Liguria - 72 Attractions You Must Visit

Corso Italia - one of the main arteries of Genoa, representing the street and popular promenade. Built in the first decades of the twentieth century, this place has quickly become one of the most important for walking and recreation in the city, among the Genoese, and guests of the city. The promenade was built after the First World War, as a result of the ambitious development plan of the whole neighborhood of Albaro, approved in 1914.

D'Albertis Castle is a historical residence in Genoa, north-western Italy. It was the home of sea captain Enrico Alberto d'Albertis and was donated to the city of Genoa on his death in 1932. It currently houses the Museo Delle Culture del Mondo. IT was built in the gothic revival style and The Museum displays furniture, décor, ethnographic, and archaeological finds collected by Enrico and Luigi Maria d'albertis during their trips to Africa, America, New Guinea, and Oceania.

The Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art in Genoa, located inside Villetta Di Negro, is one of the most important collections of oriental art in Europe and the most important in Italy. It preserves the entire collection of the painter and engraver Edoardo Chiossone, a native of Arenzano but who, after his youth spent in Florence, spent a good part of his life in Japan, directing the Imperial Paper and Values ​​Workshop. of Tokyo.

The Antola Regional Nature Park is a protected natural area located in Liguria and precisely between the Genoese hinterland and the Ligurian Apennines proper. The territory is entirely located in the metropolitan city of Genoa and borders to the north with the province of Alessandria and to the east with the province of Piacenza; it is also easily accessible from the province of Pavia.

The Priamar di Savona fortress is an imposing military complex that dominates the city center at the port. Built between 1542 and 1544 by the Genoese as part of the interventions aimed at the definitive subjugation of the city of Savona by the "Superba", and extended several times, it takes its name from the hill immediately overlooking the sea on which it stands, where the finds of the first inhabited settlements date back to the Bronze Age.

The fortress of Sarzanello is a military fortification that rises in via alla Fortezza on the hill of Sarzanello, near Sarzana, in the province of La Spezia, and dominates the Val di Magra from above. Its nature and its position make it one of the symbols of the city of Sarzana. Since December 2014, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities has been managing it through the Liguria Museum Complex, which in December 2019 became the Regional Directorate for Museums.

The Galata - Museo del mare di Genova is the largest museum dedicated to this genus in the Mediterranean area and also one of the most modern in Italy. The museum houses, in addition to a full-scale reproduction of a Genoese galley, several interactive rooms in which to understand what it meant, in different eras, to go to sea. One of these is the "La Merica" ​​exhibition which shows the journey of our ancestors to America.

L ' island Gallinara or island Gallinaria is an island located off the coast of Liguria, on the Riviera di Ponente, opposite the town of Albenga to whom it belongs. The island is 1.5 km from the coast, from which it is separated by an average 12 m deep channel; it constitutes the Regional Natural Reserve of the Gallinara Island.

The Hanbury botanical gardens are located on the Mortola promontory, on the Ligurian coast, a few kilometers from the French border. They occupy an area of ​​18 hectares, included in the municipal area of Ventimiglia. The park of the villa is one of the most famous acclimatization gardens in Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

The Golfo Paradiso is a small gulf located on the eastern coast of the metropolitan city of Genoa, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Genoa, in the Ligurian Sea. The district, belonging to the metropolitan area of Genoa, squeezed between the large municipality of the Ligurian capital and the promontory of Portofino, borders to the north with the Val Fontanabuona, and consists of seven municipalities, of which five on the sea and two without access to the gulf.

The caves of Borgio Verezzi - also known as Valdemino caves - are a complex cavity karst relevant tourist located in Borgio Verezzi, in the province of Savona. The cave complex is managed directly by the Municipality of Borgio Verezzi. They are a classic example of a karst phenomenon, whose structure has been generated over time by the slow erosion of water through the rock.

The Cervara abbey, or abbey of San Girolamo al Monte di Portofino, is a former monastic complex, a place of Catholic worship, located along the provincial road 227 which leads from Santa Margherita Ligure to the village of Portofino. The abbey is surrounded by various gardens, including an Italian garden overlooking the sea giving it a unique aura. La Cervara is part of the network of the Great Italian Gardens, the Association of Historic Houses and the Ligurian Gardens.

Balzi Rossi is a toponym given to a beach, a museum, and a complex of caves in which, starting from the second half of the 19th century, numerous artifacts from the Paleolithic era have been discovered. The archaeological site is located near the Grimaldi hamlet of Ventimiglia, a short distance from the border crossing of Ponte San Ludovico between Italy and France. IT was one of the iconic attractions in this area and attracts a lot of tourists.

Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli is the name of a site included in the World Heritage Site located in the historic center of Genoa. They are a group of streets built by the Genoese aristocracy between the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century when the Republic of Genoa was at the height of its maritime and financial power.

Lérici is an Italian town of 9,908 inhabitants in the province of La Spezia in Liguria. It is the fourth municipality of the province by a number of inhabitants. With the provincial capital and Porto Venere, it is one of the three municipalities that overlook the Gulf of Poets. Its district Tellaro is included in the circuit of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

The Lanterna di Genova is the port lighthouse of the capital of Liguria, the city once called the Superb or Dominant of the seas. In addition to being an indispensable tool for the nocturnal navigation of ships entering and leaving the port, the Lantern is also the city's symbolic monument, almost a totem to Genoese life, and as such is part of the history of the city. The building consists of a tower on two orders of square section with a terrace at the top of each order.

The Magra is a river that flows in Tuscany and Liguria, bathing the provinces of La Spezia and Massa-Carrara, the main river of Liguria by average flow rate at the mouth even if only the terminal part of its course belongs to it; along its path, the largest plain of Liguria is created. The river originates in Tuscany at an altitude1 200 m a.s.l. , between Monte Borgognone.

The upstream Antola is the best known and most popular peak of the Monte Antola group and probably of the Ligurian mountain range. Located between the Scrivia Valley, the Trebbia valley, and the Borbera Valley, it is known for its blooms. From its top, easily accessible, you can enjoy a vast panorama.

The Portofino is the highest mountain of the promontory of Portofino and is part of ' Appennino Ligure. On the summit, there is the Rai broadcasting center inaugurated on 20 September 1953. Mount Portofino is 610 m high and is entirely included in the Portofino Regional Natural Park. It is located on the border between the municipalities of Camogli and Santa Margherita Ligure. The flora of the mountain is typical of the Mediterranean, between the species present there is the bracken.

Mount Toraggio is a mountainous relief that rises on the watershed between the Val Nervia and Roia valley, on the border between Liguria and France. Although this relief is located in the mountain range of the Ligurian Alps, the top of the mountain is just over 20 km from the Ligurian Sea as the crow flies, even from its summit, it is possible to see the beaches of Bordighera and San Remo.