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One of the container terminals of the port and the city of Genoa in the background. The Port of Genoa is one of the most important seaports in Italy. With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy after the port of Trieste by cargo tonnage. [4] Notably the port was used for dismantling the Costa Concordia following ...
In 2011, Genoa, like other European cities, suffered disastrous flooding. In 2013, 11 deaths resulted from the collapse of the control tower of Genoa's port after being hit by the cargo ship Jolly Nero. In 2014, the sunken wreck from the Costa Concordia was transported to the port of Genoa to be broken up.
The history of the historic core of the Ligurian capital is totally linked to the city's history, from the beginnings of the construction of the first dwellings of the Ligurians on the hill of Castello, to the Roman period, along the years of the Maritime Republics (of which the annalist Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone, known simply as the Caffaro, kept note), to the patriotic and ...
Territories of the Republic of Genoa, around the Mediterranean & Black Sea coasts Guglielmo Embriaco portrayed on the main façade of the Palazzo San Giorgio, Genoa The port and fleet of Genoa in the early 14th century, by Quinto Cenni. Genoa started expanding during the First Crusade. At the time the city had a population of about 10,000.
In 1895, the sailor Augusto Vittorio Vecchi, founder of the Italian Naval League and better known as a writer under the pseudonym Jack la Bolina, wrote General History of the Navy, which was widely circulated and described the military exploits of the maritime cities in chronological order of origin and decay, from Amalfi to Pisa, Genoa and ...
The historical archive of the port of Genoa, preserved in Palazzo San Giorgio, includes documentation from 1870 to 1945, in particular that relating to the expansion of the port, carried out between 1870 and 1888 and the documents of the Autonomous Port Consortium from 1903 to 1945, largely concerning the construction of the port basin of ...
The history of Genoa, of the Genoese and of the republic that held its fate for a long time, but also of the governments that gradually took turns leading the city, to reach the time of the Doges, is traceable through the work of historians who have continued the storytelling work begun at the end of the 11th century by Caffaro Di Caschifellone ...
The participation of the Genoese Fleet in the Crusades (particularly the conquests of Antioch and Acre) enriched it enormously.During the First Crusade, the Genoese Republic obtained Acre (one third of the port's incomes) and Gibelet (present-day Byblos, Lebanon), which become a familiar possession of the Embriaco family, who styled themselves as Lords of Gibelet (1100 – late 13th century).