Genoa's Forts and Walls: an Urban Park
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GENOA’S FORTS AND WALLS: AN URBAN PARK a walk through nature and history en from left: Fratello Minore, Forte Sperone, Forte Diamante THE PARcO DELLE MURA AND RiNG OF FORTS How to get there Just a few minutes from the town centre Forte crocetta Forte Tenaglia Forte Begato Forte Sperone Forte Puin Fratello Minore Forte Diamante THE ZEccA-RiGHi FUNicULAR Every 30 minutes (approximately) Forte castellaccio Trensasco from Piazza della Zecca Righi stopping at San Nicola, Santuario della Genoa-Casella Railway Piazza Manin Principe Railway Cable Railway Madonnetta, San Simone. Station Zecca Regular AMT bus ticket. Sampierdarena The Ancient Aqueduct Molassana Aquarium By BUS Genoa’s charm, “superb for its Genoa of old lanes and historical This is the landscape at Parco delle Mura, the From Piazza Manin take bus n. 64 From Brignole train station bus n. 39 and Protected Nature Area of local interest: the men and for its walls” as Petrarch buildings, Genoa of hills and 40. From Principe train station bus n. 38 walls that give the park its name are in fact the followed by the Granarolo bus n. 355. defined it 700 years ago, resides woods, Genoa of forts and city so-called New Walls (Mura Nuove), built in the Regular AMT bus ticket. in a dramatically contrasting walls... Genoa the theatre: for at 1600s to fortify city and port defences. The For information Ph. 848 000 030 landscape and in the city’s many least 26 centuries the bay in the walls are preserved in very good conditions www.amt.genova.it faces: Genoa of sea and rocks, Old Port has acted as a natural and encircle Genoa in a giant embrace, THE GENOA-cASELLA MountaiN almost invisible to those who live and work RAilway stage, with hills rising up to close down below in the city streets. They are an The Genoa-Casella narrow gauge it in a sweet embrace forming the urban and historical monument, both unique train departs from Piazza Manin. Stops perfect set design. Up in the hills and invaluable, and represent a magnificent at San Pantaleo, Sant’Antonino and iNcREDiBLE...BUT TRUE! rendezvous between town and nature - Trensasco. One of the features that make you are immediately immersed in a For information Ph. 848 000 030 untamed and wild in places - which surrounds Genoa a simply unique city: you www.ferroviagenovacasella.it natural environment that is deeply the city. Since 2008 the park safeguards 617 can reach the Parco delle Mura by ON FOOT OR By BicycLE Mediterranean but has sweet hectares of hillside straddling the Val Bisagno car in just a few minutes from the From the Aquarium (Old Port): town centre. The sensation is that alpine scents: it is a landscape of and the Val Polcevera, which are the main Piazza Banchi - Castelletto - Salita San of being enveloped by untouched trees, city walls, beautiful views, city valleys. As well as the walls dating to the Gerolamo - Salita E. Cavallo - Righi nature and breathtaking views. In 1600s, the Parco delle Mura also boasts several From Zecca: where the only sounds are those of every season, and certainly on a military forts built between the 17th and 18th Salita Carbonara - Salita San Nicolò clear day, don’t forget to glance the wind blowing over the grassy centuries and safeguards the natural habitat of Salita Superiore San Simone - Righi. southwards, where you will see the fields and birds flitting among the the area, home to several species of protected From Principe train station: Island of Corsica. flora and fauna, either rare or endemic. Salita San Rocco - Salita Granarolo - pine trees. Righi. 