a mountain in the Ligurian Apennines in Liguria, northern Italy, between the two communes of Varazze and Sassello. (Wikipedia)

Monte Lesima

📍 40 km from Genoa

Monte Lesima is a mountain of the Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Monte Taccone

📍 18 km from Genoa

Monte Taccone is a mountain located between Liguria and Piedmont in north-western Italy. (Wikipedia)

Lago della Busalletta

📍 18 km from Genoa

Lago della Busalletta is an artificial lake in northwest Italy which straddles the provinces of Genoa (in Liguria) and Alessandria (in Piedmont), near the towns of Fraconalto and Busalla. (Wikipedia)

Monte Chiappo

📍 38 km from Genoa

Monte Chiappo is one of the Apennine Mountains in Italy. (Wikipedia)

Monte Leco

📍 18 km from Genoa

Monte Leco is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Monte delle Figne

📍 19 km from Genoa

Monte delle Figne (Figne Mountain) is a mountain in Liguria, northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. (Wikipedia)

Lago del Brugneto

📍 25 km from Genoa

Lago del Brugneto is a lake in the Province of Genova, Liguria, Italy. (Wikipedia)

Laghi del Gorzente

📍 18 km from Genoa

Laghi del Gorzente is a group of three lakes in north-west Italy which straddles the provinces of Genoa (in Liguria) and Alessandria (in Piedmont). (Wikipedia)