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On my site dedicated to the Italian Riviera… here’s the lede to part two of this multi-part reportage, to read the whole story click the link below…
By the time you curl down from Monte Bignone to the castle-crowned village of Perinaldo, perched at a 1,800 feet above the Nervia Valley, you might well feel dizzy.
On the upside, you will almost certainly understand why, in the blood-soaked Middle Ages, the Ligurians retreated to places like Perinaldo: the isolation is total, the views of approaching enemies are unobstructed, and there is free building material to boot. Everything is stone.
British travelers of the mid-1700s doing the Grand Tour in Italy “discovered” Italian Riviera redoubts such as Perinaldo, dubbing them “Rock Villages,” largely because they are hewn out of the mountainsides and blend into them.
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