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know this city
I imagine many of you will know it in
half of this slate quarry
he defined the French poet paul valéry
Genoese adoption I am infinity
of small worlds to discover
we better descend these roofs
slate in piazza finelli a small one
square located between underworld and ancient
arcades that once gave
directly on the sea the carob smile
current via san luca
the palace enters the pinelli palace
see in the image behind me it
we pass the first ramp of
stairs and we will find ourselves in front of a wall
beautifully remembered by the gioni
reasons are majolica tiles that
in ancient times they decorated many palaces
I am a Genoese historian
but not only the campaign of St. Augustine
a few steps with the theater exactly the
you know they can see right away it is
also entirely revised by these
ancient art form
the term reason derives from the Arabic al
suleja platt word originated from
Spanish azulejos and a Neapolitan region
the reasons are without witnesses
that melting pot of that mixture of
cultures and artistic expenditure of peoples
overlooking the Mediterranean and is
precisely it is precisely the traffics of
tour after in the mediterranean that they do yes
that this form of art reaches Genoa
in the city there are numerous palaces that
they still have reasons kept long
stairways and the logic
one of these is our own
pinelli palace have been love
carefully a reason
we will notice three small defects
they are due to culture during the
baking and the jolie were stacked
mediating 3t spacers once
once the culture was over, they were disconnected and
they remained to three small defects ie
three small deficiencies of enamel reasons
notes were cooked with the face
pointing down to make sure
that are not affected during the
fired from ashes and which damaged them
so he ruined that he did so
they still study today though
today small castings of color or small
defects
they are part of the first lodge
plan of the pinelli palace if it happens
to go there you will see that next and right
there are two slate sessions
here we owe women and 500 a
talk to each other and observe without
to be seen by passers-by there
below he passed a point in the square
pinelli
I’ve often seen myself in the
right there in these sessions the slate e
in the silence it seemed to me for a moment
to the other to see a woman appear
of the five hundred or listen to the voices
of passersby
below they might pass by carriage or
born from age three on their sedans
here is one of the things that most me
fascinates of the alleys and genoa that I would like
to transmit you is just this
the palaces on its rival genoa with the
their age-old story give me the
possibility of living for a moment
life of others lived
hundreds of years ago I like to call it
a jump in the past a few meters from
home
let’s get back to this pinelli family
he knows from books history made his fortune
trading with Spain under the domain
Arabic and in particular with seville
and it is precisely seville that we find
even today, the christie’s home became
build house of the joint with the
magic network also turned off mind
decorated for reasons we leave the building
pinelli direction sottoripa before
add the bank policies we should
take a narrow alley I say
pinelli we look down we can
note the signs that are still evident today
the beloved wheels have left over the centuries
I other charges from the square
loading where they loaded precisely at
goods to reach then saying to the
city we finally square on pole
sisto ripa piazza loading
if where a tower fascinates
medieval tower of the dead
but first to look up
this tower gives an eye to the stones
that is the basis of this tower
at the entrance to the narrow alley of qom
orcs as you will notice via an inscription the
no reconstruction of the facades of the site
Genoese historian as in this case has
made sure that written like this
now the walls between the allied police
1945 are still visible today on
written specifically to prevent the i
soldiers both to enter the alleys and
in their dangers theft fights
prostitution maybe something you still do
today and so it is right that you still have it
evident to the day to date the writing
It also succeeds you see it is not lawful of
strip off limits to the light trucks
the writing so to say not very evident
because you fear a small caruggio saw
own banners put in the alleys more
they were wide at the historical perimeter
Genoese
and these we say these gullies like
you see he was saying over bones is off
saint blonde area limits as I am
doing so the soldiers were warned
dot entering the alleys as I said
first in the narrowest alleys there was
that written hollow for the writing
written on the walls
in addition to it he often turned a tripod
therefore a physical impediment
loosening the alleys with written danger
danger that more evident than not
went but arrived in the square loading
let’s look up we’ll see one
beautiful tower laying of the dead e
savona the many towers that
constellated his Genoese historian in
Middle Ages built with large stones of
bonate and with the lookout at the height
like you on the top a triple
beyond the arches this tower shines
together with the nearby palace known center
hosts a famous hotel the cross hotel
of Malta in this hotel sounded a
characters like james fenimore
cooper the author of the last Mohicans
henry james american writer who
he arrived in Genoa in 1877 and so he says
from the hotel rather dirty but also
the biggest boot house had avoided
mary shelley that just genoa in mine
122 after the husband
poor man was drowned in the Gulf of
spice stendhal mark twain and finally
also in Italian giuseppe verdi che
as you know you had taken home to
genoa but before taking home comes
hosted in this hotel happens to me
often or you will imagine
to pass on these pigs and for a
moment
I close my eyes and think about who 28
meet in the nineteenth century to turn to
write to write down in your diary
