La Spezia Province Map [6730]
In many ways, La Spezia province is the most compelling of Liguria’s four provinces. Here you’ll find the vaunted villages of Le Cinque Terre (shown in red on the map), the romantic Gulf of Poets, and one of my favorite haunts, the Bocca di Magra, the mouth of the Magra river as it empties into the Ligurian Sea near the marble mountains behind Massa and Carrara.
Genoa’s Celebrated Mercato Orientale [6088]
The Mercato Orientale has been around for over a century, and in that time it’s evolved to become a local gathering place focused on food.
The "Rock Villages" of Western Liguria Part Four [1605]
Baiardo: one of the Western Riviera’s most astonishing “Rock Villages.” A paradise Baiardo may be today, but it has experienced hellish times…
Privacy Policy [2050]
Lunae Bosoni Winery: Winery of the Year 2020 [1248]
Cantine Lunae Bosoni at the eastern end of Liguria in La Spezia province has won Vinitaly’s 2020 wine of the year award—and it’s an awesome winery to visit, especially during Cantine Aperte, a festival of open wine cantinas.
Christopher Columbus and Genoa [8151]
Every Day is Columbus Day in Liguria. Columbus was from Genoa.
Columbus’s journey was a feat of navigation, a demonstration not only of foolhardy confidence – the intrepid sea captain was sailing in the wrong direction, after all, if he hoped to reach India – but also of fearless entrepreneurialism. The goal was to find a short, safe passage toward riches.
