Italy Travel And Hotel Guide

Near the airfield west of Genoa is the industrial suburb of Sestri Ponente , a grim collection of blast furnaces, smelting works and housing projects. Local trains and the slow buses #1, #2 or #3 from Piazza Caricamento pass through here to PEGLI , and the romantic Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini , which is set in lavish grounds landscaped in nineteenth-century fantasy style (gardens Tues-Sun: April-Sept 9am-7pm; Oct-March 9am-5pm; L7000/¬3.61). The villa now houses the Museo Civico di Archeologia Ligure (Tues-Thurs 9am-7pm, Fri-Sun 9am-1pm; L6000/¬3.10), where items unearthed from cave burials in the hills along the west coast include the skeleton of a “Young Prince” with seashell crown and ceremonial dagger.

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