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Genoa Piazza Principe Station Central

Genova Piazza Principe Station is the city‘s main transportation hub. With its services, it provides not only a transfer place for ** Genoa ** people and travelers, but also rest during urban and suburban travel.

The Genova Piazza Principe train station (commonly known as Genova Principe or the wrong Genova Porta Principe) is Genoa’s central railway station, located in Piazza Acquaverde, occupying Via Andrea Doria The entire north side - the station is located in the city centre not far from the Palazzo del Principe**, its name. It is used by approximately 66,000 passengers per day and 24 million passengers per year. Piazza del Principe, next to Palazzo del Principe (literally “Prince‘s Palace”), next to Via Andrea Doria, Fassolo street.

The small market is the heart of the original station, occupying the area between Piazza del Principe, Via Andrea Doria and Piazza Acquaverde, where the main entrance is.

Inside the station

The platform for the departure/arrival of most long-distance trains in the station is connected to the main entrance via two passages below the line. On the platform of the main part of the station (on the ground), one of the passages enters through stairs and elevators, and the other enters through escalators and stairs. However, the way the elevator enters and exits the platform is only one escalator into the main hall of the station - when we are there it is in the upward direction. It consists of several layers: * The basement floor is mainly occupied by the technical room and the railway warehouse; * The track layer below the ground floor is almost entirely occupied by the technical room, warehouse, commercial activities and catering services; * The first floor consists of the Traveler Building Commercial activities and passenger services; * The remaining levels are occupied only by railway offices and facilities.

Common international route

• EuroCity Services (EC, Thello) Marseille - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia - Genoa - Milan
• Night train (Russian Railway) Nice - Milan - Innsbruck - Vienna - Warsaw - Minsk Moscow

Local transportation

Genoa public transport business (AziendaMobilitàe Trasporti, AMT), Ferrovia Principe-Granarolo railway rack and Ascensore Castello of Albertis-Montegalletto elevator, there is a bus every hour to connect to the airport through the Christopher Columbus Volabus service. The exit of the Principe metro station is just a few metres from the Principe station of Genoa Metro (also managed by AMT) and the thermal sea terminal of Genoa.

Varese (UK: və-RAY-zay, -⁠zee, US: var-AY-say, Italian: [vaˈreːze] or [vaˈreːse]; Varesino: Varés [ʋaˈreːs]; Latin: Baretium; archaic German: Väris) is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 kilometres (34 mi) north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 has reached 80,559.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.

Genoa ( JEN-oh-ə; Italian: Genova [ˈdʒɛːnova] ; Ligurian: Zêna [ˈzeːna]; English, historically, and Latin: Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Genoa, which in 2015 became the Metropolitan City of Genoa, counted 855,834 resident persons. Over 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera.Located on the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean: it is currently the busiest in Italy and in the Mediterranean Sea and twelfth-busiest in the European Union. Genoa has been nicknamed la Superba ("the proud one") due to its glorious past and impressive landmarks. Part of the old town of Genoa was inscribed on the World Heritage List (UNESCO) in 2006 as Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli. The city's rich cultural history in art, music and cuisine allowed it to become the 2004 European Capital of Culture. It is the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, Andrea Doria, Niccolò Paganini, Giuseppe Mazzini, Renzo Piano and Grimaldo Canella, founder of the House of Grimaldi, among others. Genoa, which forms the southern corner of the Milan-Turin-Genoa industrial triangle of Northwest Italy, is one of the country's major economic centers. The city has hosted massive shipyards and steelworks since the 19th century, and its solid financial sector dates back to the Middle Ages. The Bank of Saint George, founded in 1407, is among the oldest in the world and has played an important role in the city's prosperity since the middle of the 15th century. A number of leading Italian companies are based in the city, including Fincantieri, Selex ES, Ansaldo Energia, Ansaldo STS, Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone, Piaggio Aerospace, Mediterranean Shipping Company and Costa Cruises.