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The Fair of Genoa is happy to welcome its visitors , in collaboration with Terre di Mare, offering them useful services which shall make their visit of the exhibition area a memorable experience.

Located inside the reception area you shall find the Reception Point for Disabled Visitors, and people having either disabilities or special needs will be able to buy their tickets from a counter reserved just for them, and also get information or help.

The Reception Point is open every day, following the opening hours of the exhibition. Call 339-1309249
A map of the exhibition area shall be available at the entrance with all the useful points and information for the visit.

Available services at the Reception Point

Four wheeled electric scooters, free of charge for elderly guest or younger ones with walking difficulties, so that they shall all be able to move easily around the exhibition area.

Free shuttle bus service to and from the Fair reserved for disabled people who leave their cars in the nearby car parks or who arrive  by train at Brignole station.
 For this service call 349-3505042 from 7am to midnight.

Booking service for a mobility and orientation service for visitors with impaired vision

Hand held computers for people with impaired vision, giving information on the content and the itineraries of the exhibition.

Booking service for a guide service staffed by experts in environmental education.

The sale of vouchers for use in self service cafes and in some of the restaurants  in the Fair area in order to avoid having to queue.

It shall also be possible to activate the “OK! Liguria for Everyone” card free of charge, for both young and old people with disabilities or with special needs which will allow them to use the services offered in the Fair area.
Also, the card enables the use of all the services of information and tourist information under the management of Terre di Mare for all of 2006. Included also the hire of scooters for visiting the old city, aquarium and the area of the Old Port.

The Reception Point for Disabled Visitors is the work of the operatives of the Cruna Social Cooperative which manages Terre di Mare, a counter for tourism without limits of the Genoa Province- Council of Social Politics.

The Cruna is a Social Cooperative at r.l. ONLUS which was  born in 1997 with the objective of encouraging the employment of people with mobility disabilities. It employs its services in the tourism without limits sector, information technology and the communication sector.
www.lacruna.com  coop@lacruna.com

Reduced prices for visitors with disabilities:
Friday 21st-Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd April  € 14.00
Monday 24th April and from Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th April € 11.00
Tuesday 25th and from Saturday 29th April  to Monday 1st May €13.00

The reduced price for visitors with disabilities service is reserved for those people who, on the presentation of a certificate of invalidity or a corresponding  self-certification, can show to have an invalidity greater than 66%. A disabled person who isn’t able to move around unaided also qualifies for a free entrance ticket for his or her own escort.

From the 7th to the 14th April a service for booking Euroflora tickets shall be in operation, contact Terre di Mare on 010-542098 or 339-1309249.

How to get to the Fair

For those visitors arriving on foot at the Fair area from Brignole Station, a special marked-out path has been created.

For those visitors arriving by car a reserved area has been set aside for holders of invalid disc. As an alternative solution, it shall be possible to leave cars in a car park in areas around the Fair and then to make use of a free shuttle-bus service by calling 349/3505042
We would like to kindly remind visitors that the reserved parking areas are only allowed for car owners with their own disabled disc on display in the car ( article 8.2.3. of D.M. 236/89).

Public transport:
Free phone AMT 800.08531.
Buses of the 19 route ( bus stop in front of the Fair) are equipped with mechanised loading/unloading platforms.
Radio taxi service with cars equipped for disabled passengers, call 010.5966.

For information about accessibility and about tourism without barriers in Genoa:
Terre di Mare Tel. 010-542098  339-1309249    www.terredimare.it