Getting around Genoa is completely easy as the city is a kind of rainbow stripe among the sea and the mountains. Once you have fixed some main base points, the modern Expo area, for example, or the Romanic cathedral of San Lorenzo or if you go further by car the Lanterna, the ancient light at the entrance of the port, symbol of the town, you can easily go around. Not many street people know the English language but you can find around the main town sites traffic wardens with the languages flags on the arm. You can also ask information to public museums or palaces officials where people can speak different languages.

Traveling around by car is nice so you can easily take a view of the town. Within an easy reach you can go up to the hills and to see the entire town with its beautiful coast. Things are getting worse if you plan to go viewing or shopping around the center. It is better to park in the allowed areas (there is also a parking area for foreigners in Piazza Matteotti but it is quite small) and go by bus or just walking.

Traveling around by bus is maybe the best choice. One ticket costs 0.75 Euros and it lasts for 1 and half our all around the town including the tube. There are special tickets in accordance to the period you intend to go around during the day or the week or the month. Tickets are not sold on the bus but you can find them at newsagents, tobacconists, and many other shops around town.

AMT administers the dense network of busses and the unique metropolitan line of Genoa, along with comfortable elevators and trams, allowing visitors to ascend from the city center to the high mountains in just a few minutes. A daily pass is available at a discounted rate, valid on the entire urban network of the AMT. Another valuable offer is the Card Musei, which allows visitors entry to all the museums of the city as well as free use of the AMT public transportation system.

Genoa possesses a small tube line which runs only in one part of the town. So if you do not have particular places to go that are specifically mentioning the tube, forget about it. You can go around the town by bicycle. It is a very good personal choice but while it is nice (apart from traffic cars) around the outskirt and the riviera of the town, it is not quite so in the town center and besides you can inhale more benzine in this way than going walking or by car.