{"id":5921,"date":"2015-04-16T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T14:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2015-04-16T17:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T15:00:13","slug":"liguria-villages-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/liguria-villages-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Liguria in the Others’ Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes my native land seems a book written in a foreigner language. An ancient door, uncannily carved, with a lock to which I don’t own the key.<\/p>\n

Here more than elsewhere, you need to be patient to find what you are looking for: a wonderful and desert beach, a village without overbuilding, an unknown taste (farinata, panissa, bianchetti’s omlette, sacripantina… It’s better I stop here!).<\/p>\n

You need to watch through a particular look, an instinct that prefers narrow alleys to large boulevards, hidden bakeries to restaurants, getting lost to looking for…<\/p>\n

In the course of time, Liguria has found its narrators, its poets, its guardians. Their eyes are the best guide to discover it.
\nBut today let them go. Today our guides will be \u201cfuresti\u201d (the ligurian way to call the \u201cstrangers\u201d), some of them weighed anchor from the North…<\/p>\n

To have an idea of what they found, I’m going to introduce them through three hypothetical advertisement to which they should have answered:<\/p>\n

AAA: village in danger is looking for a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist (blond if possible)… Renovation is needed!
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In the hinterland of Laigueglia, at the ending of Savona’s province, there a tiny and peaceful village, a sort of perfect miniature. Stones houses, narrow alleys, creeper plants, big trees and obviously olive trees. Desert also in Summer, except for few inhabitants and the patrons of the only tavern. We are talking about Colla Micheri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Browsing around, we find an information plaque near the church. It informs us that here Thor Heyerdahl has living here for more than thirty years. A short trail leads us in Cape Mele; coming back, just after the ruins of a Saracen tower, we glimpse a colourful tile on a mound of stones. On the tile we read the name of Thor, the dates of his birth and death… and a sailer. Curiosity is becoming irresistible, we must understand who was this man.<\/p>\n

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From the website avosurt.livejournal.com<\/div><\/div>\n

Thor Heyerdahl<\/strong> (Larvik, 1914 – Colla Micheri, 2002) was a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist who made extraordinary travels and sailings to prove his theories. He was a man who knew how to recognise the beauty; he chose this this village as his house, the Saracen tower as the place where write his books. He renovated the buildings saving them from abandon and disrepair.<\/p>\n

Today the village keeps being inhabited and a good starting-point for several well-marked trails<\/strong>. Walking through these routes, passing through the pine groves, the woods of small bushes, you can admire the two adjacent gulfs and the mountain chains behind.<\/p>\n

Our suggestion:<\/strong> to keep on exploring the surroundings (please don’t miss Cervo, a beautiful town really near!), here a relaxing b&b a few kilometres from the sea<\/a>, surrounding by the nature and careful about the environmental sustainability!<\/p>\n\n\t\t