Italians seem to love pumpkin, too, which makes sense, since Christopher Columbus, who returned from the New World with pumpkin seeds, was a native of Genoa.
Salvatore Accardo, one of the top fiddlers of the day, evokes the ultimate violin virtuoso, Niccolo Paganini, playing his Fourth Concerto on one of the master's own violins, a Guarneri del Gesu known as the Cannon and owned by Paganini's native city, Genoa.
A bespectacled Genoa native, Mr. Luisi is reserved yet approachable.
Nearby, you can see thousands of species of fish at the modern aquarium, designed by the Genoa native Renzo Piano.
Sutherland afterward sang in Venice, Vienna, Dallas Texas, Parisis, Barcelona (Spain), Genoa (Italy, Milan, San Francisco, Chicagoo, and her native Sydney.
Saturday 10 a.m. 4) HARBOR WALK With a little help from Renzo Piano, native son and star architect, the wharfs along Genoa's old port, known as the Porto Antico, have been transformed into bustling, palm-lined promenades full of cafes, restaurants and a biosphere suspended over the water.
GENOA, Italy ― Five centuries after one native of this port town ventured west into the Atlantic in hopes of opening up global trade, another is working hard to shut it down.
With the same quasi-religious fervor that the British filmmaker Terence Davies compiles Proustian memories of his native Liverpool in "Of Time and the City" this film seeks to conjure the essence of Genoa, a city of about 600,000, between the Ligurian Sea and the Apennine Mountains.
An appeals court in Genoa ruled that a couple could not name their son Friday, because it recalled the native servant in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," a figure the judges said was "characterized by his role of subjection and inferiority".
