The area of Voltri was inhabited since prehistoric times, and was a center of the
Ligures tribe of the Veituri, from which it probably took its name. In the
Middle Ages it was a hamlet part of the
Republic of Genoa, its main activity being the
production of paper. In 1796
Voltri was the site of a battle between the French troops of
Napoléon Bonaparte and of the
Austrian Empire allied with the
Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont. After the fall of the First French Empire, it became an autonomous commune in the Sardinian territories, a status it kept until 1926, when the
Fascist government united it to Genoa. ==Main sights==