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Looking out over the sea at Quarto, along the Via Antica Romana that has skirted the eastern Riviera for centuries, Villa Spinola — also known as Villa dei Quattro Venti, the Villa of the Four Winds — is a 17th-century patrician residence bound tightly to one of the founding episodes of Italian history. It was … Read more
The Quinto Cliffs (Scogliera di Quinto) are the rocky shoreline of Quinto al Mare, at the far eastern edge of Genoa, and for generations they have been one of the favourite bathing spots of people living in this part of the city. There is no postcard sand here: instead you find rocks smoothed by the … Read more
The Old Village of Quinto is the historic seafaring core of Quinto al Mare, a district of eastern Genoa facing the open sea between Sturla and Nervi. It is one of those places that Genoese still call a borgo: a cluster of houses pressed against the rocks, alleys sloping down to the water, the smell … Read more
