Columbus never slept here... and other Genoa, Italy Tourist Trap Tips

Yeah, now almost everyone knows about it, but when I was a little child and discovered that it was really a bad piece of news!
The (supposed) house of Columbus surely is NOT the house of the great navigator who discovered the Americas!
So don't waste your time to go inside it, everything has been rebuilt in the place where (maybe) Columbus used to live, but not surely in that house!

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At Least Do This: Just at the left of the house there is St. Andrew's Cloister, which is the only surviving part of the omonymous monastery.

The cloister was not originally located in the present site, but was moved there later, when the monastery was demolished to open the modern (horrible) square.
Alternative: Go straight to Porta Soprana, then go to Via Ravecca, or along the City Walls (Mura del Barbarossa), they are surely much more interesting!

Well, it's not a "real" tourist trap from any point of view, but better to tell you something about this (looking) old ship. It's not a 17th century galeon, it was built in the 80s fot Roman Polanski's movie "Pirates" with Walter Matthau! So it could be interesting for movie-fans, but remember that it just a reconstruction of a similar old galeon...

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At Least Do This: If you are a Roman Polanski fan you have to see this ship, it won't be a tourist trap for you!
Alternative: Go to the Aquarium or just walk along the nice Expo district