Aquarium, Museums and Christmas time

Genova aquarium is front of the ocean and there are many fish and sea creature. You can buy tickets at the tickets office (front of the aquarium) or online. Online is easy and you can skip the line.

Aquarium land area is 33,000 square feet and it was built at 1992 for Genova Expo.

The aquarium includes 70 tanks containing a total of 6,000,000 liters (1,300,000 imp gal; 1,600,000 U.S. gal), and almost 10,000 meters (33,000 ft) of exhibit space. The tanks host 12.000 animals of 400 different species.

It took about two hours for everything, inside there are a small bar also a restaurant. If you want to have drink or snack, you can get there and take a rest.

I want to tell you about some museums at Genova.

One is the Ocean Museum. It is very big building and a lot of exhibits.

The museum's name is "Galata Museo del Mare". This museum opened 2004, 

also  it is the largest museum of its kind in the Mediterranean area and one of the most modern in Italy. 

These are Marco Polo(1254-1324)'s original hand writing papers. He visited several countries by ship.

After that he came back to Venice and he joined army and fought to Genova's army. At that time he was in jail because he was a POW. It is said that he wrote a book about his history there.

Doge's Palace is one nice museums too, this is next to " Piazza de Ferrari", a big fountain. When we visited there, "Escher" exhibited. 

Before we didn't know about him well, but it was a good chance to know about him.

There were lots of paintings, prints and many descriptions. 

So we could see his many works and know about him. 

This is original place,

He sketched right and left opposite,

                                   This is the final work! Fantastic!!!

Close to the central city, There is one beautiful park, the name is 
"Villetta Di Negro". Lots of green and beautiful water fall, also we can see

Genova city from there.

At Christmas, there is fantastic illumination around "Piazza de Ferrari".