Albaro

Albaro
Quartiere
Villa Saluzzo Bombrini, called "Il Paradiso" ("the Heaven"), one of the most renowned villas of Albaro
Albaro Location in Italy
Coordinates: 44°23′57″N 8°57′39″E / 44.39917°N 8.96083°E / 44.39917; 8.96083
Region	Liguria
Province	Province of Genoa
Comune	Genoa
Population
• Total	28,465
Area code(s)	010

Albaro is a residential neighbourhood of the Italian city of Genoa, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of the city centre. It was formerly an independent comune, named San Francesco d'Albaro, included in the city of Genoa in 1873. At present, togheter with the neighbourhoods of Foce () and San Martino d'Albaro () is part of the Genoa's city VIII Municipio (Medio Levante).

For few months, from September 1822 to July 1823, the romantic poet Lord Byron lived here. The English writer Charles Dickens spent in Albaro the summer of 1844, and here he wrote the short novel The Chimes.

From the 16th to the 19th century Albaro was a renowned holiday resort for the Genoese upper class, who lived in the city and during summer used to move to their villas in Albaro. Nowadays it is a stately residential neighborhood, where during the last century next to the historic villas apartment buildings have been built, most of them with broad exclusive green spaces.

A well known hamlet of Albaro is Boccadasse, a fishermen's village at the eastern side of Corso Italia.

According the historian Federico Donaver (1861-1915) Albaro would take its name from the ancient Ligurian word arbà, which means bay; another hypothesis (still by Donaver itself) presumes that it derives from dawn (italian alba), as Albaro hill is located east of the city of Genoa, therefore where the sun rises.

At 31 December 2015 were 28,465 people living in Albaro, with a population density of 96.38 people per km².

Albaro is located east of the center of Genoa. The neighborhood includes the southernmost part of a hill between the rivers Bisagno and Sturla which ends at the sea with high cliffs and small stony beaches, once accessible only through narrow crêuze (). Nowadays along the coast line runs the seafront named Corso Italia.

Albaro includes most of the territory of the former comune of San Francesco d'Albaro, except some small areas, and its boundaries are the sea coast (Corso Italia), Via Nizza and Via Pozzo on the west side, Corso Gastaldi on the north side, via Sclopis and via Orlando on the east side.