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San Remo offers a long list of entertaining events and shows, such as the Car Rally Race , the famous Song Festival, the Corso Fiorito with 100s of carts and coaches , beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and fruits , and not to forget the exciting Milano-San Remo cycling race.

San Remo with its bright lights, colors, and lovely flowers is the perfect location for Riviera´s never ending big summer party , offering a unique scenery under the bright sun .
Sanremo offers something for everybody :
Corso Fiorito parade where you will be able to see a multitude of beautiful flowers is an absolute must for those who enjoy nature and gardens .

You prefer music? - well , then the Tenco Prize Competition will be waiting for you.

There are so many different events in San Remo to attract and satisfy a wide international audience. All along the streets in the town center, at the harbor, or on the hills the Town of Flowers can offer you lively moments of entertainment and is ready to amaze its visitors with a multitude of events and shows.

During summertime special entertainment and events for children - e.g., with clowns and jugglers - will be organized.

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The British rock star Rod Steward married his girlfriend Penny Lancaster yesterday in a 17th century villa in Santa Margherita Ligure just outside the posh Portofino resort on the Italian Riviera . The wedding was a small ceremony gathering with a few friends and family .
Afterward, the newlyweds went back to a yacht just off the coast where they have been staying.
It is getting more and more popular for rich and famous to get married in one of Italy´s many romantic locations .Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got married in Rome last November , Patricia Arquette and her boyfriend Thomas Jane tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at the Palazzo Contarini in Venice, with only close family members attending and also Desperate Housewives actor Dougray Scott , 41, and actress Claire Forlani, 35, married in Italy on last Friday .

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Spinach ravioli
served with lasagna
and a side order of cheese

Gelato-it is so incredibly delicious!

Pizza- so many different kinds
and very thin crust

Spinach risotto

Tortellini in a soup broth

Ravioli in vodka sauce

stuffed with spinach and ricotta cheese

Gnocchi served with sauce or butter

(for the little ones)

Espresso is like coffee but a little stronger
it is served in a miniature cup and is yummy!

Meat tortellini served with alfredo sauce
and grilled perciutto ( which is like ham)

Muscles marinera- Muscles cooked with an awesome tomato sauce and served as a yummy appetizer!

Homemade pound cake with no icing and nothing special however it is an Italian treat you are sure to at least like!

Penne alla vodka- My favorite type of pasta ( my mom makes it very well but my aunt in Italy makes it better!)

Zeppeli - fried dough with sugar

All these foods are delicious
but don’t eat all of them at once!

What makes their pasta great is their sauce is very light plus their tomatoes are ripe and fresh.

Zucchini fries/chips - fried zucchini with some fried bread crumbs. It is very delicious!

Calamari - Squids mantle cut into rings and fried with bread crumbs.

Popcorn - make sure you stop by a popcorn machine on your way!

Stuffed shells - stuffed with delicious ricotta cheese and pasta shaped as shells.

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60-feet down on the seabed off Genoa, stands an enormous bronze statue - Christ of the Abyss, protecting saint of divers. Once a year, the statue is the object of an unusual event, as divers, carrying torches, deposit a crown on the figure’s head.

 Divers can admire a similar statue of Jesus Christ of the Abyss close to the island ” La Gallinara  ” , which is surrounded by an unforgettable underwater world with multicolored fih an d corals . La Gallinara is the only privately owned island on the ligurian coast and it is located right in front of the beach of Alassio ( 1.5 miles)

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If you are the proud owner of the legendary Italian car Fiat 500  fix it up and come to Albenga on the 5th of july 2007  to meet with the members of the famous Fiat 500 Club Italia .

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When the Rotary Club was founded in Alassio 4o years ago , the first reunion took place in Hotel Mignon and the club counted 24 members with professor Giuseppe Rinonapoli as president .Only 3 of the first members are still alive and today there are 44 active members in the club with Mr. Melgrati , who is Alassio´s mayor , as president .

