In today's administrative subdivision it is located in the Municipio VIII - Medio Levante area which includes the neighbourhoods of Albaro, Foce, San Martino.

The ancient village of Boccadasse lies at the eastern end of the main promenade of the city of Genoa, Corso Italia.

The village of Boccadasse, with its pastel coloured houses around its cobblestone beach, preserved itself and remained unchanged making it a well-known tourist location of the city.

[5][7][8] The village of Boccadasse, now part of the neighbourhood of Albaro, in the past was within the territory managed by San Francesco d'Albaro from which depended on administratively.

[4] The building expansion of the 20th century changed the look of the area around the bay, making it a residential neighbourhood, but, thanks to its periferic location, it conserved its original urban structure.

It is also thought that Boccadasse is connected to the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina where, many Genoese emigrants moved to since the 1830s, setting in La Boca.

The first few verses are written on a commemorative plaque put up on the western wall of Saint Anthony's Church in the panoramic square dedicated to the poet.

The Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri, in his crime novels on Commissario Montalbano, imagined that Livia Burlando (the protagonist's girlfriend) lived in Boccadasse.

The site is located on the sea bottom of Sturla, Quarto dei Mille, Quinto al Mare and Nervi, where a characteristic habitat formed by meadows of the seagrass posidonia oceanica and reef formation.