Archive for the ‘Liguria’ Category
Britons top Italy overseas investors' league
Posted in Emilia-Romagna,Sardinia,Tuscany,Property andLiguria8th January, 2010
Britons remain the most enthusiastic foreign investors in the property in Italy market, new research shows. They make up nearly one in four (24 per cent) of overseas requests for Italian property, with Germans accounting for 21 per cent. UK buyers a...
Liguria Property: Ventimiglia
Posted in Liguria19th October, 2008
Italy’s Liguria coast has fewer more spectacularly festive sights than Ventimiglia’s La Battaglia dei Fiori (the Battle of the Flowers). Film legend Cary Grant is said to have called it “the greatest show in the world” when he saw it in the mid-50...
San Fruttuoso, Liguria
Posted in Liguria30th September, 2008
The coast of Liguria (Italian Riviera) has many serene, undiscovered gems to visit. Few are more serene and lovely than the small village of San Fruttuoso, midway between Portofino and Camogli and on the edge of the sprawling park to which Portofin...
Alassio's fine idea
Posted in Italy,News from Italy andLiguria24th September, 2008
Of all the ways to boost flagging tourism over summer it was arguably one of the most innovative. In the Italian Riviera resort of Alassio – a few miles north of Imperia along Liguria's coast – tourists and other motorists who parked illegally go...