Among the Italian regions absolutely more appreciated from the tourists of the whole world, what they appreciate its naturalistic beauties and the tastes of a typical regional cuisine, Liguria got a lot of different territories that spaces from the mountains of the Apennines to its famous coast. Particularly two places are included in the list of the sites protected by the UNESCO.
The first one includes an absolute “natural heaven” constituted by Porto Venere, Cinque Terre and the isles of the Spezia’s Gulf.
Porto Venere, with its archipelago that with the islands Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto it extends along 18 kilometres, got a suburb still intact with incomparable panoramas. Above all, they are unique the ancient portals of the hold houses placed side by side along the typical carruggis. Characteristics of Porto Venere they are also the two churches of St. Pietro and San Lawrence and the Castle Doria, what it overhangs the suburb representing a particular example of Genoese military architecture. Particularly famous they are then the Cinque Terre, famous also for the typical white wine and represented by the suburbs of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Vernazza, Corniglia and Monterosso. The second site included, since 2006, in the list of the world UNESCO Heritage, it concerns instead the city of Genoa, and particularly its New Roads and the complex of the Rolli’s Palaces.
Built in the period between 1500 and 1600, situated among the medieval on south and the modern streets on north, the New Roads were characterised by an ancient apportionment with over one hundred buildings of noble town families that were drawn to welcome the visits of State.
Actually protected by the UNESCO world Heritage, the Palaces of Rolli (from the name of the official lists for the drawing) represent the first example of urban architecture in modern age in Europe.
