Recco

If Recco were the kingdom of gastronomy, the "Focaccia col formaggio" would the queen and the "Trofiette al pesto" the princess.
But Recco is also famous for the true festival of the fireworks known as the "Sagra del fuoco" held the 8th of September, Santa Margherita Ligure is famous for its prawn, for its boutiques and for its small restaurants and cafès in fashion, for its Winter theater performances and for its beautifull mansion, as Villa Durazzo.
A brief stay and you will be able to feel at home and to call this little town as the inhabitants do: simply "Santa".
One more jump: and you will reach Rapallo, with its old castle surronded by the sea that once had to defend the town from pirate invasion and where nowadays original art exibitions are held.
Early in Jyuly the castle bursts into flames under a ring of fireworks: it is the highest point of the festivity in honour of the Holy Virgin ogf Montallegro, whose shrine has been built on a hill bearing the same name amd that can be reached by the only funicolar in Ligury.
The shrine's walls still preserve many precious "ex-voto".
From Rapallo, where once a year the best authoress is awarded a prize and which houses the only italian museum dedicated to the lacework, very little is needed to ttravel back in the time of the Iron Age.
How?
Going to Zoagli in search of the rests of one of the eight prehistoric fortifications called "castellari" brought up to light in Ligury.
Surely you will have enough time to discover the reality of the looms from which precious silk cloth and velvet are born.
If you want to stay at middle-point between past and present, you must walk among the foot path that follows the cliffs straight down the sea.
Let you ravish by a sunset!
Last advice.
After getting acquainted with a sightseeing of the coast, its beaches, its sea and its villages, don't neglet the rugged but nevertheless charming land lying behind them.