From mounts to the unusual sea, routes in the Province of La Spezia
From the castle of the Frost to the abandoned country of Porciorasco, from the coves of don Fresh
Is as soon as exited in bookcase “From mounts to the sea -
unusual routes in the Province of La Spezia”, a simple and synthetic
text written from Michelangelo Moggia and published from Editions
Cinque terre, that it describes to twenty or so places to discover
in city and its outskirtses. From the castle of the Frost to the
abandoned country of Porciorasco, from the coves of don Fresh to
the ruderi of Barbazzano and Portesone, from they of ancient Lagorara all ''
hospita them of Saint Nicolao goes. A distance to the search of our past
and the natural beauties that are found on the provincial territory;
with an eye of with regard to the history and to its direct testimonies.
Of particular interest moreover it is “the virtual” reconstruction of
the tracing of the old ones walls of Spezia, erected in medieval age
and widened to the beginnings of XVII the century, of which by now
they do not remain that least visible portions here and here in the historical center.
“What been in order to read - introduction writes the author nell '' -
it is substantially curiosity fruit. More for a time, finding
to me in turn in machine or on foot and seeing a path, a road,
particular an interesting one is asked to me: “And here what will be” ,
or “Where it will carry this road” And however they have always gone to
verify of person and often time the little lost has been repaid from
what I have found. “The history of the territory emerges
between the understood one them to demonstration that our
city has however a its worthy past of interest and in order
to refute much diffuse the common place, that Spezia always
has been only a small village of fishermen who, in the 1800's,
knew large a how much express development with the construction dell '' arsenal.
In reality it is not therefore, will be discovered reading of the enterprises
of Niccolò Fieschi, of the destruction of Carpena, the incursions of the pirati ones;
but beyond all '' historical aspect routes in charming places from the landscaped
point of view do not lack also, like the falesie of the Muzzerone, the zone of
Punta Mesco or the hill of Mash where the panorama is indeed impressive.