About Access Genova

What this site is

Eighteen sights, one page each, and eleven sections on how the city works: two main stations rather than one, an old town of alleys that no vehicle enters, public lifts and a funicular that climb the hills, the palace streets above the port, and the coast at either end.

Every page is written to answer the questions a visitor actually has — what this place is, what you see when you get there, how long to give it, what to combine it with, and what is a reconstruction rather than the original.

It is not a listings site. There are no opening hours and no admission prices anywhere on it, because those change and the operator is the only source that is right on the day you travel.

How it is written

Each page is built from sources that are named at the foot of it, and the facts in it — dates, heights, distances, who built what and when — are checked against those sources before the page is built.

Where a story is a tradition rather than a fact, the page says so. The house below Porta Soprana is an eighteenth-century rebuilding on the site where Columbus grew up, not the house itself; the green glass dish in the cathedral treasury is Islamic glass, not the Holy Grail; the present Lanterna dates from 1543, not from the first light on that rock.

Access Genova is written and maintained with the assistance of AI, edited and fact-checked before publication. Anything wrong is worth telling us about, and will be corrected.

The photographs

Every photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited on the page it appears on, with the photographer's name, the licence and a link to the file.

They are chosen by looking at them: recent rather than archival, showing the place the page is about rather than something filed under its name, and captioned from what is actually in the frame.

What it costs you

Nothing. A few planning pages carry affiliate links, marked as such, and the privacy page explains what that means.

No page about a sight carries one, and nothing on this site is recommended because of a commission.