Greeting from the Mayor Bucci
Genoa is proud to host in 2024, the year in which it will be the European Capital of Sport, an Orienteering World Cup stage, and in 2026, the World Orienteering Championships: big events that we are getting ready to welcome by involving the excellencies of our territory and guaranteeing the right bond within sport, competition, tourism and culture. It will be a great opportunity for our touristic offer and a precious occasion to bring athletes from around the world to discover and visit our historical centre and city with races closely in touch with some of the city’s main cultural assets.
The link between Genoa and Orienteering is a long-standing one and is destined to become increasingly consolidated over time, also thanks to an ideal geographical conformation for outdoor activities, made even more favourable by the multifunctionality of the forts. We are working in this direction for the restoration and enhancement of the forts system and the city walls, in particular for Forte Begato. In parallel, work has begun on the restoration, enhancement,
and creation of the equipped pedestrian and bicycle path connecting Piazza Manin and Fort Diamante. An intervention that will involve about 13 kilometres of paths in various stages. Major interventions that will make the hilly and mountainous areas surrounding Genoa more accessible and usable, an incredible heritage just a stone’s throw from the sea.
I think that few territories in the world can boast such a scenario.
I have always been a great supporter of Orienteering, not just for schools. It is a challenge above all with oneself to find the quickest way to the finish line, but to do so, one needs to be a very good strategist. When practised at a high level, it requires an athletic preparation similar to that of a middle-distance runner, but also an ability to concentrate comparable to that of a chess player. In fact, it is often not the fastest athlete who wins but the one who finds the smoothest path.
In the case of team competitions, then, one adds the ability to work as a team, putting one’s best qualities at the service of all. And it is precisely those best qualities that lead to victory. Orienteering teaches not to get lost: a fundamental lesson in the woods as in life.
Greeting Mayor Bucci
Genoa is proud to host in 2024, the year in which it will be the European Capital of Sport, an Orienteering World Cup stage, and in 2026, the World Orienteering Championships: big events that we are getting ready to welcome by involving the excellencies of our territory and guaranteeing the right bond within sport, competition, tourism and culture. It will be a great opportunity for our touristic offer and a precious occasion to bring athletes from around the world to discover and visit our historical centre and city with races closely in touch with some of the city’s main cultural assets.
The link between Genoa and Orienteering is a long-standing one and is destined to become increasingly consolidated over time, also thanks to an ideal geographical conformation for outdoor activities, made even more favourable by the multifunctionality of the forts. We are working in this direction for the restoration and enhancement of the forts system and the city walls, in particular for Forte Begato.
In parallel, work has begun on the restoration, enhancement,and creation of the equipped pedestrian and bicycle path connecting Piazza Manin and Fort Diamante. An intervention that will involve about 13 kilometres of paths in various stages. Major interventions that will make the hilly and mountainous areas surrounding Genoa more accessible and usable, an incredible heritage just a stone’s throw from the sea.
I think that few territories in the world can boast such a scenario.
I have always been a great supporter of Orienteering, not just for schools. It is a challenge above all with oneself to find the quickest way to the finish line, but to do so, one needs to be a very good strategist. When practised at a high level, it requires an athletic preparation similar to that of a middle-distance runner, but also an ability to concentrate comparable to that of a chess player. In fact, it is often not the fastest athlete who wins but the one who finds the smoothest path.
In the case of team competitions, then, one adds the ability to work as a team, putting one’s best qualities at the service of all. And it is precisely those best qualities that lead to victory. Orienteering teaches not to get lost: a fundamental lesson in the woods as in life.