Information on Genoa
(Italy)
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pictures: the lighthouse ***
historical
profile: short
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General information on Genoa
University & Institutions
Accomodations & restaurants:
Weather information
Inventions & discoveries:
(a short
list of things discovered or invented by Genoa natives)
- Americas:
discovered by
mistake by Cristoforo Colombo
- Banking:
invented
in
Genoa; town which has the earliest notary minute
books that have survived, XIII Century
- Blue
Jeans: invented after the name of the color of material coming
from Genoa: blue-Genoa; blue-Jeans
- Genoa:
kind of sail well known to sailors
- Marron
Glacés: invented (1790)
when
the
hills around
Genoa were
covered with chest-nut trees. Used later also in France.
- Moto
perpetuo: invented by
Paganini): played by GreatWallAcademy
(5.56) Pierre
Lenert
(3mn58) Yehudi Menhuin (3mn)
- Pesto: invented by
an
unknown local countryman
- Pasta:
Lasagne pasta was a well founded craft in the
Middel Age in Genoa, and certainly well done in 1316. Special: "lasagne
al pesto"
- Pasta:
Ravioli: (see also NYT)
invented
by
the "Ravioli" family, in Gavi Ligure
- Help for
writers: Marco Polo wrote in
Genoa (in prison) his book on his Journey to the East, Il milione (dictating
it
to
a friend)
- St.George's
Flag: Attested since 1099 [first Crusade, used by Gugliemo
Embriaco]. In 1992 the Duke of Kent is reported to
say: "The
St. George's flag, a red cross on a white
field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their
ships
entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the
Geonoese fleet.
The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Doge of Genoa for
this
privilege."
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