It’s impossible to understand Genoa without considering its relationship with the sea, both in the past and the present. This is why our journey starts with two large aerial photographs: on the left is an actual photo of the city, while the right shows the city of the future, as Renzo Piano imagined it in his “Fresco”. The model is the result of roughly three hundred works, many of them drawings done by Piano himself, donated to the Maritime Museum, where they can be viewed. It is the largest and most important urban and architectural study of Genoa and its waterfront. The ideas proposed are adapted to a city that is in constant transformation and that, after the crises of important industries in the city, rediscovered its historic and artistic treasures. But that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning its maritime and production activities!