History
This strip of land was nominated by Romans with two names: Ad Solaria and Tegullia (or Tegolata). There were two important cities in the Roman Age, Tigullia Intus and Se Gesta Tigulliorum. The memories of this region date back of the Greek Age for Se Gesta Tigulliorum (now Sestri Levante) and of the Roman Age for Tigullia Intus. There have been many hypothesis for the identification of this one with a Ligurian town or another one. Some people say it was San Salvatore in LAVAGNA, some others RAPALLO and other else TRIGOSO (Sestri Levante).

The Tigullio Gulf
The Gulf starts from the very famous Portofino (mentioned by Plinio as Portus Delphini) with the protected area of Portofino promontori which extends from Camogli to Punta Pedale. Here you can admire a wonderful terrestrial and underwater park. In the San Fruttuoso bay there is the statue of Abysses’ Christ, easily reachable in apnea too (40-60 ft.). The little port, very characteristic and ancient fishers’ port, is destination of tourists coming from the whole world. There are then Santa Margherita, Rapallo (important city of Tigullio Gulf), Zoagli, placed on the hills as if it would dive in te warm and quiet waves of Ligurian Sea, Chiavari, the Tigullio chief town with the naturalistic park called “Villa Rocca”, the ancient Comunal House and the river Entella, mentioned by the supreme poet Dante Alighieri as “fiumana bella”, which separates Chiavari from Lavagna (with the greatest tourist port in Europe), land of the important family of the Fieschi Counts. There is in the end Setri Levante, the “two sea town”, loved by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, who baptized “Tales Bay” one of the two creeks (“sea”). The other creek is the charming “Silence Bay” (“little sea”).
Beyond Sestri Levante lie down, wondeful as five pretty maiden, the “Cinque Terre”…