GENOA:

Anne's Travel Journal:

 

February 15, 1939 – Genoa

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We got away to a late start as time changed an hour which we didn’t know about.  We saw the beautiful cemetery which Dr. N___ says is the most famous in the world.  It has such lovely old statuary - some by very famous sculptors - and likenesses of the ones buried there.  The statuary is so thick in the cemetery that it seems like a big field of white flowers from a distance.  There are chapels and shrines all around – one with 33 steps up to first landing for Christ’s age, and 10 to the top for the 10 Commandments. The city has many monuments, the most famous of which is to Christopher Columbus, who was born at Genoa.  There is a lovely fountain in the center of the city which we saw at least 8 times from one direction and another.  We took the high drive to the Righi and were very sorry.  I was so nervous, I was almost in the bottom of the car all the time.  Paul shut his eyes and resigned himself to his fate.  But we made it back to the ship safely in spite of our qualms.  We had lunch on the ship and shopped afterward with Mrs. F___.  It was good to get back to the ship at 4:30 as she sailed at 5 for Naples.  We saw Columbus’s home and tried to get a picture of it, but the streetcars and traffic were so thick that it was difficult to snap.  We went in a big old Cathedral – very old and very cold.  The old keeper, with a great bunch of keys, hustled us out in a hurry as everything closed at 12 and a big clock was striking 12 noon.  Everything closes up- shops, etc.- from 12 till 2 on the Continent, just when we wanted to shop.  Our time was so short everywhere we had to hustle to get in all the sightseeing, and so shopping was neglected or confined to postcards.  Our table steward lives at Genoa and he told us of a shopping district off Via Roma - the Galleria – but we couldn’t locate anything to buy.  We were 15 minutes from the ship and getting anxious to get back.  We were going by train the next day to Rome, leaving at 8 from Naples, and we needed some sleep in preparation.  We had early dinner and went to bed at 9:30.  We left a call for 5:45.

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Anne and Paul seemed to have rushed through Genoa.  They did not take any photos (or at least Anne did not paste any in her scrapbook).  The souvenirs they brought back were 2 handsome bound books of postcards.  Perhaps Anne and Paul felt that these contained all the photos of Genoa they needed to remember that port-of-call.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next...the Stillmans dock at Naples and board their first Continental train

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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