The Metropolitan City of Genoa ( it, Città Metropolitana di Genova) is one of the fourteen

Metropolitan cities of Italy The metropolitan cities of Italy (Italian: ''città metropolitane d'Italia'') are administrative divisions of Italy, operative since 2015, which are a special type of sub-provinces (''province''). The metropolitan city, as defined by law, include ...

, located in the region of

Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...

. Its capital is the city of

Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ...

. It replaced the

Province of Genoa The Province of Genoa (Italian ''Provincia di Genova'') was a province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Genoa. It was replaced by Metropolitan City of Genoa. Overview It has an area of and a total population of about ...

History

It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since January 1, 2015.

Municipalities

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List of Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Genoa The following is a list of the 67 municipalities (''comuni'') of the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy. List See also *List of municipalities of Italy References {{Metropolitan City of Genoa 01 Metropolitan City of Genoa Gen ...

Arenzano Arenzano (local lij, Rensën) is a coastal town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, northern Italy, facing the Ligurian Sea. , it has a population of 11,445. This varies during the holiday seasons due to tourist flow. There ...

* Avegno *

Bargagli Bargagli () is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa in the Val di Lentro. Bargagli borders the following municipalities: Davagna, Genoa, Lumarzo Lumarzo ...

Bogliasco Bogliasco ( lij, Boggiasco) is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. Together with the ''comuni'' of Camogli, Recco, Pieve Ligure and Sori, it is part ...

Borzonasca Borzonasca is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Borzonasca borders the following municipalities: Mezzanego, Ne, Rezzoaglio, San Colombano Certénoli, San ...

Busalla Busalla is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italy, Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the upper valley of the Scrivia river. Nearby is the artificial Lago della Bu ...

Camogli Camogli (; lij, label= Genoese, Camoggi ) is a fishing village and tourist resort located on the west side of the peninsula of Portofino, on the Golfo Paradiso in the Riviera di Levante, in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, northern Italy ...

Campo Ligure Campo Ligure (locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northwest of Genoa. Campo Ligure borders the following municipalities: Bosio, Masone, Rossiglione, Tiglieto ...

Campomorone Campomorone ( lij, Campomon) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa. Campomorone borders the following municipalities: Bosio, Ceranesi, Fraconalto, Genoa, Mi ...

Carasco Carasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa in the Val Fontanabuona. Carasco borders the following municipalities: Chiavari, Cogorno, Leivi, Mezzanego Mez ...

Casarza Ligure Casarza Ligure ( lij, Casersa) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. Casarza Ligure borders the following municipalities: Castiglione Chiavarese Castig ...

* Casella *

Castiglione Chiavarese Castiglione Chiavarese ( ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. Castiglione Chiavarese borders the following municipalities: Carro, Casarza Ligure, D ...

Ceranesi Ceranesi (; lij, Çianexi ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northwest of Genoa. The Municipality of Ceranesi includes also the Shrine of N.S. della Guardia, the most ...

Chiavari Chiavari (; lij, Ciävai ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in Italy. It has about 28,000 inhabitants. It is situated near the river Entella. History Pre-Roman and Roman Era A pre-Roman necropolis, which dates f ...

Cicagna Cicagna is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Cicagna borders the following municipalities: Coreglia Ligure, Lorsica, Mocònesi, Orero, Rapallo, Tribogna Tr ...

Cogoleto Cogoleto ( lij, Cogoeuo) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genova. Its territory extends from the sea to the Ligurian Apennines; it is part of the Natural Regiona ...

Cogorno Cogorno (, ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,316 and an area of .All demographics and other statisti ...

Coreglia Ligure Coreglia Ligure () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Coreglia Ligure borders the following municipalities: Cicagna, Orero, Rapallo, San Colombano Certé ...

Crocefieschi Crocefieschi () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Crocefieschi borders the following municipalities: Busalla, Savignone, Valbrevenna, Vobbia. R ...

Davagna Davagna ( lij, Dägna) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italy, Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. The municipality of Davagna borders the following municipalities: Bargagli, Genoa, ...

Fascia A fascia (; plural fasciae or fascias; adjective fascial; from Latin: "band") is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches to, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs. ...

Favale di Malvaro Favale di Malvaro ( lij, O Favâ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Favale di Malvaro borders the following municipalities: Lorsica, Mocònesi, Neirone ...

Fontanigorda Fontanigorda ( lij, Fontanegorda) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Fontanigorda borders the following municipalities: Fascia, Montebruno, Rezzoaglio ...

Genova Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of G ...

Gorreto Gorreto ( Ligurian and Bobbiese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Gorreto borders the following municipalities: Carrega Ligure, Fascia, Ottone, ...

Isola del Cantone Isola del Cantone ( lij, L'Isöa do Canton) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa. Isola del Cantone borders the following municipalities: Arquata Scrivia, Bu ...

Lavagna Lavagna is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Italy. History and Culture The village, unlike nearby Chiavari which has pre- Roman evidence, seems to have developed in Roman times with the Latin name of ''Lavania''. ...

Leivi Leivi is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in the Liguria region of northwest Italy. Leivi sits in the Apennine hills, from the town of Chiavari, overlooking the Gulf of Tigullio 240px, Diagrammatic aerial view showing ...

Lorsica Lorsica ( lij, Lorsega) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Lorsica borders the following municipalities: Cicagna, Favale di Malvaro, Mocònesi, Montebru ...

