Genoa

Genoa has a long history of beauty and style, through the Middle Ages when Genoese merchants imported beautiful silks and precious spices; in the Baroque times when Pieter Paul Rubens indicated the sumptuous dwellings of the Genoese aristocracy as a model for every European gentleman; and contemporary Genoa shines with the elegant plays of light and wind created by one of its most famous citizens, Renzo Piano.