Sestri Levante - Italy

Sestri Levante (GE)

Liguria (Italy)

The isthmus between the Bay of Fables and the Bay of Silence as one of the most beautiful landscapes of Liguria, and is the source of ancient Segesta Tigulliorum, center of primary importance for the Italian Riviera.
Many natural qualities of the site: the ease of landing, the position after a large flood plain and the beginning of important communication routes with the hinterland.
From Sestri be reached easily passes the Bracco (613 m) and well worth the hill (545 m).
The island between the two bays was once very island: the isthmus formed by the accumulation of debris torrent Gromolo.
Here was the first inhabited and are the church of St. Nicholas the twelfth century and the remains of fortifications built by the Genoese, incorporated since 1925 embedded in the 'eclectic Gualino castle, now a hotel: one of its towers Guglielmo Marconi conducted important experiments.
Other major hotels are located in historic buildings, including the large villas with gardens in the village is present both on the heights.
Villa Negrotto Cambiaso is now a convention center, while Villa Durazzo Pallavicini is the town hall, the sumptuous Hotel Villa Balbi is from 1947.
Also contributes to the grandeur of the village, with its neoclassical portico, the Basilica of St. Mary of Nazareth, the eighteenth century in a remarkable painting by Domenico Fiasella.
Antonio Maria Maragliano has instead made the wooden group of the martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria in the church of St. Peter in Chains.
Of particular interest is the private collection of drawings and prints of Rizzi Gallery.
Deserve a trip tip Manara tip Baffe and Mount Castle in the center of the Mediterranean, the village of Santa Vittoria Libiola with the old iron mines, the ancient parish church of Santo Stefano al Ponte very scenic routes and also suitable mountain biking.
Near the galleries for Moneglia there is a climbing wall.
They were born in Sestri Levante and the poet John Descalzo critic and essayist Charles Bo.
Tales of the bay was named by Hans Christian Andersen: Sestri dedicated to him a literary prize in literature for children.