‘why not English Come here anymore? “The question was asked by a customer in Kuma Rome In the coastal city of Alasio, whose British population can reach 5,000.
I think there are several reasons. From the late nineteenth century, the wealthy British will arrive in October to escape from the cold winter, stay to May, then go home before the Italian summer. These days, the British people may be with this type of wealth in the winter between Zeremat and the Caribbean. But the Great Alacio does not offer more ordinary British who want a summer vacation: August temperatures can reach the height of the thirties, and the price and prices rise, and as in many Italian resorts, the sand is seized through the beach concessions from Easter to September.
However, lovers of blue sky, warm sun rays, good food and outdoor endeavors may find this Lygori resort, a perfect spring or autumn destination. A little more than an hour of Genoa (not more than that of Nice), this fortunate, southeast of Leguri is facing a loop of the hills on a shallow curve of silver sand called Paya del Sol (Sunshine Bay). The accurate climate of Alasio sees that it is constantly a few warmer degrees than its neighbors, with a clear sky with a few spring showering.
It can take a spring trip to Alacio Floier (4-6 April in 2025), the city’s cooking festival with flowers, this year with Sicilian chefs invited to display stalls, taste and excessive increase. As an inspection, some Pigunia pink petals and were surprised by their taste in citrus-ideal in the gelatat.
Several Flauer events are held on Piazza Dei Partigiani, which has a long sea, a minutes of the city’s smart sidewalk, Molo Bestoso, a place for contemporary art galleries until late October. The interior is the narrow streets of the old city, which is called IL Budello (gut), where the old Alassio Association maintains pictures that dates back to before the British “discovered”. A photo taken in 1860 shows that Alassio is just a fishing village, with only a sheep and some dried networks on the virgin sand.
Green hills above Alassio are built a little more now, but it is still mature to explore it. I hear everything about them from lawyer Igor Columbi, who recently ended a project to maintain the previous 56 -miles (90 km) mules from the previous mule leading to the hills. Armed with his map (available in the Tourist Office), and took the railway track off the main road to find the pacemaker to the gravel to Solva. It ends and higher, and more exciting paintings with every hairpin, previous gardens and allocations, under the major trees and olive trees, to the village field and the church with murals in the fourteenth century designed to intimidate believers in behavior.
There are no moisturizers in Solva, but they are just half an hour away, with the end of the path near the wonderful Osteria I Matetti (see below). At the Solva Festival in July, hungry beating can be narrowed BusitDough pies are similar to churros, and perhaps the same amount of bad for you.
A longer track than the southwestern edge in Alasio leads to Moglio Village, with its multicolored homes and views of the bay from a different angle. The Moglio Summer Festival celebrates a lesser specialty: the cooked tuna basin. They are said to have a “decisive” taste. However, there are also simple and intestinal snacks on a panoramic balcony.
For the deepest diving in the remote areas of Alasio, a wise woman, Laura Bratil, who will lead the paths of searching for food (in English if necessary) during the Feeder Festival. She learned about the wild plants of food and recovery from her mother and grandmother, but only after she promised, at a ceremony held when she was five years old, and not to use knowledge to harm. Flag can only be passed among women, so it is not allowed to share with her only child, son.
For a picnic and thigh to Flagliasco, a village with a watchdog in the sixteenth century, it shows me wild celery, and several types of dandelions, and gypsy are food with lush spinch leaves. It shows me how to discover toxic plants and explain how Rosehips is a natural rose.
Strawberry tree leaves are good for stomach, bladder and blood circulation problems, while wax leaves CacCialepre (Reichardia Picroides)) Good in salad or cooked in Rafioli. Laura runs walking feed throughout the yearAnd providing custom reservations.
Once again in the city, he took a look at what all the British left behind: a tennis club directly from Agatha Christie, who still flourishes under eight British owner Joe Scordis; The Anglican Church, does not flourish. And the English Language Library, which he headed on Wednesday afternoon and Friday by another British in the long run, Jacqueline Rosadoni.
But for more of what visitors today might enjoy, I went to the water, as I met Fisher Stefano Ruceio in the city’s marina. He offers tours (from 30 euros, ask in the tourist office) from the Gulf and GalenaraThe visible rock island from all villages of the mainland. The public cannot land there yet, but in 2020 the authorities intervened to stop the Russian few to buy them, and there are plans to open a museum and some Roman ruins as a tourist attraction. Currently, it is a useful shelter of cold breezes: Stefano wears his boat, L’orizzone, on the island, and even in the low season, it is sufficiently warm to decline.
When it is not entertaining for tourists, Stefano supplies fish to the best restaurants, so he knows what this coast can offer. We are entering in my custodian TrumptLong, sensitive, yellow zucchini.
After that, I go to Carlo Levi Gallery (Saturday, from 3 pm to 6 pm, for free), after the man only knew about his books and the left policy. He was a regular visitor to Alassio until his death in 1975, and his paintings include carbure trees after decline and expressive photography. There are also pamphlets, posters and artifacts of his active life.
A century ago, Alassio was around the mixed spouses, garden parties, and the new year of the various upper dalrymples and Al -Hananbour. The times have changed, but it has the city. The sun still rises in the spring and autumn, and with picturesque trips instead of tennis championship English Fall everywhere again.
Where do you stay?
On the edge of the old city, CASA d’Artista (Mix from 150 euros B&B) The scenery of the sea and the paintings conducted by the mother of the owner, the artist Maria Teresa Brisa, everywhere, including the breakfast room lined with the book.
To boast, Villa Della Al -Arisha (Marital from 310 euros euros) is owned by many wealthy British families and sits amid a beautiful restoration Vegetable gardens It turned by Tennis Founder Daniel Hanbury in the twenties of the twentieth century. The garden contains one of the largest Western collections in Italy, and the spring sees a “waterfall” in a full glory.
Where do you eat?
Osteria I Matetti It looks modest, but inside it is exposed to a loud car from the happy shepherds. The walls are lined with old school photos: every local over a certain age can find itself somewhere. Young employees rush to deliver pasta panels to office workers. Besto comes with JacketLarge flat noodles tubes, although I tend to green as well Tagliolini with Bottarga. Reservation is necessary, but be aware that the local headquarters of the Inter Milan fans, who are watching on a large screen canceled from the ceiling on the days of the match.
ZulaBakery and café of the luxurious town, carrying the hook and the gelato, as well as Baki de AlacioDistinguished hazelnut biscuits with chocolate cream. surplus It is the Restaurant of Villa Dela Bergo, which achieved the Michelin star. It offers a wonderful vegetation menu with peanuts and broccoli and Shinoto Foam, green gas above the cooked tomatoes at only 63 ° C, and delicate sweet Trumpt With truffles.
Mostly lunch in La Vigna, in the hills north of the city, can mean organic wine from its near generosity, beginners Panisa Fresh fried birds with lemon-and fresh fried grains, then one of them Pinzimonio – Dived olive oil with pesto and anchovy – with fresh vegetables in the area: raw pulsed onions, fennel, branches, carrots, celery and boiled wax potatoes.
The journey was provided by the town of Alasio and Alasio Marina
