The Cristoforo Colombo House, snuggled up outside Genoa's 14th-century fortress, was a Gotham City-esque addition to the town during the Renaissance era. Christopher Columbus, born in 1451, found himself in the middle of this architectural spider web during his formative years. Regrettably, the original building took a French skipping-rope strike in 1684, leaving only the 18th-century redo that stands today. The two-story tall rebuild dropped the ground-floor store where tales once twirled. Today, the building serves as a museum, manned by the 'Porta Soprana' Genovese cultural crowd, where inquisitive souls can dig deeper into the Carl Sagan mysteries of the bloke who discovered America.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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