Liguria has been described as the most beautiful and pictoresque sea front in Europe. Its central location within the old continent works to Liguria's advantage. Besides, Genoa is the region's administrative center as well as the meeting place of the two Rivieras - is right in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea.
CLIMATE
The Ligurian coast in its whole extension (Km 342), from La Spezia to Ventimiglia, offers exceptional attractions both for the holidaymaker and the tourist: a pleasant and temperate climate, an ultra-centenarian touristic and hotel tradition, the excellent modern means of communications, the beaches capable of meeting all needs, and other relevant features - like a tasteful and refined gastronomy, several sports infrastructures, a flourishing centuries-old craftsmanship, a glorious historical past and a rich culture, besides welfare works in constant progress.
The Ligurian Riviera has a deserved good reputation thanks to its exceptionally temperate climate. The Ligurian skies do not know fogs, the Ligurian mountains and hills are rarely covered with snow, while the sun shines during almost the whole year, creating an atmosphere of eternal spring and favouring the development of a blooming vegetation mostly consisting of olive-trees, cypress-trees, palms, chestnut-trees, pinasters, and a wide range of exotic flowers and plants.
The average temperature from November to February is around 11°; from March to May it reaches 20°; in July and August it is around 25° and it lowers at 19° in September and October.
TRADITIONS
The centenarian traditions of Ligurian tourism are particularly consolidated at Sanremo, Alassio, Bordighera, Portofino, Portovenere, Rapallo, towns which offer a very confortable resort also thanks to a long hotel activity and to high-level professional experiences.
Liguria alone, despite its limited territorial area, absorbs 13% of the national touristic movement, with the main seaside towns and with its beautiful hinterland.
30% of the touristic movement in Liguria is constituted by foreigners influx. The lines of communications connecting Genoa and Liguria to the main national and foreign centres are of international importance. They consist of modern highways, railways and maritime junctions, besides airlines leading to the international airport "Cristoforo Colombo".
The two Rivieras beaches can meet all likings: beaches with golden sand in the Riviera di Ponente (western Riviera), with Savona and Imperia provinces; other seaside towns with rocky sand, like the romantic Cinque Terre (in La Spezia province) and the coasts of most of Genoa province.
The coast is full of touristic villages, campings and touristic ports and landings.
GASTRONOMY
Among the regional noteworthy features there is the famous local gastronomy, with the sauce called "pesto" (made of sweet basil, olive-oil, salt, garlic, Parmesan and Pecorino cheese - all is squashed and amalgamated well). This sauce is to be added to the delicious local pastas and to make the famous "minestrone" tasty.
Among the famous dishes there is the "buridda", cooked with fishes and spicy ingredients, the "Pasqualina cake", made of a delicate puff pastry filled with beets, artichokes, eggs and parmesan, etc. Among the natural ingredients constituting the basis of the Ligurian cooking there are: sweet basil, sage, parsley, onion, olive-oil, etc.
LIGURIA: WHAT IT OFFERS
The Ligurian architecture is full of monuments and every age left quite evident traces: rock engravings, amphitheatres, severe Romanesque and Gothic churches, imposing sixteenth-century palaces decorated with stuccos and gold ornaments, sixteenth-century villas embellished with prized baroque frescos, imposing neoclassic public use structures, art galleries where, besides the most representative Ligurian and Italian painting, there are the most important Flemish painters works.
Craftsmanship is a relevant feature of Liguria: Albesola ceramics, Rapallo, Santa Margherita and Portofino laces and embroiderings, Zoagli velvets, Chiavari chairs and famous macramè, Campoligure filigrees and the processing of slate, a black stone from Lavagna zone.
Among the most important Ligurian events: the International Violin Competition "Nicolò Paganini" - Genoa (October), Sanremo Festival - song-competition (February), the International Sailing Trophy "Ermenegildo Zegna" - Portofino (April-May), the International Festival of Piano "Palma d'Oro" - Finale Ligure (August), the International Humour Show - Sanremo (July-August), the International Nautical Show - Genoa (October), the philatelic art, culture, painting, fashion exhibition, cultural conferences, outdoor theatre performances - Borgio Verezzi (July-August), the International Festival of Chamber Music - Cervo (July-August), sailing, cycling, fishing, swimming competitions, tennis, golf, bridge and bowls tournaments.
Finally, the Ligurian Riviera has outdoor cinemas, concert halls, theatres, sail clubs, basket-ball, tennis, golf fields, swimming pools, minigolf, bowls fields, shooting-ranges and acclimatization gardens.
Today Liguria has succeded in maintaining intact its historical-environmental aspect even it was among the first italian Regions to accept those technological innovations that have made it famous all over the world. Today the whole Region is renewed in its architectonic aspect. There have been even some finding of ancient structures situated in a context of great touristic attraction.
Among them, Genoa Ducal Palace, amazing the visitor with its magnificent white facade and valuable statues which decorate it. In ancient times it was the seat of the Seaside Republic Government. Today, after the radical restoration, it is the town cultural centre, whose splendid halls are place of exhibitions of international importance and opened to visitors.
Still in Genoa, there is the largest Aquarius in Europe, inaugurated in 1993, with 50 pools, four of which have a double level of vision for dolphins, sharks, and seals. In it there are over 500 species and over 5,000 animals kept in containers reproducing their natural mediterranean and oceanic habitat. The technological solutions adopted make Genoa Aquarius one of the most advanced in the world.
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REGIONE LIGURIA
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