Italian design house, Pininfarina, synonymous with avant-garde designs for Ferrari cars, will for the first time be building cars under its own brand name.
Genoa is one of the two 2004 Cultural Capitals of Europe. this year some 22 palace museums were spiffed up to remind the world that for
centuries Genoa has been a city of art and culture as well as navigation.
Last November, the Italian government yielded to decades of pressure return a fourth-century obelisk looted from the early Christian site of Axum to Ethiopia.
