Walking in Italy (Lonely Planet)
LIGURIA / ITALIAN RIVIERA - The Highlights
- SPECTACULAR VIEWS
- HISTORIC FOOTSTEPS/ROUTES
- ANCIENT CULTURES
- GOURMET DELIGHTS
- ADVENTURE CHALLENGES
- WILDLIFE RAMBLES
- BIODIVERSITY
https://www.britannica.com/place/Liguria
https://www.fodors.com/world/europe/italy/the-italian-riviera
https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/italy/italian-riviera
https://www.backroads.com/trips/WQTQ-Z/cinque-terre-tuscany-easygoing-walking-tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r14c3xWgK3M
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/apr/21/foodanddrink.features16
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/travel/52-places-golfo-paradiso-italy.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/travel/liguria-italy-mediterranean.html?searchResultPosition=2
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/travel/23choice.html#
In Northern Italy, a Crossroads of Culinary Arts
Mark Bittman
In most of Italy’s villages and towns, restaurants serve the same dishes they’ve been serving for a hundred years or more. These vary from one town to the next, even if the distances traveled are tiny, and the locals usually insist that the food in the last town you visited is inferior to what you’re about to taste. About half the time they’re right.
In the cities, though, you find more regional food, and even — gasp — food from other parts of Italy, giving you a taste of more varied cuisines. Genoa, in the heart of Liguria, is one of the best cities for this sort of pan-Italian eating, at least in part because the region is among Europe’s culinary highlights; it remains difficult to eat any way but well here.
Though Genoa is not the largest city in Northern Italy (both Milan and Turin are bigger), it is the country’s most important port and features, in the città vecchia (old city), what is among the most sprawling, best preserved and most active medieval quarters in Europe. Here you find the typically narrow lanes that can barely accommodate anything wider than a scooter; at least three world-class churches; and, at the border with the “new” city, a street of spectacular palazzi. These days, the area includes dozens (I’m tempted to write “countless,” but indeed the list is finite) of restaurants that leave me walking around muttering, “If there were only one of these in my neighborhood, I’d be happy.”
Genoa also has a population that cares deeply about food, in a way that is ordinarily reserved for towns and villages. The artichokes from nearby Albenga are practically worshiped; anchovies are considered daily fare (you may eat more of them in a day here than you do in a year at home); pine nuts, olives, local seafood and herbs (especially basil, of course) are all ubiquitous, and the continuing dedication to the old ways is evident on nearly every street, in the bakeries that make farinata (the chickpea flatbread akin to Nice’s socca), vegetable tortas and focaccia, in the vegetable markets the size of closets and in the shop that sells tripe and nothing but.
RURAL LANDSCAPES
DRY-STONE WALLS
TERRACES
MILLS
OIL MILLS
WATER MILLS
RUSTICO
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/it/dizionario/italiano-inglese/rustico
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english/rustico
rural house
store
little/small, tiny
stone
shelter
shed
ruins
abandoned
dilapidated
- A rural handcraft building used as shelter, storage and working space, often used for cattle keeping.
- A historical rural building, used for country life jobs and activities
- An abandoned rural house in local stone, dedicated to storage or dwelling purposes in the mountains
- A rustico is a rural small shelter made of local stones. Nowadays it is usually abandoned, but once was used to host cattle or store food, as well as to provide people with shelter in the hills.
COUNTRY
REGION
PROVINCE
CITY
TOWN
VILLAGE
HAMLET
BORGO
DISTRICT
MUNICIPALITY
CAPITAL
SETTLEMENT
CENTRE
COAST –
COASTAL - SEASIDE
COUNTRYSIDE
ENTROTERRA
RURAL AREA
URBAN AREA
SUBURBIAN
AREA
INDUSTRIAL
AREA
INLAND AREA
