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Oltre alla città di Bussana Vecchia ci sono tonnellate di cose da fare in questo settore: molti ottimi ristoranti, le spiagge e le vicine cittadine, le città più grandi Sanremo e Imperia (accessibile tramite il 'pista ciclabile'), escursioni a Mentone , Monaco, Nizza e Cannes, fabbriche di olio di oliva Taggiasca produttori di olio di fama mondiale, facili ma anche faticose escursioni di un giorno nelle Alpi circostanti (altitudine fino a 2100 m).
Si possono trovare maggiori dettagli e le mappe nella nicchia in soggiorno.
Ecco qualche proposte che sono basate sulle nostre esperienze totalmente non imparziale. Dove disponibile ho fornito i link ad altri siti di recensioni.
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Escursioni a piedi Liguria (traduzione in costruzione)
Tennis: Tennis club Arma ha una manciata di campi in terra rossa nei pressi del porto di Arma di Taggia. È possibile affittare le campi di ora in ora, in anticipo. Dopo una partita a tennis, potrete fare un tuffo in mare e di pranzare in uno dei tanti ristoranti della zona.
Scubadiving: Ci sono centri di Arma Arma (fine del porticciolo), Marina di Aragai (grande yacht zona 5 km a est di Arma) e di Sanremo. Ci sono diverse aree poco profonde vicino alla riva che hanno vegetazione qualità bella e pesce e un paio di navi ben conservati da seconda guerra mondiale. Forniscono anche 5 giorni PADI o corsi di formazione equivalente.
Towns (traduzione in costruzione)
- Taggia
The town of Taggia was built in medieval days and large parts of this old town haven't changed a bit. Here you will still find some elder ladies selecting flowers or ferns on the sidewalks and prepare them for shipment (often via the mega-auction in Aalsmeer, Netherlands) all over the globe. The miniscule young ferns arrive in large trucks from Holland and grow in the many greenhouses (Casse) in this area until they are mature. After careful selection in towns like Taggia they are shipped back to Holland to be combined with roses from Holland but also from Africa or Israel for air transport to the USA.
The main square in the
center of town is from the late 19th century, with couple of decent bars to take an aperitivo (Spritz) in the afternoon. The church is a good example of late Baroque painting with lots of fake marble and pillars.
A must-see in Taggia is its original Roman bridge (6th or 7th century).When you stand on this long bridge over the Argentina river you can envision how this bridge must have carried pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages for well over one thousand years between the main towns of Genova and Nice. Several years ago, the river Argentina carrioed so much water from the mountains that it absorbed several key modern bridges between Taggia and its port Arma di Taggia. The only bridge that stayed completely unaffected ... was this old Roman bridge.
Every year at end February there's a major event in Taggia (San Benedetto) when they commemorate the war between the Duke of Savoy and the Republic of Genova which was fought here in 1625. The town is decorated with fresh Mimosa and hundreds of local volunteers reenact the battle in traditional costumes with several charges over a period of two days and loud musket and canon fire. Not to be missed.
The main railway line along the coast was moved about 2 km inland, so the railway station now lies on the South side of Taggia.
- Arma di Taggia
Arma di Taggia used to be the port of Taggia. It now is a friendly tourist town with a superb beach area. It is one of the very few towns along the Italian Rivièra that does not have the main Via Aurelia road or a railway track along the beach. It has a pedestrian area and a 'lover's lane' along the beach line with cafe's and restaurants. The town is one of the key holiday locations for italians from the Torino and Milano areas. The majority of all apartments and hotels are booked one year in advance which leaves very little space for other foreign tourists. Many apartments are owned by italians from the North. In winter they are used by the grandparents to enjoy the sunny micro-climate of the area; the whole family gathers there for the public holidays, and parents and children use the apartment for long weekends with friends. In summer, the fathers stay at their home town to work while the mothers and children spend more than two months' summer vacation in the apartment. On Friday afternoons and Sunday evenings during summer the Autostrada is often packed with traffic from and to the North.
Altogether, these italian tourists create a very 'local' atmosphere
in Arma so, unlike along the French Rivièra, a significantly smaller risk to meet countrymen for other foreigners.
WIth one exception (the former Victoria hotel) the beach area of Arma is not lined with the standard 10+ floor concrete apartments that
spoil the beaches virtually everywhere else in the world, from Benidorm to Miami and from Australia's Gold Coast to Viña del Mar in Chili. Luckily, the township of Arma realized the uniqueness of their beach already in the 1980's and have blocked construction of large apartment buildings along the coast (you will find these type of buildings more inland).
Every Monday morning from 9 am to 1 pm there's an open market in the center of town which is primarily aimed at local buyers rather than tourists.
A must-see event every year are the massive fireworks display
in Arma on the last Sunday of July. The fireworks are done in celebration of Saint Erasmo. A public mass is held on the beach in the morning. The statue of the saint is taken from his church near the beach and is brought in procession to the beach where it boards a local fishing boat to bless the sea and sailors. The fireworks start after sunset around 10:30 pm. At first, the sea is covered with thousands of small paper candle boats. A magnificent display of fireworks-art follows, with new fireworks creations every year. Having enjoyed the world-famous Macy's fireworks in NYC multiple times I dare to state that the one in Arma is superior.