Some say Genoa takes its name from Janus, the two-faced god of time and doorways. Perhaps. What’s certain is the city has two aspects: the vast industrial port, its docks the bared teeth of the Italian Riviera; and, in the ruched strip of land between the Ligurian Sea and the hills, a bewildering network of alleys, stairways, and irregular little squares.
Thomas Marks
Genoa
It was nicknamed ‘La Superba’, so how, asked Dickens, could one city contain so many ugly priests?

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