Liguria & the Italian Riviera
Day 6 - After our visit to the monastery in Pavia we will leave the Lombardy Region and continue on our way to Liguria and the Italian Riviera Liguria, a 186 mile-long boomerang-shaped region of Italy, stretches from Frances’ Provence-Alps-Cote d’Azur on the west to Tuscany on the east. The name comes from the Liguris who inhabited the whole northwestern part of Italy 2,000 years ago. The continental shelf on which Liguria sits is very narrow and extremely steep. It is divided into 4 provinces - Imperia, Savona, Genoa and LaSpezia, with Genoa, the birthplace of Christopher Columbus, being the capital and Italy’s main port. We will visit the province of La Spezia and the villages of Cinque Terre with an optional excursion into Genoa to visit Sestri Levante and Portofino. Liguria's coastline is the famous Italian Riviera. The area east of Genoa is known as “Riviera di Levante - Coast of the Rising Sun”, while the area west of ...