Italian Riviera and Piemonte Book

	Introducing
01	Introduction	1
	A Guide to the Guide	3
02	History	7
03	Art and Architecture	19
04	Italian Culture	25
05	Tales of Tenacity	31
06	Food and Drink	45
	The Guide
07	Travel	57
08	Practical A-Z	65
09	Riviera di Ponente	77
	The Riviera dei Fiori: Ventimiglia to Bordighera	80
	Ventimiglia	80
	Bordighera	86
	San Remo	91
	The Riviera degli Olivi	99
	Imperia	100
	The Riviera delle Palme	108
	Albenga	110
	Toirano, Loano and Pietra Ligure	115
	Up The Coast: Finale Ligure to Savona	120
	Savona	124
	On to Genoa	129
10	Genoa	133
	History	142
	Genoa's West End	148
	Stazione Principle, Palazzo del Principe and the Lanterna	148
	Via Balbi to Via Garibaldi	148
	19th-century Genoa	152
	Into the Old City	153
	The Porto Antico	158
	Behind Genoa: Hills, Walls and a Boneyard	159
	West of Genoa: to Pegli and Voltri	160
	Eastern Genoa to Nervi	162
	Genoa's Entroterra	163
11	Riviera di Levante	165
	The Gulf of Paradise	168
	The Promontory of Portofino	172
	The Golfo del Tigullio: Santa Margherita, Portofino and Rapallo	172
	Chiavari, Lavagna and Sestri Levante	177
	The Val di Vara	181
	The Coast from Sestri Levante to La Spezia	182
	The Cinque Terre	183
	La Spezia and Portovenere	188
	The Gulf of Poets and the Val di Magra	191
12	Piemonte	197
	West of Turin: The 'Olympic Mountains'	199
	Southwest Piemonte: the Marquisate of Saluzzo	207
	Southeast Piemonte: Le Langhe and Monferrato	217
	Piemonte's Far Southeastern Corner	231
	Northeast of Turin: Vercelli, Novara and Rice	235
	Lake Maggiore	239
	From the South: Arona to Baveno	240
	Verbania and Maggiore's Northwest Shore	244
	North of the Lakes: the Lower Ossola Valleys	247
	Domodossola and the Upper Ossola Valleys	250
	Lake Orta	253
	West of Lake Orta: Varallo and Biella	258
	North of Turin: Valli di Lanzo and the Canavese	263
13	Turin	269
	Turin's Centre: Along Via Roma	280
	Piazza Castello: the Royal Command Centre	283
	The Duomo and the Cappella della Sacra Sindone	284
	West of Piazza Castello: the Quadrilatero Romano	287
	The Mole Antonelliana and National Cinema Museum	288
	Towards the River: Down Via Po	289
	On the Right Bank: the Gran Madre di Dio and Villa della Regina	289
	South along the Po: the Parco del Valentino	290
	The East End: Piazza Solferino, the Citadella and Museo Pietro Micca	291
	Lingotto and the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Angelli	292
	Basilica di Superga	293
	Chieri and Martini	294
	Around Turin: a Garland of Pleasure Domes	294
14	Valle d'Aosta	297
	The Eastern Valleys	300
	Aosta: the 'Rome of the Alps'	305
	The Western Valleys	311
	Reference
	Language	316
	Glossary	319
	Chronology	321
	Further Reading	323
	Index	324
	Maps
	Italian Rivera and Piemonte
	Chapter Divisions	4
	Italian Village Model	42
	Riviera di Ponente	78
	Riviera dei Fiori and Riviera degli Olivi	81
	Imperia to Albenga	101
	Albenga to Savona	111
	Savona to Genoa	126
	Genoa	134
	Genoa's Entroterra	163
	Rivera di Levante	166
	Genoa to Sestri Levante	169
	Sestri Levante to La Spezia	183
	Piemonte	198
	South of Turin	200
	Asti	224
	Lakes Orta and Maggiore	239
	Varallo, Biella, Valli di Lanzo and the Canavese	259
	Turin	270
	Valle d'Aosta	298
	Aosta	306
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