Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Heading southwest, elegant Via Roma, with its art nouveau boutiques and adjacent glass-
covered
Galleria Mazzini
, is Genoa's most exclusive designer-shopping street. It links
Piazza Corvetto with Piazza de Ferrari.
Information
010 55 51; Largo Rosanna Benci 10)
Hospital.
Ospedale San Martino
(
Police station
(
010 5 36 61; Via Armando Diaz 2)
Main post office
(Via Dante 4;
8am-6.30pm Mon-Sat)
Post office
(Stazione Principe;
8am-6.30pm Mon-Fri, to 12.30pm Sat)
Tourist offices
Airport
(
10am-1pm & 1.30-6.30pm)
; Via Garibaldi
(
010 601 52 47;
010
9am-6.30pm)
; Piazza Ferrari
(next to Teatro Carlo Felice;
557 29 03; Via Garibaldi 12r;
9am-1pm & 2.30-6.30pm)
Getting There & Away
AIR
Regular domestic and international services, including Ryanair flights to London Stansted,
use
Cristoforo Colombo Airport
(
010 6 01 51;
www.airport.genova.it
)
, 6km west of the city in
Sestri Ponente.
BOAT
Ferries sail to/from Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Tunisia from the
international pas-
senger terminal
(Terminal Traghetti;
www.porto.genova.it
; Via Milano 51)
. Only cruise ships use the
1930s passenger ship terminal on Ponte dei Mille.
Fares listed here are for one-way, low-/high-season deck-class tickets. Ferry operators
based at the international passenger terminal include the following:
erates boats from Porto Antico to Camogli (one way/return €10/15), Portofino (€12/20)
and Porto Venere (€20/35).
Consorzio Liguria Via Mare
(
www.liguriaviamare.it
)
runs a range of seasonal trips to Camogli,
San Fruttuoso and Portofino; Monterosso in the Cinque Terre; and Porto Venere.
Grandi Navi Veloci
(GNV; 010 209 45 91;
www.gnv.it
)
Ferries to Sardinia (Porto Torres, €65,
year-round) and Sicily (Palermo, €69, year-round). Also ferries to Barcelona, Tunis
(Tunisia) and Tangier (Morocco).
