Together with the comuni of Camogli, Recco, Pieve Ligure and Sori, it is part of the so-called Golfo Paradiso.

Bogliasco borders the following municipalities: Genoa, Pieve Ligure, and Sori.

As archaeological findings proved, the area of Bogliasco was inhabited since Paleolithic and Mesolithic times.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Byzantine and Lombard domination, Liguria was conquered by Charlemagne; the burgh of Bogliasco fell under the Republic of Genoa after the year 1182, suffering numerous raids from Saracen pirates.

Bogliasco has a railway station on the line Pisa-La Spezia-Genoa; nearby there is a gate on the A12 Motorway connecting Rome to Genoa.