On the main floor of the house is the holiday apartment, which enjoys a wonderfully cool temperature, even in summer, due to the thick stone walls. As you enter the apartment, you will find yourself in the kitchen, from where the rest of the apartment radiates outwards, first into the main living area, with its sofa and TV, then into the dining area with its good sized dining table. At the far end of this room is the sleeping area. The apartment is finished in a combination of plaster and natural stone, imparting a very homely and cosy atmosphere, which the cast iron oven in the living area serves to emphasise. At the front of the house is a large swimming-pool - ideal for taking a cooling, refreshing dip, or simply for letting off some steam.The pool is shared with the owners of the apartment.

This municipality is formed of two towns on the sunny slopes of the San Pietro Valley. Dominating the lower town is the parish church, one of the most important in the area (the christening font dates from the eleventh century). All that is left of the original late mediaeval building is the bell tower. It is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and was reconstructed in Baroque style in the second half of the eighteenth century. The parvis is paved with pebbles and it was surrounded by a wall in 1564 as a defence against Saracen invasions. The interior preserves a painting of the martyrdom of San Giovanni Battista attributed to Giovanni Battista Paggi and a fine seventeenth-century marble pulpit.
Along the road to Diano San Pietro there are two buildings that were once used for control and defence of the valley: the square "Camandone" barracks building and the "Molino Arduino", a fortified mill.







Just outside the town, when you have crossed the bridge over the Rio San Pietro, you will come to the district of Colla, where you can admire the recently-restored sanctuary of the Madonna della Neve. In the church of the Natività di Maria in Borganzo, you can see a fine poliptych by Antonio Brea: the Madonna della Consolazione (1518). There is a very old humpback bridge over the San Pietro at Roncagli. At one time, the valley was full of mills producing Taggia olive oil. Besides olive-oil production, the local economy is based on the cultivation of vegetables, fruit and basil, which is the main ingredient of the typical local liqueur. Among the many local summer festivals, the most famous is the one dedicated to a pasta dish called "trenette al pesto", which is accompanied by a classic Ligurian wine called Pigato.

Pool shared with owners