Sanremo - Arma di Taggia - Imperia - Pontedassio - Colle S.Bartolomeo - Colle d’Oggia – Carpasio - Taggia – Sanremo
99 kilometers of course on road of Sanrem – Sanremo.
The two most difficult slopes:
Pontedassio – Passo del Ginestro. From 80 m to 677 m sea level
Garlenda – Colle d’Oggia. From 70 m to 1207 m sea level
The road thus descent towards a fantastic panoramic descent towards Taggia, Sanremo direction.
The course proposes a series of marvellous blows of eye on the Coast back-country.
Taggia
Very nice middle age borough, with its walls of 1500.
Thanks to the modern agriculture invented by the monks, able to select the famous quality of Taggiasche olivs, it had long a period of prosperity.
The complex of S.Domenico convent is very interesting.
You have to visit the old borough, the Church of S.Giacomo and S.Filippo and the bridge from the ’500 with its sixteen arcs.
Pontedassio
Plunged in the olive-trees, it is one of the most important center of the average-low valley for the production of high quality olive oil.
You have to visit the S.Margherita church of 1800 and the original Museum of the Spaghetti, wanted by the Agnesi family, pasta producers since 1956.
Carpasio
Into the high Valley Carpasina, this is a small typical borough of the mounts of Liguria, with its small low house and its typical roofs.
Its name derives from a peace treaty (cara pax) between the Romans and the “Epanteri”.
You have to visit the S.Antonino church, restored in 1700, with Roman testimonys and its bell-tower.
Noble past and a rural and quiet present.
Badalucco
At the bottom of the Valley, at the edge of Argentina, on a low hill vis-a-vis with the Faudo mount, you reach Badalucco with the original bridge of S.Lucia, its two asimetric arcs and its small vault.
The Assunta and S.Giorgio church has a elegant baroque facade and inside a wooden Vergin of Maragliano and two angels of the Bernini school, just opposite the Boeri Palace of ’500.
Garlenda
Nature reigns sovereign in this quiet locality which conquers the visitor with the serenity of his wood and the perfumes of nature.
Its principal attraction is represented by the Golf Garlenda Club, which since 1965 offers a layout of 18 holes in a projected landscape from the architects Morrison and Harris.
The field is always open and has a course almost of 6 km with 72 starts.
Bussana
When the earthquake in 1887 destroyed old Bussana, its inhabitants built this new center.
But, compared to the originating core, forms and volumes were seriously diverged.
A main effort was necessary in the realization of the Sanctuary of Sacro Cuore, started in 1883 and devoted twelve years afterwards.
The imposing interior with a single, long nave of 45 MT lenght, is decorated with superabundance with cements, gildings, sculptures and decorations.
Bussana Vecchia
Walking along the small lanes of this “phantom” city, victim of the instability of the Maritime Alps, is a considerable experience: especially suggestive it is the baroque Sacro Cuore Church, whose bell-tower still remains.
Since many years the country has been occupied by Italian and foreign artists, craftsmen and tradesmen who revitalized it.
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