Cinque Terre: Getting there, Staying, Getting Information [1428]
Practical information about the Cinque Terre including trekking, hiking, eating, hotels, vineyards and wineries, plus Cinque Terre lodging, train and ferry information.
Dolceacqua: Sweet water, superb wine and Monet [2615]
Filling the bottom of the Nervia Valley Dolceacqua was the fiefdom and birthplace of the powerful Doria clan.
A medieval stone footbridge arches over the Nervia River, which is more a creek clogged with boulders than the rushing river I’d expected from the tourist brochures—and from umpteen photos and paintings, including a famous one by the Impressionist Claude Monet.
Museo di Palazzo Reale Genoa [2978]
Check out how the privileged folks lived in Genoa’s golden ago with a museum not so far from the train station in Genoa.
Rapallo: A Giant Outdoor Chessboard [1253]
Rapallo is a handsome seaside town set in a series of curving bays. It’s backed by the 1,900-foot-tall Montallegro, a mountain refuge with a historically important and also stunningly beautiful Baroque sanctuary.
Rapallo was among the Italian Riviera’s first tourist resorts. Early on it drew European and Russian aristocrats and American nouveaux riches. Frederich Nietzsche wrote the bulk of his masterpiece Thus Spake Zarathustra while staying in Rapallo and visiting Montallegro, among other nearby sites.
Portofino Travel Guide [2386]
Portofino is where you take your Ferrari, even if it is rented, to gaze at the yachts in the harbor and far neinte with a drink in your hands at a bar along the water’s edge.
