Genoa. Gateway to the sea
Author | : F. Calzia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9788870587524 |
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Author | : F. Calzia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9788870587524 |
Author | : William C. Dubois |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Docks |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Allison Kirk |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421409666 |
Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.
Author | : Forte |
Publisher | : FrancoAngeli |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 8820453428 |
Author | : Elena Parma Armani |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Amy Finley |
Publisher | : Hunter Publishing, Inc |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 158843771X |
A detailed guide to every aspect of Genoa: history, culture, foods, restaurants, hotels, sightseeing, things to do - written by an author who knows the place intimately. Two marble-carved lions crouch flanking the stairs leading to the entrance of Genoa's monumental cathedral of San Lorenzo. Their proud features are marred by graffiti - cartoonish scribbles rendering their expression more pathetic than fierce. They're an apt metaphor for the city of Genoa itself, which can be a challenging one for tourists. During two millennia of tumultuous history, Genoa has seen its fortunes rise and fall. At its pinnacle, the city - center of the Genoese Republic - had unparalleled wealth and economic and political power. French historiographer Fernand Braudel wrote of the city, "If ever a diabolically capitalist city can be said to have existed before the capitalist age in Europe and the world, then it is Genoa, opulent and sordid at the same time." From these heights Genoa would plunge over successive centuries, losing hegemony, then autonomy, and finally prosperity. Today, it is a city in the grip of evolution. There is much that is decrepit and shabby, but there are also the heralds of a renaissance both economic and cultural. The lion that is Genoa may be blemished and humbled, but there is every evidence that with attention and caretaking it is regaining - if not its former brilliant grandeur - at least its dignity and relevance on the world stage. Perhaps that's why Genoa is particularly poignant, and important for travelers who hope to leave Liguria with a greater understanding of the region - both what it was, and what it is becoming. It is impossible to leave Genoa unimpressed and without an opinion. Genoa is - and has been for millennia - a port town, and the nature of a port is to facilitate trade via access to both sea and land routes. The geography of Liguria is characterized by mountains that plunge steeply into the sea, and that are criss-crossed by deep valleys. Genoa - which sits at the near middle of Liguria's great land crescent - is not only at the epicenter of what, from above, appears as one giant harbor. It is also at the crossroads of land routes that made use of these deep valleys to cut across the Apennines to northern Italy and the rest of Europe. This guide is drawn from our Adventure Guide to the Italian Riviera, but with added pictures of the hotels, restaurants and other features.
Author | : Evgeny Khvalkov |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351623060 |
This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.
Author | : Autori Vari |
Publisher | : Viella Libreria Editrice |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2016-01-14T00:00:00+01:00 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8867285130 |
Union in Separation presents a series of case studies on diasporic groups in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. It explores how Armenian, Byzantine/Greek, Florentine, Genoese, Hospitaller, Jewish, Mamluk, and Venetian communities characterized by diasporic identities and inserted into local contexts navigated religious and socio-ethnic boundaries as well as other categories of difference. The volume draws on a wide range of historical and social-scientific methods and offers new perspectives on the arbitration of difference in the wider eastern Mediterranean from Tana to Cairo and Marseille to Isfahan prior to the emergence of nation states. It provides not only an analytical toolbox for historical diaspora studies but also reveals how, under the looming threat of crusade and within the daily routines of trade, diasporic groups and their hosts negotiated modes of coexistence that oscillated between cooperation and conflict, integration and rejection, union and separation.
Author | : International Transport Forum |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2009-06-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9282102254 |
This Round Table publication discusses the policy and regulatory challenges posed by the rapidly changing port environment.
Author | : Stephen Feinstein |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781598451016 |
"Examines the life of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, including his birth and early sea voyages, his famed discovery of the New World, and his legacy in American history"--Provided by publisher.