Cinque Terre and sorroundings

Emanuele Albano, the man who looked for mussels and found the "Muscoli"

Recently, CNN’s “Searching for Italy” by Stanley Tucci visited the mussels Farms in the la Spezia Bay of Poets, and tried the delicious seafood with local wine. In La Spezia, mussels are called “Muscoli,”; a local word for the Italian “Cozze”. The story of the many mussels plants in the La Spezia seascape is one …

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Kayak in La Spezia and its poetic bay.

Kayaking in La Spezia Bay is appreciated by more visitors who take some time to escape the often cluttered Cinque Terre trains and boats and wish to explore places away from the crowd. The so-told Bay of the Poets is a very charming, mostly easy-to-stroll body of water, suitable for kayakers at their first experience and those trained …

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