From the 17th century to the modern era

At the end of the century of the Genoese, there were various internal and external battles, against the Savoy in the seventeenth century, against the army of the Sun King in 1684 and in 1746 during the war of the Austrian succession until the popular revolt which began on December 5.

The Napoleonic Empire then defeated the Austro Savoy army several times in 1796 and two years later founded the Ligurian Democratic Republic which, in 1805, became part of the French Empire. With the Congress of Vienna, from 1815, the duchy of Genoa passed to the Savoy and then to the Kingdom of Sardinia .

With the Savoy, during the Risorgimento, whose Ligurian contribution was notable not only for the expedition of the thousand who left from Quarto, but also for its main figures such as Mazzini , Mameli and Garibaldi himself. The roads and ports were rebuilt, along with the railway lines.

The development of heavy industry led Genoa to form together and Milan and Turin the so-called "industrial triangle" and tourism developed: the English, Russians and Germans spent their holidays here attracted by the mild climate of the Rivieras.

In the years between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Liguria experienced a great emigration of its inhabitants to the United States and Latin America, especially to Argentina, as the literature testifies in the story by De Amicis, " From the Apennines to the Andes ".

After the bombings of the Second World War, Genoa put up a tenacious resistance to the Germans and forced them to surrender even before the arrival of the allies; finally, in 1947 the peace with France decreed the cession of some Ligurian territories in the lower and middle Val di Roia to the French.

The 21st century

At the end of the twentieth century, Liguria had to face the crisis of heavy industry and ports from which, however, it was able to recover: Genoa, thanks also to some fortunate circumstances such as the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America and the European capital of culture in 2004, has been able to regain importance and tourism.

The ports, both of Savona and Genoa , are important arrival points for international cruises and the hinterland, with its typical products and traditions, is regaining altitude thanks to a new tourism, more careful rediscovery of Ligurian nature.