Laid down on the thin land strip of an enchanting peninsula,
rich with mediterranean vegetation, Sestri Levante shuts in
the Gulf of Tigullio arch facing east and offers the most
typical expression of the Ligurian landscape.
Sestri
Levante is also known as “the town of the two seas”
as the historical built up area extends as far as a peninsula
separating two gulfs: “Baia del Silenzio”, (the
Bay of Silence) eastwards, faced by the historical buildings
and, facing west, “Baia delle Favole” (the Bay
of Fairy tales), so named by Hans Christian Andersen, the
famous Danish writer, to whom an annual literary award is
dedicated in Sestri during Summer.
This
historical area is rich with 15th century buildings with their
characteristic slate doorways. Besides the Romanesque church
of San Nicolò, Sestri offers an important picture-gallery
“the Galleria Rizzi” that keeps precious paintings
of the 17th and 18th century, and several perfectly preserved
villas of the same period.
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