I Put Up At The House Of A Spanish Lady On The Piazza St Siro, And Here
For Four Livres A Day I Am Sumptuously Boarded And Lodged.
There are
three principal streets in Genoa, viz., Strada Nuova, Balbi, and
Nuovissima.
Yet these three streets may be properly said to form but one,
inasmuch as they lie very nearly in a right line. These streets are broad
and aligned with the finest buildings in Genoa. This street or streets are
the only ones that can be properly called so, according to the idea we
usually attach to the word. The others deserve rather the names of lanes
and alleys, tho' exceedingly well paved and aligned with excellent houses
and shops. In fact the streets Nuova, Nuovissima and Balbi are the
only ones thro' which carriages can pass. The others are far too narrow to
admit of the passage of carriages. The houses on each side of them are of
immense height, being of six or seven stories, which form such a shade as
effectually to protect those who walk thro' these alleys from the rays of
the sun. The houses diminish in height in proportion as they are built on
the slant of the mountain from the bottom to the top, those at the bottom
being the loftiest. Carriages are scarcely of any use in the city of Genoa,
except to drive from one end of the town to another thro' the streets
Nuova, Balbi and Nuovissima; and accordingly a carriage with four
wheels, or even with two, is a rare conveyance in Genoa.
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