After a very relaxing stay with Joan and Gene Cervelli at their Lake Como villa, we drove south. Our destination was Camp Darby, a U.S. Army base near Pisa. To get a taste of the Cinqueterra, we headed to the peninsula city of Portovenere. Narrow, pastel painted houses loom upward from the port just below a castle ruin and a black and white marble church out on the point. A doorway above the crashing waves leads to the "Grotto Byron" where it is said Lord Byron dove into the sea and swam to the isle of Lerici.
Chess anyone? A life size game of chess in black and white marble was set up on the asphalt path leading to the point. It wouldn't fit in our suitcase!
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