Stock photography picture of The port of Genoa with liners ferries and sailing ships

ADFFAN - Licenced Caption The port of Genoa with liners ferries and sailing ships Description Genoa—Zena in Genoese is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of ca. 620,000 and the urban area has a population of ca. 890,000. Genua was a city of the ancient Ligurians. Its name is probably Ligurian, meaning "knee" (from Ancient Greek gony "knee"), i.e. "angle", from its geographical position, thus akin to the name of Geneva. Or it could derive from the Celtic root genu-, genawa (pl. genowe), meaning "mouth", i.e., estuary In 1797, under pressure from Napoleon, Genoa became a French protectorate called the Ligurian Republic, which was annexed by France in 1805. This affair is commemorated in the famous first sentence of Tolstoy's War and Peace: Although the Genoese revolted against France in 1814 and liberated the city on their own, delegates at the Congress of Vienna sanctioned its incorporation into Piedmont (Kingdom of Sardinia), thus ending the three century old struggle by the House of Savoy to acquire the city. The king of Piedmont even sent the Bersaglieri to sack the city, defining the Genoese as "scum". The city soon gained a reputation as a hotbed of anti-Savoy republican agitation, although the union with Savoy was economically very beneficial. With the growth of the Risorgimento movement, the Genoese turned their struggles from Giuseppe Mazzini's vision of a local republic into a struggle for a unified Italy under a liberalized Savoy monarchy. In 1860, Giuseppe Garibaldi set out from Genoa with over a thousand volunteers to begin the campaign. This is called the departure of the thousands and a monument is set on the rock where the group departed from. In World War II the British fleet bombarded Genoa and one bomb fell into the cathedral of San Lorenzo without exploding. It is now available to public viewing on the cathedral premises. In 2004, the European Union designated Genoa as the European Capital of Culture, along with the French city of Lille. Keywords Genoa, Genoese, port, city, Liguria, Italy, Italian, Port, trade, ferry, international, blue, sky, wide, open, summer, capital, metropolitan, urban, city, historic, old, ancient, history, er, Mediterranean, sea, clear, invitin, Genoa, Genoese, port, city, Liguria;, Italy, Italian;, Port, trade, ferry, international, historic;, blue, sky, wide, open, summer;, capital, metropolitan, urban, city;, historic, old, ancient, history, era;, "Mediterranean;sea;clear;inviting;transparent;"