Your Experience

Explore Genoa's UNESCO historic center on a walking dinner tour with a progressive dinner across several local venues.

Getting started

Join your guide in central Genoa and set off on a walking tour through the UNESCO historic center as evening begins. After a short introduction to the route and pace, you move straight into the alleys and squares of the old town. From here, the first of several carefully selected local venues on your progressive dinner awaits.

What to expect

UNESCO historic center of Genoa

You explore one of Europe's largest and best-preserved medieval old towns, recognized as a UNESCO historic center. The route leads you through narrow caruggi, elegant piazzas, and areas that reflect Genoa's long maritime heritage as a powerful maritime republic.

Features

• The walking tour of the UNESCO historic center follows a route that showcases hidden alleys, historic streets, and centuries of urban development, giving you a sense of how Genoa grew as a port city.
• Along the way, your guide highlights the city's maritime heritage with stories about Genoa's role as one of the world's most powerful maritime republics and how that shaped its architecture and food culture.
• Throughout the evening, you enjoy a progressive dinner across several local venues, with each stop serving a different authentic Ligurian specialty as part of a complete meal.
• At these venues, you taste selected traditional local food products, prepared with regional ingredients that reflect authentic Ligurian flavors and everyday Genoese cuisine.
• As you walk and dine, your guide shares anecdotes, stories, and legends about local food and places, using these tales to connect each dish and location to Genoa's traditions and daily life.
• Experiencing Genoa after dark offers a different way to explore, with the evening atmosphere of the streets adding context to the stories and legends about local food and the history of the UNESCO historic center.

Highlights

• Share a progressive dinner in Genoa, moving between several venues so your Ligurian meal becomes an evening walk through the city streets.
• Your night begins on foot in Genoa's old center, as you head toward the first venue and ease into the walk between courses and neighborhoods.
• Follow a set route through Genoa's UNESCO historic center, linking hidden alleys, squares, and venues into successive stops across the medieval core.
• Taste traditional Ligurian recipes while hearing stories, legends, and maritime tales, and feel the old port city shift into life after dark.