The city small of Levanto has ancient origins much. First to inhabit this zone
they were From Liguria populations and this we can assert it with absolute certainty
from the ritrovamenti of the tombe to cassette of the age of the iron.
After they the village was dominated from the Roman that considered the zone a lot important from a
point of view trades them. Then it was the time of the Bizzantini and after they, after one short
domination of the Malaspina duration approximately 100 years, Levanto in 1211 joined spontaneously
to Republic of Genoa from which it was considered, for the demonstrated fidelity, always to the
stregua of common a free one.
In 1265 it was constructed " loggia" while the podestà dwelled in the pieve of S. siro.
Short and tumultuous they were the dominations that were ollowed and we cite between this Castruccio
Castracani in the '300 or King Roberto of Naples until culminating in the domination napoleonica before
definitive creation of Reign of Italy. of all this to ollow itself of events some memories are joints
until to we. Draft as an example of castle operates of the Malaspina and restructured from genovesi or
of it walls of town-walls between which still today prominence the tower of the clock. Today Levanto marks
it like important tourist center of the coast of Levant also and above all thanks to the creation of modern
and comfortable structures that they have known not to deturpare the splendid landscapes that still today
can to you to admire.