Lumarzo Lumarzo ( lij, Lumarso) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Lumarzo borders the following municipalities: Bargagli, Davagna, Neirone, Sori, Torriglia, ...

Masone Masone ( or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northwest of Genoa. Masone borders the following municipalities: Bosio, Campo Ligure, Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ...

Mele Mele () is a ''Comune'' (Municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about west of Genoa. Mele borders the following municipalities: Genoa, Masone Masone ( or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the ...

Mezzanego Mezzanego ( lij, Mezanego) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and ...

Mignanego Mignanego is a ''comune'' (municipality) of the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa in the northeastern part of the Val Polcevera valley. Geography Mignanego borders the following municipalities: ...

* Moconesi *

Moneglia Moneglia (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. It is a tourist resort on the Riviera di Levante. In 2012 it was added to the list of I Borghi più b ...

Montebruno Montebruno () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Montebruno borders the following municipalities: Fascia, Fontanigorda, Lorsica, Mocònesi, Rezzoagli ...

Montoggio Montoggio ( lij, Monteuggio) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. As of October 2006, it had a population of 2,018 and an area of .All demographics and ...

* Ne *

Neirone Neirone ( lij, Neion) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Neirone borders the following municipalities: Favale di Malvaro, Lorsica, Lumarzo, Mocònes ...

* Orero *

Pieve Ligure Pieve Ligure ( lij, A Ceive, locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. The ''pieve'' of St. Michael Archangel, from which the town takes its name, h ...

Portofino Portofino (; ) is a ''comune'' located in the Metropolitan City of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town is clustered around its small harbour, and is known for the colourfully painted buildings that line the shore. Since the late 19th century ...

Propata Propata ( lij, Propâ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. The parish church of St. Lawrence houses a wooden statue by Anton Maria Maragliano Anton M ...

Rapallo Rapallo ( , , ) is a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located in the Liguria region of northern Italy. As of 2017 it had 29,778 inhabitants. It lies on the Ligurian Sea coast, on the Tigullio Gulf, between Portofino and Chiavar ...

Recco The RECCO is a rescue technology used by organised rescue teams as an additional tool to more quickly locate people buried by an avalanche or lost in the outdoors. The system is based on a harmonic radar system and composed by a detector and a p ...

Rezzoaglio Rezzoaglio ( lij, Rezzoagi, locally ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria. Rezzoaglio borders the following municipalities: Borzonasca, Favale di Malvaro, Ferriere, Fontanigorda, Lorsi ...

Ronco Scrivia 240px, Tower of the Castle of Borgo Fornari. Ronco Scrivia () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa. Ronco Scrivia borders the following municipalities: Busal ...

Rondanina Rondanina ( lij, Rondaninn-a) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Ligu ...

* Rossiglione *

Rovegno Rovegno ( lij, Roegno) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa, in the Val Trebbia. Rovegno borders the following municipalities: Fascia, Fontanigorda, Gorr ...

* San Colombano Certenoli *

Sant'Olcese Sant'Olcese ( lij, Sant'Orçeise) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region of Liguria, located about north of Genoa. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,945 and an area of .All demographi ...

Santa Margherita Ligure Santa Margherita Ligure ( lij, Santa Margaita) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa, in the area traditionally known as Tigullio. It has a port, used for b ...

Santo Stefano d'Aveto Santo Stefano d'Aveto ( lij, San Stê) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria. Santo Stefano d'Aveto borders the comuni of Bedonia, Borzonasca, Ferriere, Rezzoaglio and Tornolo. Geogr ...

Savignone Savignone ( lij, Savignon) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa. Savignone borders the following municipalities: Busalla, Casella, Crocefieschi, Mignanego, ...

Serra Riccò Serra Riccò ( lij, A Særa) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about north of Genoa, in the Val Polcevera. Serra Riccò borders the following municipalities: Casella, Genoa, M ...

Sestri Levante Sestri Levante ( la, Segesta Tigullorum/Segesta Tigulliorum) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, Liguria, Italy. Lying on the Mediterranean Sea, it is approximately south of Genoa and is set on a promontory. While nearby ...

* Sori * Tiglieto *

Torriglia Torriglia ( lij, Torriggia) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located in the upper Trebbia valley, about northeast of Genoa. Torriglia borders the following municipalities: Davagna, ...

Tribogna Tribogna ( lij, Tribeugna) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa. Tribogna borders the following municipalities: Avegno, Cicagna, Mocònesi, Neirone, Rapall ...

Uscio Uscio ( lij, Aosci) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the ...

Valbrevenna Valbrevenna ( lij, Varbrevenna) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Valbrevenna borders the following municipalities: Carrega Ligure, Casella, Crocefi ...

Vobbia Vobbia ( lij, Veubbia) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about northeast of Genoa. Vobbia borders the following municipalities: Busalla, Carrega Ligure, Crocefieschi Cr ...

Zoagli Zoagli ( lij, Zoagi) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa. Zoagli is a popular destination during all seasons of the year by tourists from all over the wo ...

Localities

''Main Article:'' List of Frazioni in the Metropolitan City of Genoa

Government

The Metropolitan City is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (''Sindaco metropolitano'') and by the Metropolitan Council (''Consiglio metropolitano'').

List of Metropolitan Mayors of Genoa

References

External links

Metropolitan City of Genoa official website

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