Quarto dei Mille is a residential district in the east of
Genoa
Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...
, Italy, overlooking the sea. Located between the
Sturla and
Quinto al Mare districts, it was originally called Quarto al Mare ().
It is currently named after the 1860
Expedition of the Thousand
The Expedition of the Thousand () was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Ki ...
(Garibaldi's volunteer force), who embarked for Sicily there. In 1926 it was integrated into the
municipality of Genoa.
Quartieri of Genoa
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