Bonassola - Italy

Bonassola (SP)

Liguria (Italy)

The Bonassola gulf opens between Levanto and Framura the foot of the last survey, which descend from the pass of Bracco.
Although no marina, the bay is happy position and allows an easy port to small boats.
The seabed is varied and suitable for dives of medium difficulty, particularly in the reef inside the bay is sandy.
The beach is wide and almost entirely of gravel.
Belonged to the Da Passano, Bonassola in the thirteenth century it passed to Genoa, which exploited the small and well protected bay as a naval base.
The castle, of which a few ruins remain after construction of the railway was built in 1560 after a disastrous looting pirates.
Interesting eighteenth-century buildings in the village, such as building and building flour flavor.
The parish of St. Catherine is the sixteenth century in a San Francisco attributed to Bernardo Strozzi, other artists Ligurian and a valuable body of the eighteenth century.
Shortly afterwards, the church of San Giorgio, in the homonymous village, built with stones of the ancient clock tower collapsed a land subsidence, the chapel of the Madonna della Punta, on the cliff of the western promontory, is a destination for a walk easy and attractive.
But they are the ancient towns along the hillside hiking destinations more attractive.
Montaretto Bonassola is reached by a path through the middle of vines and olive trees, or from the village of Cern.
A short distance from town is an old hospital for pilgrims, remodeled for the Jubilee of 2000.
Continuing to get to Reggimonti, another very old town, where is the church of Santa Maria Assunta of the thirteenth century.
Levanto is easily reached on foot along the path to the sea in the Mediterranean, which in some crosses the old abandoned railway.