Touring Genoa and its symbols: the view of Genoa from Spianata Castelletto is unmissable, the place is magical.

Spianata Castelletto is the charming terrace overlooking the historic center, offering a spectacular view of the city and the port. From here, you can admire the roofs of the old slate houses, a typical material of this area, medieval towers, and Baroque domes.

In the distance, the sea is animated by modern boats. As a backdrop, the city's heights are dotted with parks, villas, sanctuaries, and crowned by fortresses. It's thrilling to take the Art Nouveau elevator up there.

Casteletto is a residential neighborhood located on the hills overlooking the historic center of Genoa, between the districts of Prè, Maddalena, Portoria, and San Vincenzo to the south, Oregina to the west, and three districts of the Val Bisagno (San Fruttuoso, Marassi, and Staglieno) to the east.

Explanada de Castelletto.

The intensive settlement of the neighborhood was progressively produced starting from the 19th century, when with the urban revolution begun by Carlo Barabino's project the hill was identified as the ideal area for the burgué residential neighborhood, not far from the center and with an enviable panoramic opening over the inhabited center.

Look for the streets of ancient Genoa sung by De Andrè, described by Dickens, Paul Valery and other writers who across the centuries have attempted to capture the soul of the city. Please take a look at the highlights of the Palacios Rolli recognized by UNESCO as a Human Heritage Site. Finally, from Piazza Portello, you take the Castelletto elevator, and from there you connect to paradise, in the words of Giorgio Caproni.

Sales of the elevator and Genoa appear before your eyes, so complicated on the maze of narrow and narrow streets, never banal: on the horizon the port with its large boats and its boats, ideal bottom line for the tejados of the pizarra of the ancient city, like «a stormy petrified sea», like wrote another great Ligurian poet of the twentieth century, Camillo Sbarbaro.

The Esplanade, as the Genoese called it, is the most romantic scenario for young and romantic lovers: including the Genoese couples, they go there to exchange lovers passionate about the light of the candle, listen to romantic songs, hug and dream of strangers contemplating the blue of the sea.

From Spianata Castelletto, the Genoa of the streets, a mysterious and inextricable city appears more comprehensible and its beauty is more evident. The view extends from the East to the West and in some cases you can touch the Lantern, symbol of the city, while the villas of Albaro are lit up in pink at the end. There in the city is Boccadasse, an ancient village that cost just in the city. Just look at it and seem to invite us to a break from the frenzy and a visit to their romantic restaurants on the famous Playa de Guijarros.