My wife was out at the market today – which is held every Wednesday morning in Levanto, if you are interested – and bumped into some friendly real estate agents that we know. Having not seen them in a while, they chit-chatted about this and that, commenting on the never-ending […]
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Here in our new village of Le Ghiare outside of Levanto (and you can’t get more village-like than this, having a population of less than 100) there is still something that belongs to a very old tradition: the village olive press. It’s on the ground floor of the home that […]
Cinque Terre hiking has been so long synonymous with the Via Dell’Amore, the famous walk from Riomaggiore to Manarola along a paved trail that hugs the cliffs and coastline, that when it was closed at the end of last season because of an incident involving falling rocks and some very […]
With the victory today of Vincenzo Nibali in the Giro d’Italia (the Tour de France of Italy), it seems fitting to offer a few notes about biking Levanto and the areas around Levanto. In many ways, Levanto is not your ideal biking locale, at least not unless you consider […]
As anyone in Italy over the past months knows, the weather has been really awful, like the Dr. Seuss book says: The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. And so two of the biggest […]
Liguria is, more than anything else, a long thin coastal stretch with mountains at its shoulders, and its entire complex of history, culture, and society is tied up to the sea and these geographical factors. And so the winds of Liguria are of great importance. There’s an easterly wind howling […]
Erica and I recently bought our first house, which was a surprise to us more than anyone, for when we made the decision to move permanently to the Cinque Terre area and put down roots in Levanto, we always figured that buying a house would be the last thing to […]
Levanto is a wonderful town for families … if it weren’t, my wife and I wouldn’t have uprooted our family from Parma to move here permanently. But more importantly, Levanto is a wonderful destination for families. It has a lot to offer. Clean water with beaches that slope gently into […]
As of about a year, the City of Levanto, resident population ca. 5,500, has undertaken an experiment in becoming a zero waste municipality. This is the mark of serious change, not to mention an example for the future, because if you can get Levanto to do this, then anyone can […]
The wonderful lemon festival that takes place every year in Monterosso in the Cinque Terre has been pushed back a week due to bad weather, which is no surprise, because the weather has been lousy all spring. Scheduled for yesterday, the new date is Sunday May 26th. It has been […]