Chris Columbus' Town, a photo from Genoa, Liguria

Photographer's Note

This is a General view of Genoa, Italy's largest port city and home of Christopher Columbus (of New World Discovery Fame for those of you who were sleeping through history class)

Through the middle ages it was one of the two most powerful Italian City states rivaling Venice and at permanent war with Venice. It has one of the largest old towns in Europe. A particular aspect of it is that the old town is very long and narrow, as people seem to want to live close to the harbour were economic activities went on.

Where the octopus like metalic sculpture is, its the Porto Antico, an urban redevelpment zone where old wharehouses have been converted to restaurants and stores.

To get this picture I walked along the main road and then started climbing up some stairs, through a park and then behind through a dodgy neighborhood,

I think the view was worth it

Paolo, ChrisJ, summersun, AmiBe, gaby, hamster, Tue, elihesamian, capthaddock, Traveller has marked this note useful

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Paolo (41258) 2005-05-17 3:59

Bella foto Daniel!
the POV is really fascinating and 360� around the city!
the Octopus is called in Italian Bigo and was built for the 1992 Cristoforo Colombo Celebration.
thanks, ciao

naxius (16685) 2005-05-17 4:46

Bonjour Daniel,
Gene est effectivement un port tres tres grand et ca se voit a l'approche de la ville tant l'air est pollue ;o
Je trouve ta photo parfaitement equilibre et elle donne un bon apercu de l'etendu de ce port.
Bravo!
Alex

ChrisJ (171302) 2005-05-17 4:57

Salut Daniel

Une POV superbe, donnant sur tout le port de G瘽es. J'aime les courbes rapides des b漮iments � travers l'armature.

A superb pov, overlooking the whole harbour of Genoa. I like the sweeping curves of the buildings across the frame. C'est tres bon!

dolin (7369) 2005-05-17 5:06

Hello Daniel.
Tr鋊 beau point de vue, c'est assez impressionnant.
Ca fourmille de d彋ails et on a l'impression qu'il n'y aucun espace entre tous ces batiments.
Bien cadr� et bien fait.
Joli.
Fred

summersun (4978) 2005-05-17 5:14

bon point de vue de cette immense ville que je n'ai jamais visit嶪 car elle ne m'attire pas trop, d嶴� c'est toute une histoire pour la d廧asser sur l'autoroute... ;)
le port en effet est immense, et ta photo regorge de d彋ails interessants.
Vanessa

AmiBe (6042) 2005-05-17 5:27

Hello Daniel,
belle vue sur cette ville qui a vu na褾re beaucoup de personnalit廥 !
J'aime le format panoramique et la vue sur le port.

Zepi (22848) 2005-05-17 5:36

Hello Daniel,
J𠿟ime pas tellement cette ville, je la trouve inesth彋ique et 彋ouffante.
Mais par contre, j𠿟ime beaucoup ton image, je trouve que tu as parfaitement sur faire ressortir cette atmosph鋨e dans ta photo !
Et ceci m廨ite amplement un sourire tout vert !
Beau travail
Amicalement
S嶵astien

taivo (1843) 2005-05-17 6:40

The view is fantastic, as well as the colours. There are so much details to explore. Nice, but busy city scenes for the eyes :)

gaby (19819) 2005-05-17 7:34

Hi Daniel,
Bravo pour cette vue panoramique de Genoa que je connais tr鋊 bien (comme une grande partie de l'Italie et de la Sicile d'ailleurs) -
Un joli clich� plein de d彋ails
Merci
Gaby

hamster (104) 2005-05-17 8:42

I love this city, however, I haven't got a change to spend there more that one day, unfortunately. I have a weekness for seaside cities.

Regards,
Grzegorz

HalloweenHJB (152) 2005-05-17 8:50

I believe that it has been definitively proven that Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) was not Italian, but came from what is now Spain --most likely Barcelona in Catalonia. There was a Genoese "Colombo" who was a tailor, but it has been demonstrated convincingly that he was certainly not the navegator and explorer who sailed for the Queen of Castille.

dsidwell (9783) 2005-05-17 9:41

I like how you provide a zig-zag for us to follow up into your photo, Daniel. Very effective composition. This IS a very nice view, and I love how so many revealing details are present.

PixelTerror (0) 2005-05-18 3:36

Salut Daniel,
Beau point de vue et ton scan est bien ressorti, dommage pour l'autoroute mais connaissant la geographie du coin c'est pas facile de tout faire rentrer dan un espace plutot reduit !
Comme les autres, je ne me suis jamais arrete a Genes...
Bonne journee,
Jean-Yves

Tue (91648) 2005-05-18 17:59

Hi Daniel,
Great view over this city! I like all the roofs. The different city elements and the composition are very nice too! Well done! :-D
Groetjes,
Lars

elihesamian (26149) 2005-05-19 14:35

Great view you show us with a nice POV,very good detailed and I like the warm tonalities at all in the shot,great note,Daniel,Thanks.
I like digonal lines of the buildings and high ways in a zig zag form,nicely done and well composed,Thanks for posting.

Regards
M

Leonie (8809) 2005-05-20 3:56

Salut Daniel,
J'adore cette belle ville dans laquelle j'ai v嶰u 1 an! Ta photo me donne la nostalgie..merci du partage..je repasse pour la munition! Ciao, L廩nie

MarekP (4750) 2005-05-20 8:23

Nice panorama, Daniel. Good composition and perspective. I like the contrast of modern highway in the middle of the old city.

Thanks,
Marek

capthaddock (28790) 2005-05-26 10:40

Hi Daniel - excellent view over the city, its not to everyones taste, but I like seedy large mediterranean ports, was even born in one.

luca30 (221) 2005-10-23 15:35

Sure the view was worth it. :-)
Really one of the best picture of Genova I've seen.
Congratulation Daniel.
What a pity you didn't a panorama picture.
I use this software, Hugin and it's great.

Thanks for sharing
luca