The richest and most developed Italian region, Lombardy, often it seems to have more in common with its northern neighbors, than with the rest of Italy. This is not surprising, when its history is remembered: przez ponad dwa stulecia …
Portovenere, San Terenzo i Lerici, Tellaro
Portovenere
The tiny village of PORTOVENERE lies on a small one, bounding the bay to the west by a peninsula. The road from La Spezia is extremely winding, and streamers pass over huge gaps, but the views of the bay and the islands of Palmaria and Tino are beautiful. The town's buildings stand over …
Gulf of Spezia
Gulf of Spezia
Even though La Spezia is a large port and shipbuilding city, Golfo di Spezia has not lost its beauty, because the area is occupied by a very developed coastline, peninsulas and islets, turned out to be big enough, to avoid being dominated by …
Od Sestri Levante do Cinque Terre
Od Sestri Levante do Cinque Terre
From Lavagna around the bay there is a road to SESTRI LEVANTE, one of the most commercialized holiday resorts south of Genoa. A narrow isthmus here divides the coast into two distinct parts: "Bay of Fairy Tales", supposedly so named by …
Chiavari, Blackboard
Chiavari i okolice
From the main road from Rapallo to Chiavari, there are signposts, the path leading to small sea coves (at any of them you can ask the bus driver to stop). Further, the incredibly winding road goes a little inland and …
Rapallo
On the mountainous terrain and the jagged shore around Monte Portofino, the coast becomes flatter and forms the Gulf of Golfo di Tigullio, stretching in a wide arc through 28 kilometers . There are no quiet and undeveloped areas near the beach, a …
Monte Portofino cape
Monte Portofino cape
PORTOFINO town, located at the very end of the Monte Portofino cape, it is picturesque and boring at the same time. This tiny summer resort is like a miniature of a wealthy city moved to the seaside. After seeing expensive restaurants and the coastal lace shops, no stays here …
Riviera di Levante
Riviera di Levante (Riviera of the rising sun), a stretch of coast stretching east of Genoa, not suitable for a quiet beach holiday. Wanting to get a tan at least a little, in the more popular summer resorts you have to fight hard for just a scrap of a pebble beach or …
From Bordighera to the French border
From Bordighera to the French border
BORDIGHERA is a famous summer resort. A special capital of this town is the surrounding palm plantation. The leaves of these palms are used in the Vatican during Holy Week. This monopoly goes back a year 1586, when that's sure …
From San Remo into the province
From San Remo into the province
There are two small ones on the hills just outside Sanremo, popular, but completely different towns. The first of them, BUSSANA VECCHIA makes a rather off-putting impression. After a strong earthquake of the year 1887, houses …