The first Rotary Club was founded in 1905 in Chicago by attorney Paul P. Harris and three other businessmen. On February 23, 1905, Harris held the first meeting with three friends, Silvester Schiele, coal merchant, Gustave E. Loehr, mines engineer and Hiram E. Shorey, tailor. The members chose the name Rotary because they rotated club meetings to each member’s office each week.

According to its constitutions (”Charters”), Rotary defines itself as a non-partisan, non-sectarian organization. It is open to business and professional leaders of all ages and economic status. Its membership tends towards the middle-aged and wealthy.

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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 two airports accessed through U.S. flights (MPX and LIN). The 1-800 phone numbers and Web links for these airlines are available at this magazine’s Airline page.

 

Train travel to the Cinque Terre region is recommended for its convenience. It is an arduous voyage by car, with no available parking in most of the villages. Similarly, the 50 mile trip north from the Cinque Terre to Santa Margherita/Portofino is easy and inexpensive via train.

If you are traveling elsewhere in Italy and/or Europe by train, you may want to consider a Eurail pass or an Italy-only regional train pass. These are availabe from Europe Through the Back Door, Inc., (206) 771-8303 and Europe by Eurail.

Staying There: Although the Cinque Terre region is still relatively unkown in relation to other sections of the Italian Riviera, it is popular with Italians. This fact, coupled with the small size of the villages, means that it is a good idea to have reservations at lodging establishments in the summer. Avoid weekends in August.

Our stay at Pension Sorisso’s, the only hotel in Vernazza, was very pleasant with good meals. The hotel is close (but not too close) to the train stop and only a few hundred feet from the harbor (Phone: 812224). Sorisso’s is a full-pension hotel, requiring that you have breakfast and dinner there. But the food is good and the price is reasonable.

A variety of lodging accommodations and eating establishments for the five Cinque Terre villages are described in detail in Rick Steves’ Italy. This and other good references for Italian travel, such as Fodor’s Italy, are also available via the amazon.com link below.

Accommodations in Portofino are limited to expensive three and four-star hotels in the hills above the harbor. There is a greater variety of lodging in Santa Margherita, and the access to Portofino during the day is convenient. Additionally, Santa Margartita has a much broader base of restaurants. Rick Steve’s Italy also suggests lodging in Santa Margherita.

Fast Facts:

Italy’s Cinque Terre region consists of five beautiful coastline villages along a 10-mile stretch just north of La Spezia. The main occupations of the villagers revolve around their vineyards and fishing, The population of each town is less than 1,000, except for Monterossa with 2,000 inhabitants. The train provides access between the villages at approximately 2 hour intervals. Hiking trails also connect the villages. Auto routes are very arduous.

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For a long while we have been considering a recipe which truly represents the cuisine of the Liguria Ponente, a recipe which satisfies two indelible characteristics: the sparseness of the raw materials and ‘the inspiration which transforms such a limitation into something wonderfully unique’. It then follows that the preparation is easy and straightforward and based on ingredients readily available anywhere. The choice, and we think somewhat provocatively, is “Pan e pumata” also known as “Bistecca sanremasca” or “Sanremo Steak”. The preparation of this dish has always been popular and widespread, even during the leanest of years.

People may ask what can be so satisfying about placing tomatoes between two pieces of bread, but it is this humble honesty that makes the final result so marvellous.

The “Pan e pumata” is decidedly west Ligurian, although its value didn’t escape the attention of people such as Domenico Scarlatti, the great musician.

Originally from Naples, an indulger of good food and wine, he turned up in many of the courts of Italy, Spain and Portugal and didn’t hesitate to mention the Neopolitan “pagnottelle”, which is also filled with tomatoes.

ingredients

32 tomatoes, bread, garlic, olive oil, basil, sea salt.

making it

For two people, take a large flat rustic loaf of bread, such as those which preserve well, and cut it horizontally in two.

In the same way, horizontally cut a pair of ripe sweet summer tomatoes.

Bathe the two bread halves in a little extra virgin olive oil and fry them with a touch of garlic.

Next, take the tomato halves and squash them with your fingers over the soft part of one of the pieces of bread, in such a way as the tomato breaks up into large pieces and sheds some of its water.

