… The Port of La Spezia, that is all the Gulf, is one of the more
wonderful things that are in Italy… going back from Portovenere
towards the bottom of the gulf, a gulf is found that the Chestnut is called;
then one heads of earth, where there is a fort; then, a gulf, that is the port
of Varignano, wonderful…
Chearles De Montesquieu
(Viaggio in Italia 1728)
Many poets and writers, in course of the history, is remained it bewitches
to you from beauty of the places and of atmospheres that the Gulf of Spezia unavoidablly it provokes.
This is the reason for which it has been renamed the " Gulf of the Poeti": Dante, Byron,
Montesquieu, Shelley, Wagner, Of Notice, Hemingway, Mounts them, Soldiers they are only some of
the masters that they have left testimony of the fascination inspired from these territories.
Like in I embrace the Gulf is delimited from
Portovenere and Lerici, antichi dense villages of history and suggestion,
today delicious goals tourist that preserves however their original one carisma.
Inside of the insenatura, covering the coast, countries are met equally
charming like the bay of Thanks and from the opposite side Saint Terenzo and
Tellaro.
It emerges in every angle of Gulf the relationship univoco and vital with the sea,
the element hinge nearly all the tied activities to the city and its outskirtses, from the tourism to Military arsenal,
from the Mercantile Port to the " peasants of the mare". As in I fresco that he reproduces life scenes
daily and of history last, between ends and panoramas, between antichi carrugi and modern public squares, the Gulf of
the Poets represents one of the scenes that mainly it deserves of to be known.
