Day 10 : July 07,2008        AC Hotel Genova****
 

AC Genova Hotel is strategically located only a few meters from the Nervi highway exit and only 10 minutes from the historic centre of Genoa. Offering easy access to the city centre and excellent connections to the surrounding areas, the hotel presents itself as the ideal base for stop-over in Genoa. Restaurant, 24-Hour Front Desk, Non-Smoking Rooms, Rooms/Facilities for disabled guests.

The hotel has 139 rooms equipped with all modern comforts. Rooms specially designed for the disabled are provided, along with no- smoking rooms.
AC Hotel Genova also has a garage and a large outside car park, a fitness centre, a solarium and six day-light and tech meeting rooms. These halls are also available for coffee-breaks and business lunches in a pleasant and relaxed environment.

All 139 soundproofed rooms are equipped with private bathroom in green marble with professional hairdryer and courtesy set, internet connection, SAT TV, minibar, air conditioning.
Breakfast Buffet and Restaurant "Gli Ulivi" that offers a rich menu with typical regional and international dishes..
The interiors are elegantly decorated with modern furniture and the property offers a fitness centre with sauna. The hotel is an ideal choice both for those travelling on business and for those who want to spend a pleasant, relaxing and comfortable holiday.

  ON THE ROAD   

Genoa (in Italian Genóva), capital of the region of Liguria, lies in the Gulf of Genoa (Golfo di Genova), the northern bay of the Ligurian Sea. Genoa is a conurbation (Greater Genoa) extending from Nervi to Voltri for a distance of 35km/22mi along the coast. It is Italy's leading port ... More

and center of maritime trade, ranking with Marseilles as one of the two principal Mediterranean ports. It is also a university town and the see of an archbishop. Genoa, known as "la Superba" on account of its splendid marble palaces, has a magnificent situation, particularly when seen from the sea, rising in a wide arc on the lower slopes of the Ligurian Apennines.The old town is a maze of narrow streets, many of them steep, which are filled with the colorful and noisy activity of a Mediterranean town.

The new parts of the town with their tall modern buildings, gardens and villas lie in the plain at the mouth of the River Bisagno and on the higher ground to the north and west.

The Cinque Terre, are five coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in the Liguria region of Italy. They have come to be among the most popular areas of Italy among tourists. The coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all encapsulated in a national park by the same name.

The Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Five miles of rocky coast in eastern Liguria, two promontories lie at each extremity, thousands of kilometres of dry walling, cultivated into vineyards, five southerly villages castled up on spurs of stone or disposed in clusters of very small inlets. These are the co-ordinates of the Cinque Terre (Five lands).

Geologically, the landscape was created by a series of folds which were formed when the rocks were pushed, raised and pressed together in the Tertiary period. Millions of years of erosion have slowly given shape to countless small peninsulas and bays between the two extreme promontories: 'Punta Cavo of Montenero' and 'Punta Mesco'. The ancient "Etruscan Road" was brought back into use by the Romans, bringing both trade and commerce to the Cinque Terre. It was abandoned again during the rule of the Republic of Genoa. Perhaps the area has preserved all its natural and untouched beauty because the road was abandoned again.