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Considered by many to be the finest beach in Genoa, Sturla beach spreads out to either side of the mouth of the Sturla river. One of the first free beaches heading east from the city center it attracts vast numbers of people all through the summer months. Many people also come for the many bars and
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in which they won the championship in 1923, breaking for a single year, a string of successes of their rivals, Andrea Doria, which lasted for twenty years). In more recent times, the water polo team, having missed out on promotion to the A1 league in the early nineties, currently plays in Serie B.
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The historical events of Sturla are closely tied to those of Genoa. Until the start of the 20th century, the area, like the other two municipalities to which it belonged (San
Francesco d'Albaro and San Martino d'Albaro), was made up of small settlements of farmers and fishermen, away from the main
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Vernazzola, separated by the small hill between the Vernazza river and the Sturla river, is the historic core of Sturla, a tiny fishing village, as evidenced by some of the place names, which winds around Via del Tritone, Via Tabarca, Via Zoagli, Vico del Pesce and Via del Bragone.
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Sportiva Sturla has organized since 1969 the "Memorial Morena", an international youth swimming meet, which is held every two years, and the "Miglio Marino di Sturla" swimming competition in the open sea, which has taken place since 1913, which over the years has seen amongst its competitors
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The area of Sturla is marked out by Corso Europa, Via Orsini, the right bank of the Sturla river (from which it takes its name) and the sea. During the 20th century the neighborhood went through a period of extensive construction, but the centers of the original ancient villages are still
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As well as being a fishing village, in the past
Vernazzola was an important landing ground from where it was possible to climb the Sturla valley, on through the quartiere of Bavari and into the upper Bisagno valley. Immediately behind the houses on the shoreline there once stood a
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Today the village, partly reduced in size by the opening immediately upstream of an enlarged road (Via Dei Mille), consists of a few houses clustered around the ancient
Oratorio di San Celso, the existence of which has been documented since 1311 although it was rebuilt in the
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There are several schools in the district. There's a nursery school (Nini
Corsanego) as well as a kindergarten (Bartolomeo Chighizola), both on the road leading from Piazza Sturla to Vernazzola beach. There's also a primary school dedicated to Ettore Vernazza, a middle school
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Sturla is part of the Medio
Levante municipality, and has a population of 8278 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010). In the 1800s the current quartiere was a commune of San Martino d'Albaro, while the village of Vernazzola was a commune of
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era to bring the building, at least in its essential structure, back to its original fifteenth-century form, although the restoration was undertaken in an interpretive and not scientifically rigorous fashion. The church has three
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convent with an adjoining hospital for travellers. In time, behind the coastal buildings there gradually arose grand villas of the aristocratic families of Genoa, and finally, in the early twentieth century, luxurious
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Piazza Sturla was more recently enlarged with a viaduct that leads from Via
Caprera over the valley of the Vernazza river. Small secluded ancient fishing settlements still remain amongst this sea of modern roads.
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in its own right in 1894. In the 1940s the church underwent a major restoration, which involved almost a total renovation of the building. This reconstruction virtually erased the various reconstructions of the
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The church of San Celso, the first religious building built in Sturla, located in Vico del Pesce, not far from the mouth of Sturla river, is now the oratory of the
Disciplinati di Sturla, under the title of
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The neighbourhood is home to the Villa Gentile athletics arena, as well as several public and private bathing facilities. A water purification plant has been built between Sturla beach and Vernazzola beach.
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Sturla is bisected by the Sturla river. The river is ten kilometers long and rarely dry. It starts in the districts of San Desidario and Bavari where it runs through a narrow valley between the slopes of
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On 26 November 1322 the Guelphs attacked the castle of Sturla, containing the garrison of the Ghibellines, who controlled the Bisagno valley. After two days the besiegers, who also possessed a
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and Monte Ratti, then coming to the area of Borgoratti. On the way it collects the waters of tributaries such as the Pomà river, the Canè river, the Penego river and other smaller streams.
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Along the road that leads around Capo di Santa Chiara, a distinctive vantage point dominated by the medieval styled Turcke castle, there are some eighteenth-century villas, the
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From Piazza Sturla, Via Sturla and Via Isonzo lead to Corso Europa, a road built in the sixties, linking the neighbourhoods to the east of Genoa to the city centre.
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villas. However, like Boccadasse, the village still preserves its ancient dwellings, the network of old streets and an atmosphere of a bygone era.
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swimmers of an international standard. Among these we can mention in the men's Mattia Alberico and Marco Formentini, and in the ladies
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line, in which only regional trains stop. Itâs used for connections to the other parts of city and the coastal towns Levante Riviera.
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and Giorgia Consiglio (the women's race has been held since 1986). The ASD Urania di Vernazzola, established in 1926, is active in
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that bloodied Genoa in the Middle Ages. There were also reports of clashes between the Grillo and Vento family in 1179.
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painted between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century, while other works of art, including the
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family. It later became the oratory of the brotherhood named Santi Rocco e Nazario e Celso.
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folk music. The âCanterini Vecchia Sturlaâ were formed in 1926 but no longer exists.
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high school that focuses on the sciences and was built in the 1960s.
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725:Boccadasse
673:Initially
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