La Spezia

... The Port of La Spezia, that is all the Gulf, is one of the more wonderful things that are in Italy... going back from Portovenere towards the bottom of the gulf, a gulf is found that the Chestnut is called; then one heads of earth, where there is a fort; then, a gulf, that it is the port of Varignano, wonderful... Chearles De Montesquieu (Travel in Italy 1728)

Many poets and writers, in the course of the history, are remained bewitch to you from the beauty of the places and the atmospheres that the Gulf of La Spezia unavoidablly provokes. This is the reason for which it has been renamed the "Gulf of the Poets": Dante, Byron, Montesquieu, Shelley, Wagner, Of Notice, Hemingway, Mounts them, Soldiers is only some of the masters who have left testimony of the fascination inspired from these territories. As in an embrace the Gulf is delimited from Portovenere and Lerici, antichi dense villages of history and suggestion, today delicious their tourist goals that use however original carisma.
To the inside of the insenatura, covering the coast, charming countries like the bay of Thanks are met equally and from the opposite side Saint Terenzo and Tellaro.