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Genoa sided with the Spanish to give Emperor Charles V access, via Milan, to his German territories, and later became a lucrative clearinghouse for Spain’s newly discovered American silver.
For relaxation, the Italian Riviera east and west of Genoa alternates a rugged coastli ne with the occasional fine sandy beach.
Hemmed in between the Apennine mountains and the sea, for centuries Genoa tended, like historic rival Venice on the east coast, to turn its back on Italy and seek its fortune on the high seas.
The Guelf-Ghibelline conflict became a pretext for settling family feuds (such as the one typified in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet) or communal rivalries, from which Genoa and Florence emerged stronger than ever.
The maritime republic of Genoa rose to challenge Venice’s supremacy.