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The beautiful Ligurian Riviera’s village of Sestri Levante<\/strong> is the door to the Cinque Terre, as from here bays, inlets, small corners and rocks plunging into the sea follow one another. It is a typical landscape stretching from Punta Mesco to Punta di Montenero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sestri Levante has even got two bays. The western Bay of the Fairy Tales<\/strong> was given its name by the author Hans Christian Andersen. The Bay of Silence<\/strong>, even more attractive, lies on the eastern side. It was created by alluvial deposits coming from the Gromolo stream which filled the distance separating the \u2018island\u2019, which no longer exists, from the land\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the island and the land are joined, the beautiful town of Sestri Levante was founded. The history of Segesta Tigulliorum \u2013 this is the toponym, from which the current name probably derives \u2013 is very long. It dates back to 2800 BC. Both Etruscans and Romans crossed its lands. In the 16th century it already had today\u2019s name after being Siestri in Petrarch\u2019s \u2018Africa\u2019and in Dante\u2019s \u2018Purgatorio\u2019. The Gothic-Romanesque church of S. Nicol\u00f2 was already over 100 years old and was built on the peninsula separating the two gulfs, which people from Sestri, even today, still obstinately call \u2018Island\u2019. This charming Romanesque building can be reached if you climb up along a paved road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the contrary, if you move along Via Matteotti, you can reach Via XXV Aprile, the ancient alley which unwinds through clothes shops, small restaurants and Renaissance buildings with beautiful street doors decorated with sculpted slate friezes along the walls of the gardens of the erstwhile Palazzo Brignole, now Balbi. So almost without noticing you will get to the bay of Silence, the favourite of the English poet Byron, which runs along a perfect sandy semicircle. It is hedged by two hinted jetties. One detaches itself from the peninsula, whilst the other is an extension of the rock coming down from the Mandrella hill. The landscape is completed by the beautiful promenade dedicated to the poet Descalzo and the two marinas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translated by Daniele Canepa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sestri Levante is a beautiful village on the Ligurian Riviera still part of the Metropolitan City of Genoa. You can visit the Bay of Silence, the Bay of Fairy Tales and the historical center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-routes-video-tours-genoa","tag-ligurian-riviera-east"],"yoast_head":"\nLigurian Riviera | Sestri Levante | Italy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sestri Levante in the eastern Ligurian Riviera is famous for his two bays. 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