what he saw to tell them posterity
let’s say to live with seeing me
the experience from the genoa tourist
you will wonder why it’s all
the hotel cross of malta well reading
the chronicles of the time we come to know
this tel
it was one and more exclusive of the city it is
certainly so much did the
word of mouth of those who had already been there
but not only is it told that at the dock
in customs where everything and where
the people of Amara Genova arrived there
they were characters that suggested boves
where to stay this because why
once the tourists leave the hotel
comaschi malta would have received
from the hotelier a generous fee o
you will imagine many if you are a person
they suggested to go and tell them
malt cross
but not only do we learn about one
a doctor who arrived in Genoa
whoever is just excuse me can
take the hotel santa marta and feel like that
answer but sir the holy marta
but he does not know that he was born in fire but comes with
me who took her to the procedure
the tourist if he felt like telling a
stink decided that feels opposite
insospective and if to be brought to the
the hotel santa marta itself
nice hotel but definitely our no
our mortar cross and then
so let’s say the little man he owed
taking her to the hotel would not have received
with high compensation, however, a lot of species
the same and to respect the gossips
I find it healthy and safe is ready to
to welcome him there is also some kind of
tripadvisor ante litteram suggested to
giving the name of the good malt cross
referee nardò of the analysis of the year
where you will stay but be careful when
contracted network with the porter the price
be careful because the distance of the
customs and the hotel is really little
in short, there was a way and a way to be
to scrub rightly here you see how
Imagine reading and for me the stories
of these people who also lived
a subspecies of this hotel gives me
the idea of living the emotion of living
also their their stay but not
only to live also the bouncer agent
agent ska
and here with the deval to Genoa of the time
a tourist who own technicians from
stay was hosted and that
from the rooms of his hotel in the room
the hotel painted the port of
genoa
in this watercolor that we see with vi
they tell first among the many who were
hosted cost tv james fenimore
cooper of the author the last of the Mohicans
which arrived in Genoa on 27 February of
1829
and so they write friend are acqua de
mortar that directly overlooks the
you can not understand the emotion of
watch the ships in port to listen
the shouts of the sailors and to smell
the business smell I imagine was
fried mixed or otherwise the time of
to eat that is still alive today
those places in continuous so yesterday I have
passed the port meticulously with the
beloved of a little boy unleashed like
you will imagine this definition lo
I willingly do my own and even I should want
say frigate they are true
told today image in which I find myself
much among the many who stay here
white there was also mark twain childbirth and
of just genoa in 1867 and saw how
the city of beautiful buildings and tells him one
city that has many beautiful buildings inside
they are sumptuous while externally
shabby and senseless
when architectural cites have beautiful
large stone walls and stairways
marble paved with large walls
portraits of rubens tiziano veronesi e
portraits of unarmed feathered 2 ancestors
then innovated women in love with the
Genoese women say that the genoa
superb it would be a great title if there
he referred to the sensuality of his
women
mark twain is literally kidnapped by the
beauty and the women of Genoa that he
observe walking especially to whom
you want to genoa you know the acquasola a
Genoese park certainly the city where
he often goes and remains enchanted by the
beauty of the genoa women we will not know
never if our brands succeeded in
conquer the heart of some Genoese
for sure we all know his
aphorism in which the bed is defined
as a place for the things of the world
as it generally dies there
eighty percent of the population
read the words of my martin
city made me reflect a lot
little boy I read two soli de chevet e
image you have also read them
adventures of tom sawyer and adventures
huckleberry finn are books for me
spectacular exciting and often me
I’m imagined being there with them a
make marachelle then these brats on
mississippi these places that I never have
seen then profit or then or less though
never seen the era so wonderful
also however stau rea of legend
well, among these books he
that he was born and raised his goodness
of life and writing that places itself
for me so marvelous at once
his life leaves everything goes away and comes here
in my city in my genoa e
he remains enthusiastic about her
here in the light of mine what is there
told so far and my experience
of wandering alleys and in the
study them as well as I would like
send you my what matters is
just that of never ceases to amaze you
to have when you walk in a place
you know not once same
city as the eyes of the gods happen to me
children the beloved
the little boy unleashed as he said jeans
first busy writing his own
experience turned with the look
enthusiastic I must entice the
reflection
today I wrote you a very small one
handkerchief of earth but it too has in it
a multi-purpose gem is so many
treasures to discover
my experience took me to mar
to count my city, but this genoa
It is valid for all the world do not let that
what surrounds you is only a palace
a tower a beautiful landscape something that
a little one slips on me too
tile must entice the
reflection study discover studied
the story of that place and when
you will come back as it seems to me
to recognize it will always become or how
most of you will hear the sound
people who lived the facts
that happened to him
in short, it will become part of you
which without you you have done a
jump into the past a few meters from home
thank you
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