Posted in Towns and villages on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Riviera di Levante is the coast east of Genoa. Despite their evident popularity it ensures pretty walking and dramatic scenery.
The green lands around Portofino, Italy’s wealthiest promontory […]
Posted in Towns and villages on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The Gulf of La Spezia is one of the most wide and deep inlets of the whole Tyrrhenian coast. It is encircled by two promontories and delimited by an amphitheater of hills and mountains. The coasts are mainly high and jagged, with imposing […]
Posted in History, Towns and villages on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
As time passes towns and villages change a lot and after a century it is most interesting to compare well known places how they looked in past times and how they look today .
On Alassio´s ufficial website you can see many yesterday and today fotos - have a look , its very interesting !
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Posted in Towns and villages on Jun 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Getting There: The Cinque Terre region is approximately 150 miles south of Milan and 250 miles north of Rome. Depending on the U.S. departure city, flights are available to both cities on Alitalia, British Airways, Delta, KLM, Lufthansa, SAS, and TWA. Milan is also served by American, Continental, Swiss Air and United Airlines. Milan has […]
Posted in Towns and villages on Jun 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
San Remo is a capital town of the Italian Riviera of Flowers. Its climate has been widely appreciated since the 1800’s, but its artistic heritage, permeated by that typically Ligurian shyness, which escapes from any focus of attention, is still largely unknown. As a matter of fact, its views are extremely suggestive and its architecture […]
Posted in Towns and villages on Jun 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Liguria has a unique city, Genoa, called magnificent by Petrarch whose poems depicted it as regal, leaning against a steep hill, magnificent for its people and walls, whose sole aspect claims it Queen of the sea and of which Wagner stated “I have never seen anything like this Genoa. It’s something undescribably beautiful, majestic, […]