Arrival in Genoa and meeting with the guide. Panoramic coach tour to discover the main attractions of the city, a Maritime Republic with Pisa, Venice and Amalfi. Piazza de Ferrari with its imposing fountain built with a single piece of marble, the Doge's Palace returned to its former glory after renovation and often the site of important exhibitions and the famous Carlo Felice Theatre. After typical lunch in a restaurant wwalking tour of Via Garibaldi, called Strada Nuova with its historical palaces full of stuccoes and precious frescoes. Visit to Palazzo Bianco, dating back to the 18th century, it shows many paintings by Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dick, Murillo. Transfer to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
After breakfast transfer to Santa Margherita Ligure, elegant town on the Riviera di Levante. Meeting with the guide and brief visit before boarding the ferry for Portofino. The marina hosted the world's most expensive yachts and is a destination for the most exclusive tourists. Free time and boat tour to San Fruttuoso, a characteristic and isolated inlet with the Abbey. The Mediterranean scrub of the Monte di Portofino park is another of the area's outstanding features: pines and olive trees, reaching as far as the sea, alternate with shrubs such as broom, thyme, heather, myrtle, saxifrage and strawberry trees. The boat tour ends in Camogli, a romantic seaside village characterised by tall houses painted in bright colours. Free lunch during the excursion. At the end transfer to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Levanto and Monterosso, the main historic village of the Cinque Terre. Among alleys and picturesque shops, you can admire the church of San Giovanni and the seventeenth-century oratory of the Confraternita dei Neri. Free time for lunch and the ferry boat tour to Vernazza, Manarola and then La Spezia sailing along the coast in front of Portovenere.
Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Toirano for a visit to the most beautiful underground complex in Liguria. Fifteen rooms sculpted and shaped over the millennia by nature, for 1280 metres, where speleological wonders and archaeological riches offer unique emotions. Transfer to Cervo, splendid town in western Liguria, which over the years that preserved its original medieval origin. Lunch in a restaurant and in the afternoon, visit to the old town centre. No modern buildings or paved roads, but narrow cobbled alleys that do not allow cars to pass. Back to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Breakfast at the hotel and departure for Pegli to visit Villa Durazzo Pallavicini: a park built at the end of the 18th century as a botanical garden and recently restored. Original for its highly spectacular scenery and its "theatrical" itinerary: a prologue and three acts for a journey in which the visitor is led into a fairy-tale world, among woods, lakes, waterfalls, temples, pagodas and suggestive caves. Transfer to the city center of Genoa visit and lunch, followed by a visit to the Villetta Di Negro park, a panoramic and scenic green oasis and a botanical garden of about 2 hectares. A few steps away the famous Strada Nuova where the secret garden of Palazzo Lomellino is hidden. An underground "passageway" that has preserved the ancient beauty of the 18th-century garden where the nobles organised parties and entertained illustrious guests, but where rich commercial contracts were also signed with which the owners managed to further increase their already enormous wealth. Fountains, nymphaea, a tower and two caves.