2 OUTDOOR 3 2 Forte Diamante SANT’OLCESE Chiesa di Geminia Key to the map lla no 667 m TRENSASCO a a Stazione FS Vi Bolzaneto eatiNG AND DRiNKiNG Highway Parco delle Mura o t nearV THE forts e n i a a T z l Roads Restaurants u o Fratello Minore r a B Agriturismo dü Sui em t a i i i ia G niano i V V in Described trails Museums 2 b via L.T. 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Costanzi 10 P r ia V Pa Ph. 010 242 2457 Via alla Fornace del Garbo Osteria al Garbo so i di Frego Pian salita al Garbo 39, Garbo Rivarolo, ai ia 2 a l V l e s Ph. 010 740 2686 a Forte Sperone a v 2 3 C o n a e v G o Ristorante La Polveriera - n e o V ia G del ovia o P rr an 1 e Fe l s i ra via Parco del Peralto 30 Righi, i o l n M t za g Forte Begato o z 7 e e A r V F da A12 Genova - Livorno a FREGOSO Autostra Vi a i Ph. 010 242 5389 GARBO d ad i r t n s a lto i a o P r Ristorante La Rosa del Parco i e ut a P a l A V e d V o i rc a via G. Costanzi, Oregina Via al Forte di Begato a P P ia a Salita al Garbo r V c o Ph. 010 242 5375 Salita al Garbo d e l P e r Ristorante Montallegro a 1 l t o Mura delle Chiappe 28/r Righi, Uscita Autostrada Ph. 010 219 673 - www.montallegro.com 3 SANT’ANTONINO Genova Est Trattoria Arvigo o Castellaccio arolo c an o Bian Cimitero Monumentale Gr e via Cremeno 31 - Cremeno, Bolzaneto di m di Staglieno o ura l o M t Via Parco del Peralto r SAN PANTALEO a Ph. 010 717 0001 i Ba TEGLIA V ia V Via G. Costanzi Torre della Specola Trattoria della costa o e LAGACCIO l a Via G. Costanzi t n via Costa di Begato 6 - Begato, Rivarolo a P n Via Carso a S Ph. 010 740 3627 Forte Tenaglia i d Via a D. i a C V h n o to Trattoria La Baita del Diamante i i o r o o c i T c a ia d b V Forte della Crocetta r Torrente Bisagno a o a b g RIGHI o n a via Forte Diamante 11 - Trensasco o B L b a a r i i a a V r V C i a r n Ph. 010 836 9393 i r o s e . n Via Bari Via e F a Via C z g D o a . n i a C n Cimitero P i V Via Napoli Via e h Trattoria Luigina r b o i i i s o o della Castagna l . F d R e C a g o o i s n V . i via ai Piani di Fregoso 14e Fregoso, A C r Via del Piano i a l v g Via Carso e e e Corso De Stefanis C.so Martinetti n n d o o Rivarolo - Ph. 010 242 9594 g a ol n r Carso Via a B t a a a C r i ZECCA u V Bisagno Torrente a o q i P c A V a l a l i a V SAMPIERDARENA a Stazione FS i V CASTELLETTO Piazza Principe MARASSI 4 OUTDOOR 5 from left: port of the Mura, Torre Specola, Forte Diamante junction with Via Giovanni Costanzi. 1. The itinerary continues along Via del BELOW THE ANciENT WALLS - FROM RiGHi TO forte Begato Peralto, where the built-up area of the an ADvENTURE PARK! city ends. A bridge takes you across Close to Villa Quartara, in a well-kept and Righi From Righi (funicular terminus) the moat and the first defence wall of suitably equipped wood, there is a new The route starts at 300 metres above sea to Forte Castellaccio, up to Forte Castellaccio, leading you into a Adventure Park. Fun and excitement level in Largo Giorgio Caproni, outside wooded area, which skirts this almost for young people aged 6 to 100. A Forte Sperone and then down the Zecca-Righi funicular hidden, yet very near, elongated building high-ropes garden, with several different to Forte Begato. terminus, moving up along overlooking the hill. courses, is a special way to get in contact Mura delle Chiappe with nature. Qualified staff provide Fortepast Puin the Astronomical instructions and safety equipment, then Forte castellaccio Observatory you move from tree to tree and feel like a Built in the 14th century as a fortified (Osservatorio Astronomico true mountain climber. Open from April tower “with walls and moats”, the fort del Righi), to reach the to November, 10 a.m. to sunset. was subsequently modified in the 1700s Info: parcoavventura.it and again in the 1800s under Savoia Phone: 331 760 7496 oso reg family rule.