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How to get there: From La Spezia or Lerici exit at La Spezia or Sarzana (Highway A12 Genoa-Rosignano).
At the city doors of La Spezia there is the mercantile and industrial port and from here you will reach Luggiano and you will find a series of small shipyards. After passing the dark Scoglietti tunnel you will see a beautiful town of Lerici. This is the magic of the entire gulf of La Spezia with its natural bays and coastal paradise that is so loved because of its beauty thanks to Bayron, Schelling and other great writers. The gulf of La Spezia was denominated the Gulf of Poets because it expresses the sensuality of its coast and the various multicolor views that you can admire from the small promontories that surround it. In this magnificent place rich in history, culture, and its beauty located on the eastern coast in front of Lerici you can see the sea town of San Terenzo and its great Medieval castle. Only a few homes gave life to the extraordinary nucleus even though in the last few years many homes have been built creating its first hinterland. The castle is on a western promontory and it has late Medieval origins. In the 15th and 16th centuries it was widened due to defensive reasons and it had a double castle wall that was reinforced by cylindrical towers. Within the Parish Church dedicated to St. Maria Assunta also known as the Sanctuary della Madonna dell’Arena you will notice prestigious Neoclassical pieces of art and some canvases of the 17th century Genovese school attributed to Fiasella and Carlone. Very interesting are the wooden statues that are located in the apse of the church. The wonderful Villa Magni was the last home of the great English writer Percy Bysshe Shelley and he was killed during a storm when out at sea in his small yacht named Ariel. However it was Lord Byron that saw the sad fire on the beach for the victims of the shipwreck. The prosperous land of poets and writers witnessed the stay of Mary the wife of Shelley and the author of Frankenstein. In the divine Villa Marigola located above the Venere Azzurra beach the pride of the Villa Pearce stands, which has been renamed the center of international conventions. In the small tower of the Villa, Sem Benelli who was a great Tuscan playwright wrote the “Cena delle Beffe.” Not far away a plaque reminds us that in those places the Englishmen Emmusca Orczy wrote all his books of the “Primula Rosa.” Of great interest is the Park that surrounds the superb Villa Bibolini and from here you can enjoy a view that has tones of the blue sea and the green Mediterranean shrubs.
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