Genoa Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

Buses to international cities depart from Piazza della Vittoria, as do buses to/from Milan’s Malpensa airport (€16, two hours, twice daily at 6am and 3pm) and other inter-regional services. Tickets are sold at Geotravels (010 59 28 37; geotravels@statcasale.com; Piazza della Vittoria 30r) and Pesci Viaggi e Turismo (010 56 49 36; pesciros@tin.it; Piazza della Vittoria 94r).

Train

Genoa’s Stazione Principe and Stazione Brignole are linked by train to Turin (€15, 1¾ hours, seven to 10 daily), Milan (€15.50, 1½ hours, up to eight daily), Pisa (€15, two hours, up to eight daily) and Rome (€36.50, 5¼ hours, six daily). Stazione Principe tends to have more trains, particularly going west to San Remo (€13, two hours, five daily) and Ventimiglia (€15, 2¼ hours, six daily).

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Boat

Ferries sail to/from Spain, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Tunisia from the international passenger terminal (terminal traghetti; 24hr information 166 152 39 393; www.porto.genova.it; Via Milano 51). Only cruise ships use the 1930s passenger ship terminal on Ponte dei Mille.

Fares listed following are for one-way, low-/high-season deck-class tickets. Ferry operators based at the international passenger terminal include the following:

Grandi Navi Veloci (800 46 65 10, 010 254 65; www.gnv.it) Ferries to/from Sardinia (Porto Torres year-round €34/75, Olbia June to September €38/77) and year-round to/from Sicily (Palermo €70/110).

Moby Lines (010 254 15 13; www.mobylines.it) Ferries year-round to/from Corsica (Bastia €17/32) and Sardinia (Olbia €35/65).

Tirrenia (800 82 40 79; www.tirrenia.it) Ferries and high-speed boats year-round to/from Sardinia (Porto Torres €25/50, Olbia €28/38, Cagliari July to September €45), with connections to Sicily.

From June to September, Cooperativa Battellieri del Golfo Paradiso (018 577 20 91; www.golfoparadiso.it) operates boats from the Porto Antico to Camogli (one way/return €10/15), Portofino (€10/15), the Cinque Terre (€17/25) and Porto Venere (€17/25) on the Riviera di Levante.

Consorzio Liguria Via Mare (010 26 57 12; www.liguriaviamare.it) runs a range of seasonal trips from here to Camogli, San Fruttuoso and Portofino, Monterosso in the Cinque Terre, and Porto Venere.

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Air

Regular domestic and international services, including Ryanair flights, use Christopher Columbus airport (Aeroporto Internazionale di Cristoforo Colombo; GOA; 010 601 54 10; www.airport.genova.it), 6km west of the city in Sestri Ponente.

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