June 29 Tourists for a Day (Day 276)
We boarded a Hop-On-Hop-Off bus today to visit nearby Boccadasse, a tiny fishermen’s village turned touristy beach enclave.
The village still has active fishermen who supply the local restaurants with the fresh catch of the day!
The pastel hued buildings encircling the tiny pebble beach create a typical Ligurian scene reminiscent of the Cinque Terre further south along the coast!
On the terrace from where these pictures were taken is the Church of Sant’ Antonio of Boccadasse, originally built as a chapel in the 1600’s by the local fishermen and enlarged over the ensuing centuries. It is decorated with model ships hanging in alcoves,
and surprisingly modern stained glass windows.
Marine themes are depicted in the vibrantly colored stained glass!
After lunch by the small beach in Boccadasse where it was getting increasingly hot and humid, we returned to central Genoa to relax before dinner. I went on a quest to find an open ATM machine to get some Euros, which was unsuccessful, but I happened on some beautiful scenes!
A beautifully decorated building with an elaborate shrine.
I wandered into a huge church at a busy intersection, Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, and marveled at the gilt decoration, the paintings and the sculpture!
This is actually a sculpture, so constructed as to look like a painting! It is lighted by a skylight hidden in the recess above the angels!