Two crenellated 12th-century towers and, at their foot, the house where Christopher Columbus spent his childhood. Your treasure map leads you to the ancient entrance of medieval Genoa.
Porta Soprana, also called Porta di Sant'Andrea, is one of the most famous landmarks of medieval Genoa. It was built from 1155 together with the city walls raised against Frederick Barbarossa, and it was the gateway for those arriving from the east. Two semicircular towers crowned with battlements frame a pointed arch, brought back to light by Alfredo d'Andrade's restorations. A few steps away, just outside the walls, stands the house where Christopher Columbus lived with his family roughly from 1455 to 1470: today it is a house-museum, rebuilt in the 18th century on the traces of the original building. Next to it is the Romanesque cloister of Sant'Andrea, reassembled here stone by stone. Both the gate and the house can be visited.
