Page 13 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Italian Riviera

DISC OVERING THE IT ALIAN RIVIER A  11

Two Weeks in the Riviera

• Watch the world go • From the charming
by from a waterside bar square in central
at the lovely sheltered Albenga, take in the
0 kilometres 20 cove of Portofino. Roman Baptistry and
0 miles 20 • Gaze at the dazzling sea medieval Cathedral
view from the headland of San Michele.
church of San Pietro at • Tour the ancient and
beautiful Portovenere. unspoiled villages of the
• Take a boat ride to the Armea and Crosia
beachside Benedictine Valleys in the hinter-
abbey at San Fruttuoso. land of San Remo.
• Enter the fanciful • Follow in the steps of
under world of the French Impressionist
stalagmites, stalactites painter, Claude Monet,
and crystals in the in the pretty medieval
Pentema Lago di
Brugneto Grotte di Toirano. village of Dolceacqua.
Torriglia
Bormida Genoa Lavagna

Camogli Rapallo
San Fruttuoso
Ligurian
Noli Portofino
Sea
Grotte di Varigotti Sestri
Toirano Levante
Albenga Vara
Arroscia
Key Levanto
Monterosso
Alassio A Week in the Riviera R i v i e r a d i L e v a n t e
Impero
Vernazza Cinque Terre
Two Weeks in the Riviera Corniglia
Crosia Manarola Sarzana
Valley Armea Valley Riomaggiore La Spezia
R i v i e r a d i P o n e n t e
Dolceacqua Oneglia Portovenere
Balzi Porto
Rossi Maurizio
Hanbury San Remo Bussana
Vecchia
Botanical Bordighera
Gardens

Portofino, Riviera
di Levante
Nestled in a protected
inlet, surrounded by lush
cypress- and olive-clad
slopes is the beautiful
Ligurian town of Portofino.

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