Category: Liguria
San Remo festival, port in Genova starting point of Columbus voyages, Portofino with its mysterious story of Christ from the Abyss, the bay with tragic end of Shelley and Via dell'Amore connecting small villages of Cinque Terre are only few of tourist attractions that convince you to spend your vacations in Liguria.
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Parco del Beigua
A visit to the Natural Regional Park of Beigua provides you with all the best Liguria can offer for the tourist. On the territory of 9 000 hectares between Genova and Savona exists enormous variety of biosphere with large number of species of both fauna and flora.
Dolcedo
Located only seven kilometers from the Ligurian coast, Dolcedo features completely different landscape that one can expect from the Riviera. While nearby Imperia offers blue of Mediterranean waters, azure sky and golden yellow beaches, here dominate earth colours mixed with silver and faded green of vegetation.
Porto Venere
Popular holiday resort of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century is still a main tourist destination in Liguria due to pefrect weather conditions ( not to warm in the summer, not too cold in winter ) in the village with panoramic views on the Golfo di Spezia, known as Gulf of Poets.
Palmaria
The largest island in the Archipelago of Portovenere is a popular destination of day trips for Italians, but foreign tourists will be probably more attracted by the mainland.
Camogli
The small fishing village on Portofino’s promontory touching the waters of Golfo Paradiso is one of popular tourist destinations in Liguria.
Torre Scola
The northeast tip of the island Palmaria facing Porto Venere surrounded by the waters of Gulf of Poets presents a curious construction, the standalone defense building in the sea known as the tower of Scola or torre di San Giovanni Battista.
Badia di Tiglieto
Abbazia di Santa Maria alla Croce, commonly referred as Badia di Tiglieto is the oldest Cistercian monastery founded outside of France.
Battaglia dei fiori
La Battaglia dei Fiori is a picturesque event, which takes place in the town Ventimiglia neat the border of the Southern France.
Cinque Terre
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Italy, Cinque Terre still preserves natural beauty of the landscape full of terraced vineyards, orange orchards, prick pears overlooking majestic cliff shore scattered with tiny colorful houses, which look like growing out of the rocks.
Wine from Cinque Terre
The tourists who happen to visit Cinque Terre are amazed by unique landscape in the world. Tiny, colorful houses atop of cliff hills, and the slopes covered by infinite lines of stone terraces. The trees of forests, that once covered the hills were gradually taken away one by one by the workful hands,which build stone [...]
San Fruttuoso Abbey
The origins of foundation of the San Fruttuoso Abbey are covered with the mist of the horrible dragon living in the cave somewhere on the Ligurian Sea coast. The tradition goes that after his death the bishop Fruttuoso appeared in the vision experienced by five monks, and shoved them the place, where his remains should [...]
How to get to Liguria
By Car There are four motorways leading to Genova. From Milano ( 140 km) there is a road A7 ( Serravalle) with exit Genova Ovest or Genova Bolzanetto. A26 goes from Voltri-Gravellona, Autostrada dei Fiori A10 follows Riviera di Ponente coast into direction of Sanremo and Ventimiglia ( 159 km ) and has the entrances [...]
Hotel Splendido
Originally a monastery, abandoned by the monks in 16th century, in late 19th century has been rebuilt by Baron Baratta into his summer residence, to be later sold to Ruggiero Valentini, who in 1905 opened here Grand Hotel Splendid. Soon it became the place recognised by European aristocracy, and shortly after the Second World War, [...]
Cristo degli Abissi
Somewhere deep in the waters of Riviera di Levante near Portofino rests an extraordinary bronze sculpture ‘Il Cristo degli Abissi’. The 2,5 m high sculpture of Christ with head and hands rising in the pose offering peace protects people of the sea: sailors, fishermen and divers. It has been placed near the spot where in [...]
Portofino
Famous Portofino, the resort of rich and famous is an Italian village on Riviera di Levante coast in Liguria founded by the Romans and named Portus Delphini (Port of the Dolphins) because the huge number of dolphins, that can still be seen in the gulf nowadays.
