A gulf like this is unique you won’t find it in the whole Mediterranean. This is the most recurrent phrase pronounced with pride by those who live in the Gulf of Poets, a natural bay with the city of La Spezia in the center and the enchanting villages of Lerici and Portovenere at both ends. An environment so suggestive that …
CORNIGLIA, THE VILLAGE THAT LOOKS AT THE SEA FROM ABOVE
It is the only town in the Cinque Terre that does not have direct access to the sea, but it is the one from which the sea is best seen. Corniglia, located between Manarola and Monterosso, stands on a spur of rock about ninety meters high, a promontory that dominates the entire coast of the Cinque Terre at 180 degrees. …