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 A trendy hangout |
Via Paraggi a mare, 10 Genoa 16100 Italy +39 18 528 6721 |
This place is about half an hour by car from Genoa, between Santa Margherita and Portofino, in the Paraggi bay, which is famous for its white sand and green water. This is the place to go to on the riviera, and is popular on Friday and Saturday nights in summer and winter. It is a beautiful club, with a veranda overlooking the sea, low ceilings and wooden structure. It is a restaurant for the first half of the evening, and towards midnight it becomes a disco. Entrance is reserved for those who have booked a table, those who personally know the staff on the door and anyone important looking! Ultra snobby atmosphere but also a fun place. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Commercial music and rock in this lively disco |
Via Carzino, 13r Sampierdarena Genoa 16100 Italy |
This disco is extremely popular with Genoan students although it is slightly out of the centre. In the Sampierdarena district, it has attracted a crowd of youth for years, especially on Saturdays, who dance to mostly commercial music and old and new rock. This is not a big place, and it has two floors. The upper floor has a balcony which is usually packed and the dance floor, dominated by the DJ, is downstairs. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Trendy music in a beautiful setting |
Via Degola, 9 Genoa 16100 Italy +39 10 59 3650 |
This old cinema has been renovated and is now a concert venue and a disco. The loft like structure has high ceilings and a large stage and dancefloor with an elevated floor and gangways looking onto the dancefloor. The place is dominated by the electric blue walls, bright red, velvet sofas and a bronze bar. The hi-tech glass and steel staircase that leads to the upper floor is particularly distinctive and gives the place an avant-garde look. With high quality music, foreign DJ's from all over Europe come here to play the most up to date sounds, including break beat, new jazz beat, drum and bass and asia underground. This is a trendy place with a metropolitan style that is unique in Genoa. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Club, cabaret and live music |
Piazza Cavour, 35r Genoa 16123 Italy +39 10 246 1129 |
The pub is divided into three parts. The main room contains tables and benches. From here you can reach the 'disco' area at the back and then there is a superelevated floor with more tables laid out, but where there are also occasional exhibitions of young artists. The walls are adorned with sculptures made out of mechanical items such as wheels, bolts and gears, all formed into enormous robots and functioning machines that have no function (there is a beautiful englobed structure on one of the benches). Concerts are organised in the disco room but the standing room available for spectators is very limited and the view of performers is non-existent. The cabaret evenings allow a better view of the stage as they are less busy, and tables are available. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Classic disco with live music |
Corso Italia, 28r Genoa 16100 Italy +39 10 36 7652 |
A former classy night club, this is now a disco in a round building, looking over the sea. The large windows would make this a great place during the day, but it only opens at night when it offers restaurant service and a disco later on. The music is mainly commercial, with 70s revival evenings, and it attracts a diverse crowd looking for a fun time. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Underground club in the historic centre |
Via Salita Mascherona, 16r Genoa 16100 Italy |
In an area full of bars, in the historic centre, this is one of a variety of clubs where you can go for an after dinner drink, listen to live music, and enjoy improvised jamming sessions by Genovese musicians. They also offer cabaret evenings and are great places to go with friends. In an old building, it looks out onto the Mascherona exit and is slightly hidden away from the main road. Nonetheless, it can be easily reached by the more lively San Bernardo alleyway. Open until late, this is an ideal end to an evening of bar hopping on a Friday or Saturday night. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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For a fun packed evening |
Via Gabriele d'Annunzio, 19 Genoa 16100 Italy +39 10 54 1273 |
This is a restaurant and pizzeria at the beginning of the evening, which then transforms into a disco that is particularly popular on Thursdays and Fridays. Decorated in rustic style, the interior is not what you would expect from such a successful place. The music is commercial and they play 70's and 80's music. This is a fun place where you can dance until late, amongst a crowd of students, classy Genoese and aerobics instructors! Review © 2007, Wcities |
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In the historic centre |
Via Porta d'Archi, 74r Genoa 16100 Italy +39 10 56 1773 |
The entrance to this disco is through an office building, and it alternates dance evenings with live concerts and cabaret. It is a large place, but divided up in an odd way, with huge pillars that obstruct views of the shows and the dancers. The bar is far from the dance floor, but there is also table service. The clientèle varies but it tends to be students and die hard fans of this disco. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Out of the centre |
Via Simone Schiaffino, 32 Genoa 16148 Italy +39 10 376 1664 |
This is a dancehall with a small stage where concerts sometimes take place. Interestingly decorated, it is one large room with a marble balcony. There is a retro, end of the nineteenth century atmosphere and it attracts a young crowd, particularly on 'rock' evenings. It has also lately been offering evenings devoted to Latino music, with lessons by professional dancers. Far from the centre and difficult to reach without precise directions. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Live music and Dj's |
Piazza Sarzano Genoa 16123 Italy |
This is a historic place in Genoese clubbing history, as it was the first place in the city to offer live music on the underground circuit (at the beginning of the 1980's). Once small and packed, it is now more airy after being renovated and extended. All kinds of Genoese groups playing all kinds of music have performed here, from punk to rock, reggae and ska. Every night is an event, and there is also a DJ set. Open until the small hours, all die hard clubbers end up here sooner or later. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Latin evenings |
Via Brigate Salerno, 4r Genoa 16148 Italy +39 10 399 0872 |
In the Sturla district, this is a large disco that has started to specialise in Latin evenings with professional dancers who reveal their dancing secrets here. It attracts a thirty something crowd who want to have fun on the weekends. This is definitely the right place to come to for fun, as the atmosphere is often euphoric, with improvised collective dancing. Patrons are well dressed, with some bare flesh but nothing too extreme! Review © 2007, Wcities |