A land of great charm and warm cordial welcomes which is truly Italian in flavor; a crossroads where trade and tourism meet, a place where the colors of the Sea merge with the hues of the Mediterranean flora, in a lush natural setting warmed by a year-around Spring-like climate, which is impervious to the passing seasons. Here the blue of the Sea alternates with the green of the Mediterranean brushwood, rainbow of flowers with the pastel shades of the fishermen houses and the grey hues of the stones of the ancient medieval villages. Olives, vines and citrus trees dominate the hillside, mingling in with the nurseries and their corps of flowers, evidence of human toil and a thousand-year-old civilization which has transformed the appearance of the local area. The technical building peculiarities adopted, handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, give the valleys its today’s clearly evident distinctive feature: dry stone walls, hanging and hollowed steps, passages connecting terraced land strips, kilometers and kilometers of mule tracks to join the bottom of the valley to the mountain, paved with cobblestones in the flatlands and with squared-off stone steps in the most unapproachable places. A special land, with very mild climate, unique, protected in the north by the Maritime Alpes and open in the south, to a pleasant Sea breeze, solace of sunny beaches in every season of the year. The landscape alternates sandy beaches with suggestive cliffs at a sheer drop to the Sea, grouped fishermen villages with vivacious and lively cities with beaches, gardens and comfortable hotels. Behind the coast, the mountains, as far up as the 2,200 m of Mount Saccarello, the highest peak of Liguria, create natural environments of sudden amazement and suggestion among mountains and natural landscapes and, in the valley, of ancient hilltop villages.