A day in Val d’Aveto, the upper valley
Val D'Aveto, you know, fascinates me deeply. I’ve been visiting it for three summers. Short daily trips, nothing more, hanging around without a precise destination. But it was enough to …
Val D'Aveto, you know, fascinates me deeply. I’ve been visiting it for three summers. Short daily trips, nothing more, hanging around without a precise destination. But it was enough to …
Do you know Val d'Aveto? In 1945, during World War II, Ernest Hemingway, then a war journalist annexed to the American army, crossed it towards Piacenza and in the evening he …
For those of you who are not Ligurian: Levanto is a small village of 6K inhabitants, but during the summer it has as many as 26K, thanks to the tourism …
Liguria has a long tradition linked to pasta, both dry and stuffed. In fact for centuries, along with Campania and Sicily, it contested the primacy in the production and export …
A contemplative post this time. I spent the last two weekend in Val Graveglia harvesting chestnuts and mushrooms and this is a short photo reportage. Just to give you …
The grapes harvesting season in the Italian Riviera has just begun, then what better time to talk a little about the most famous wines produced in Liguria? First of all you …
Where to eat the best Italian Riviera food in Santa Margherita Ligure. If you are spending some days in Santa Margherita you will quite immediately get obsessed on where to find …
Which are the Italian Riviera traditional pasta shapes? What are their origins? How are they made and seasoned? Where to buy some Ligurian pasta? AN HYSTORICAL GLIMPSE FIRST Maybe you don't know that …
Behind the shaped iron gate a dusted road bordered by tall stone columns runs: it cuts in half a large orchard with thick trees of dark green leaves. An ancient …
When I started to travel through Liguria in search of "slow food" stories to tell so to show the most intimate folds of my region territory through the lives of …
Small, delicate, soft, sweet and fragrant. These are Valleggia apricots, arrived long time ago from the Far East, discharged by chance in the port of Savona and in time became a …
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