Sprinkle a pinch of large salt granules over the bread together with a little more oil and a fresh young basil leaf.

The large salt grains will melt a little, and the sour taste forms a pleasant contrast with the sweet tomatoes.

Place the other bread half on top and press down lightly.

Cut into two and eat immediately

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The cuisine of the Ponente Ligure is green, fragrant, with simple ingredients cleverly mixed together. But it is also a very light cuisine, almost vegetarian with flavors very closely tied to olives. Some dishes, such as “cappon magro” are the best expression of the mixture of products deriving from the earth and the sea. The Ligurian cooking has taken its peculiarity from other influences such as those from the Middle East, Spain and North Africa, having passed long periods of contact and exchange. We find a wide use of vegetables and herbs used in preparation of fillings for pastry covered dishes, stuffed veal, soups, and the magnificent “pesto” (basil sauce). A wide use of “white” meats is customary: chicken, rabbit, or pasture meats such as goat, lamb, not to forget wild boar and snails. Pine nuts, walnuts, olives, and mushrooms appear often, as also fritters, bread foccacce, and pizzas are widely eaten. Blue fish prevails: sardines and anchovies and sea bass, salt cod, stockfish. In the pastas, ravioli are placed on top of the list followed by pansoti (pasta filled with herbs and greens), trofie, trenette, gnocchi.

The oven cooked flat cheese garnished “focaccia” bread of Recco is a marriage of ancient and simple flavours, the intense and fresh fragrance of soft “stracchino” cheese spread overa thin layer of bread.

Then the “trofie” which, in their elongate and somewhat knaggy shape, carry the patient marks of the housewives who have formed these little noodles, one by one, with an expert and skilful touch; a rite of former times, crowned by the encounter of pasta and pesto, the savoury sauce of Liguria. Gastronomy and good healt go arm in the paradise of Mediterranean diet and the extra virgin olive oil dignifies a light and digestible menu.

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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 and landscape make of this strip of land expanding up to the French boundary a real pearl of Italy.

In the ancient eras it was called Matuzia, to remind one of Caio Matuzio’s patrician palaces, built on the westside of the city, or, as a popular legend tells, as a memorial to the Matuta Goddess, God of the Sea and Dawn. Famous princes, literates, and scientists came to San Remo to enjoy the deep blue sea and the intense scent of its flowers.

High-rise free, this part of the coastline seems to uphold the image being projected by the Riviera and its magnificent albeit hedonistic way of life. Luxury villas lined with palm trees, long expansive beaches with cabana filled beach clubs and a large walk along the Mediterranean.

Flowers abound in pretty San Remo, a friendly reminder that this is the source of all the flowers needed to manufacture special scents.

San Remo lies in a wide inlet between Capo Nero and Capo Verde. It is a place where ends meet. Its old town is called La Pigna and is characterized by perched houses, steep streets, covered alleys, and little squares - just a glimpse of the Medieval times ,where weekly flea markets are held every Saturday. There is also a huge indoor food market overflowing with local produce and wine.

In Pigna there is a hill that tourists climb just to get a breathtaking view of the Levante and the Ponente.

The modern town turned a village of fishermen into an elegant, world-wide famous seaside resort. Nowadays San Remo welcomes tourists and visitors all year round and entertains them with shows and numberless amusements. San Remo is famous for its Casino which was built in 1905 and is the undisputed realm of green cloth, roulette, and slot machines lovers. Just like in Monte Carlo, residents of San Remo are forbidden to play in the casino.

Several selected shows are held in San Remo every year. The Italian Song Festival is but a clear example.

The Russian Orthodox Church, which was built for visiting Russian aristocrats, was also constructed in San Remo as specifically requested by the aristocrats who were attracted to the mild weather in the region.

San Remo is the town of art, culture, and sports: fishing, diving, canoing, wind surfing, and motor boating - together with golfing, riding, swimming, baseball, and fitness facilities.
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San Remo is also called the Town of Flowers - its flowers are well-known all over the world - and this can be clearly seen in its luxuriant gardens, its colorful flowerbeds, and in the town parks where tropical plants flourish.

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