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A small stone building just inside the medieval Porta Soprana gate in the old town of Genoa, the so-called House of Christopher Columbus is traditionally identified as the childhood home of the famous explorer. The modest two-storey building, surrounded by the ruins of medieval walls and cloisters, sits on the spot where the family of the navigator is documented to have lived in the late fifteenth century. Historical records show that Columbus father, the wool weaver Domenico Colombo, rented a ...