Category: Genoese Tales

Luna Rossa’s Black Sails

The main part of the sails produced in North Sails’ U.S. factories, but design and finishing for Luna Rossa in the Ligurian factories in Carasco.

Saiwa

The story begins in 1900, in the pastry shop in Via Galata in Genoa. Here the entrepreneur Pietro Marchesi, having returned from a trip to England…

Gaetano Pesce

Gaetano Pesce (La Spezia, 8 November 1939 – New York, 3 April 2024) was an Italian sculptor, designer and architect. Pesce was one of the leading exponents of Italian design.

Goffredo Mameli

Goffredo Mameli was born in Genoa on 5 September 1827 to an Admiral of the Sardinian Navy and the Marchesa Adelaide Zoagli Lomellini. Casa Mameli was frequented by various Genoese intellectuals.

Gilberto Govi

Amerigo Armando Gilberto Govi was an Italian actor. Founder of the Genoese dialect theatre, he is considered one of the symbols of the city of the Lantern.

Tessuto jeans

Jeans originated in the Republic of Genoa. It was reinvented in 1871 as we know it today by the tailor Jacob Davis and patented with Levi Strauss on 20 May 1873.

n 1939, Giuseppe Olmo a.k.a. ‘Gepìn’ founded Olmo Biciclette: in just a few years, the most high-performance and technically advanced racing bicycles of the period came out of the factory in Celle Ligure.

“Bresh”

Bresh, pseudonimo di Andrea Brasi (Lavagna, 28 giugno 1996), è un cantautore e rapper italiano. Appartiene al collettivo Drilliguria, insieme ai più noti talenti del rap ligure della sua generazione.

Sandro Pertini

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Pertini, called Sandro, was born in Stella (Savona) on 25 September 1896 into a wealthy family.

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915. His mother Dolly was of Ligurian origin while his father Martin was of Sicilian descent.