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Seeking gifts at the antiques market in Chiavari
Looking for a gift, especially for Christmas, isn’t it becoming a little bit stressful for you too? Bombarded by a commercial...
| Liguria food guide | Beigua Park.
Do you know the Beigua Park? It is one of the great protected natural parks of Liguria that stretches behind Arenzano and Varazze, west of...
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...
A day in Val d’Aveto, from Rezzoaglio down.
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...
|Liguria Inland | Autumn in Val Graveglia and roasted chestnuts
A contemplative post this time. I spent the last two weekend in Val Graveglia harvesting chestnuts and mushrooms and this is a short photo...
Bitter orange blossoms water: Italian Riviera aristocratic essence
Bitter orange tree comes from far away. It started its journey from South East Asia and seed by seed it made its way through Oman, Persia and Egypt to arrive in 1000 AC on the coasts of the Arabian Mediterranean Sea
Albenga violet asparagus: sweet, buttery and unique
Why Albenga violet asparagus – a very ancient local variety - has such exclusive famous attributes and nonetheless is cultivated just by...
Dried chestnuts of Bormida Valley, an ancient precious slow food presidia.
In the Bormida Valley, a narrow valley behind Savona on the Ligurian Appennines, and precisely in the tiny villages of Calizzano and...
The white beans of Pigna, and Roberto and Elisa
This summer of the year 2016, declared by FAO "International Year of Pulses" I decided to go discovering our famous white beans of Pigna,...
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