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The Oratory of San Giacomo stands on the Costa hill, the highest and oldest part of the town of Levanto, along the lane that climbs towards the ruins of the old church of Santa Maria della Costa. It is the seat of the confraternity dedicated to the apostle James, patron of seafarers, and in its … Read more
The Town Loggia (Loggia comunale) is Levanto’s signature monument: one of the very few civic buildings of medieval origin of its kind that survive in Liguria. It overlooks Piazza del Popolo, in the heart of the village, with five depressed arches resting on four columns and two end pillars whose Romanesque-style capitals are carved in … Read more
High in the Val di Vara, the green Apennine valley that climbs behind the Riviera di Levante into the province of La Spezia, the Cooperativa Casearia Val di Vara is one of the oldest and best-loved organic dairies in Liguria. Founded in 1978 through the combined effort of the valley’s own farmers, it gathers milk … Read more
In the heart of Varese Ligure, a village in the Val di Vara in the La Spezia hinterland, the Fieschi Castle dominates the celebrated medieval Borgo Rotondo, the “round village”. Commissioned by the powerful Genoese family of the Fieschi, counts of Lavagna, as a defensive stronghold controlling the valley, the complex preserves two distinct late-medieval … Read more
