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Albaro, Genoa — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Albaro is an affluent residential quarter of Genoa, three kilometres east of the centre and an independent comune until 1873.
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Where to stay in Albaro
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Albaro carries no hotel quarter of its own. Its addresses are parish ones, San Giuliano, Santa Maria del Prato, and Santi Pietro e Teresa del Bambin Gesù, among the villas and apartment blocks of a district that was residential long before it joined Genoa. Beds here are flats and villas.
Travellers who came for central Genoa should book closer in, while Albaro suits a longer stay, a return visit, or an appointment at the Physics Museum "Giovanni Boato".
Few places to stay in Albaro — most visitors book in Genoa nearby.
About Albaro
What are the main landmarks in Albaro?
The parish churches do the work here. San Giuliano and Santa Maria del Prato are its parish churches, joined by Santi Pietro e Teresa del Bambin Gesù, while the Physics Museum "Giovanni Boato" holds the quarter's one museum collection. Nothing here works at the scale of the centre.
Albaro, Foce and San Martino d'Albaro share the VIII Municipio, and the sightseeing weight of that grouping sits well to the west.
What is the history of Albaro?
Albaro was once its own municipality. Under the name San Francesco d'Albaro it held the standing of an independent comune until 1873, the year it was included in the city of Genoa and stopped governing itself. The quarter now sits in the VIII Municipio with Foce and San Martino d'Albaro, three names on one council.
Where is Albaro?
Three kilometres east of the centre of Genoa, Albaro holds the ground it governed as a comune, grouped now with Foce in the VIII Municipio.
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What is the best area to stay in Albaro?
Genoa: first visits that want the city Albaro was folded into in 1873.
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Updated September 2026