Hotel Continental Genova

Aquarium:
Fifty-nine pools and four million litres of water recreating the habitat of the Mediterranean Sea, the Oceans, the Pole and the Tropics. More than five hundred fish species. These are the qualities of the Aquarium of Genoa, one of the biggest and most modern European sea parks, which is also one of the most popular tourist destinations in our country.

The City of Children:
The City of Children , the product of a joint collaboration with the Cit� des Sciences et de l?Industrie La Villette of Paris, is the largest play and didactic space for children aged 3 to 14 years in Italy . The usual activities of the City of Children include games of the past impracticable in the city quarters, such as: house building, the observation of the mysterious life of ants, small boats sailing and floating in the water? Here children can also experiment with modern technologies: for example a real-life TV Studio is available for the production of classroom news.

Museum of Palazzo Reale:
This sumptuous seventeenth-century building was the noble residence of such patrician families as the Balbi, Durazzo, and Savoia families. The d�cor, works of art and commonplace objects from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, remain intact. Its rooms contain a rich collection of paintings that includes works by Van Dyck, Veronese, Tintoretto, Guercino, Strozzi and some of the most important painters of the Genoese School (Piola, Grechetto, and Schiaffino), along with sculptures by Filippo Parodi. The Genoese furniture collection from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is particularly noteworthy.

Naval Museum:
Within the Renaissance villa that had belonged to Giovanni Andrea Doria are exhibited Genoese maritime collections dating from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries. Here visitors may admire submarine archaeological artifacts (e.g., bombards, serpentines, and artillery); as well as documents, armours, paintings, drawings, navigation instruments, valuable pilot books, models of ancient ships, and various types of vessels and of navigation instruments.

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