Genova_Italy_ Sea Museum

Navigating in history

Galata Museo del Mare is to get on board, one identifies with the lives of sailors, passengers and emigrants.The largest maritime museum stands in the Italian maritime museum design for quality and innovation of its econstructions. Even today, in front of an audience made up of various people, ages and backgrounds and often far from the sea and its culture, the Galata impacts with his ability to immerse the visitor in the careful reconstruction, high-quality scientific and formal, designed to allow better representation of an era, a type of ship, the life that was lived on board.



The tour is divided into twenty-three large rooms, spread over four floors plus a roof terrace Mirador and dedicated to the permanent exhibition, the thematic sections and Saletta art, temporary exhibitions reserved.



The theme of the trip is one of the leitmotifs of the visit to the Galata Museo del Mare: travel,while relying on the development of technical means of transport, have always brought the unexpected to challenge the man who reserve the seas and oceans. The exhibition of the museum, following a chronological order, is identified on a journey that begins on the ground floor the age of rowing boats, continues on the first and second floors of the sailing ships on the route and revolutionary geographical exploration, moving to third floor entirely dedicated to travel to America.



Please visit the interactive exhibition "La Merica! Ellis island from Genoa to the voyage of the great Italian emigration in the years" and the interactive room called "Steamer", the visitor can experience the great journey to America at the time of the emigrants. From spring 2011 two new destinations to which to emigrate: Brazil and Argentina.



In autumn 2011, the Galata renew the entire 3 rd floor with the new pavilion MEM - Memory and Migration, devoted to the themes of Italian immigrants in the Americas in the last century, including an area reserved to the problems of new immigrants in Italy (almost certain the presence of one of the boats that landed in Lampedusa).





To highlight again the Waterfront Project for the Renzo Piano, with its archive, and the rooftop terrace MIRA Genoa. Inside the Galata Open Air Museum, open air museum with old photographic panels and cranes, has been a great success with the public opening of the submarine Nazario Sauro, the largest Italian submarine became the first ship-visited museum in Italy water, which is an integral part of the museum.



In the next post, we will forward in the historical center of Genoa, in Carruggi: is the term used to indicate the characteristic Genoese language and narrow porches and / or shady streets of many towns and villages in the Ligurian Riviera.

Genoa_Italy_Submarine Nazario Sauro

Submarine Nazario Sauro

The Nazario Sauro was a submarine of the Italian Navy, part of the first series of Class Sauro, delivered to the MMI 12 February 1980.The boat takes its name from Lieutenant Nazario Sauro, Gold Medal for Military Valour, patriot and member of the First World War Italian irredentism.After 20 years of military activity in the largest Italian submarine S-518 Nazario Sauro becomes the first ship-visited museum in Italy in the water.This important new feature is integrated with the Galata Museo del Mare the finest maritime museum in Italy, which boasts an offer from the best museum in Europe.





Before visiting the submarine, the visitor participates in a pre-show at 'inside of the museum where there is information on the lives of submariners and you can play virtual reality and enter the submarine.At the end of this course are awarded a diploma in interactive sommeriblisita and the fun begins visit to Nazario Sauro.Il of interactive pre-show is enjoyable and informative and makes you appreciate life through video of the sailors who painstakingly rebuilt with the original evidence as a typical day.





The videos are faithful finctions made with the actors of the Teatro Stabile of Genoa, which describe the work of the driver. You can try the periscope, the beds where sailors slept on the climb out tower, and after much excitement finally down to the Wharf to climb aboard the 'S-518.It comes down from the stern of the submarine with protective helmets equipped with audio guide. The stern is the area where the engines are located, and you'll immediately notice that in this magical atmosphere of noise and smells of oils powerful machines that we have entered into a unique world. Continue to the door of the Thermal and the three major engines seem to go running, but are just conditioned to give a realistic reconstruction without molesting the visitor.





In addition the engine room, the climate is more muted, discreet interrupted by the radio operator on board that ship listening obsessively repeats his message: "This November India Sierra Alpha step." To the right faces in an accommodation with eight bunks narrow: it is the accommodation Marshals.





The tour continues along a narrow corridor and down came the voice of the 'crew, is the guard that is going away to the canteen where there is the social life of the boat. "First Meal! First Meal!" cries the speaker and it is their turn to the first group of sailors to eat.





Leaving the dining hall, continue and enter the brain of the boat: the Chamber of Manovra.Da here come the electrical signals to all parts of the submarine there are two periscopes, radar, the wheelhouse, but the most fascinating is the Sactis station that collects operational information and indicates potential targets on the screen. It passes the formal framework and we can see that there is some coffee while the commander is a briefing with his staff.





It then opens a door, vertical, narrow and low: it is the 'ordered 36. Through this you go to 'last room and is immediately invested by a metallic noise. "Ping! Ping! Ping!" the sound that all submariners fear and means that you have been discovered by a hostile or some weapon you are hunting.Continue on the left side and you see the very basic toilets and showers and cold. And here is the legendary Torpedo Launch Tubes staying siluti MK48 with high potential of TNT warheads. In short visit ends telling you this beautiful life of submariners with the limits of the impossible and perhaps making you more aware of other experiences different from yours.

Genoa_Porto Antico and The Aquarium of Genoa

The day July 4, from Lerici, the direction of Genoa, the time it appeared unstable, cloudiness and rainy.

Old Port of Genoa

The Old Port is a part of the port of Genoa is currently used as a residential area, tourist, cultural and services divided into two areas given in concession by the state companies Porto Antico SpA and Marina Porto Antico S.p.A. area and directly managed by the city of Genoa.Its rehabilitation was completed in the early nineties on the surface of what once was the heart of the port - the kingdom of camallo that were part of the Caravan Company - which had remained unused for many decades in fact.



The Galleon "Neptune"



In 1986, the film director Roman Polanski decided to make the film Pirates (Pirates) with the famous actor Walter Matthau in the title role. As set, the director decided to use a precise historical reconstruction of a galleon of 1600, specially built by a Tunisian site.



Aquarium of Genoa



The Aquarium of Genoa is the first largest aquarium in Italy and the second in Europe after the one in Valencia, Spain. It is located in Ponte Spinola, ancient port of Genoa in the sixteenth century, in a structure designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and can be reached from Genoa Principe railway station, underground station ;San Giorgio; and from the highway west of Genoa.



It was inaugurated in 1992 for the Columbus celebrations, that the Expo to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, was later extended several times. At the time of its opening was the second largest aquarium in the world.



The path of about 2 hours and 30 minutes unfolds over a total area of 9,700 square meters.The original body (39 tanks) provides a path in the middle of ponds which are home to many reptiles and fish, and reconstruct the original habitats of the species, with clear educational purpose.



Of particular value are the three large tanks that contain, respectively, dolphins, sharks and, third, seals and turtles as well as countless other species of fish. The dolphins are not always visible to the public because they are moved in rotation in 3 tanks, of which only one is visible to the public.



The expansion of the aquarium has been exploiting the spaces of the hull of a ship (ship called Italy) which has a large amount of open ponds.Registered trademark of the Aquarium of Genoa.



In many of these visitors can dip their hands and touching live fish (tanks tactile). There are only marine species, but also animals of the rain forests or freshwater.



The aquarium water is drawn off the coast and is housed in four tanks on the side of the two plans. The water is cleaned and disinfected and then placed in the tanks, all equipped with mechanical and biological filtration systems.



In 2008 it was visited by 1,212,000 people.