The ligurian extreme west end, so-called "Riviera dei Fiori", is not only the sea, beautiful and tepid even in the winter, or the coast with its nightclubs, theaters, festivals, casinos.......
In fact, a few kilometers in the inland are enough to discover valleys crossing one another, now sweet now steep slopes, fresh air, scented of grass and woods, all the fascination of an ancient world arrived up to now as for a miracle.
So you will see crops bounded by old dry stone walls, olive trees and vines; and behind the next turn, a medieval village clinging to the mountain slope, its old stone houses leaning to each other, cobbled alleys called "carugi", bell towers of little churches, old oil mills, crumbling castles and guard towers.
It is an ideal place for walks in the country and for bicycle rides, for the peaceful ones with the family as for the true "biker's" hardest ones. And after the strain, is there anything better than taste Ligurian cooking, maybe under a scented pergola in some typical "trattoria"..... It is a poor cuisine, which exalts all products of the land and combine them with ancient wisdom; it owes much of its taste to spontaneally growing aromatic herbs like thyme, rosemary, marjoram, laurel, oregano, and to the world famous basil of "pesto". This is the secret of inimitables dishes like the "torta verde" (most villages have a special recipe for it, with different ingredients as potatoes, beet greens, courgettes, pumpkin, artichokes....); or again like the Apricale's "barbajuai", sort of fried ravioli stuffed with rice, cottage cheese, herbs and courgettes; and more, the stuffed vegetables, the home made ravioli, the rabbit cooked "alla ligure" with the small but very tasteful olives called "Taggiasca", growing only in this area, and the "brandacujun", typical course made of dried salt cod, potatoes, olives and capers.
All this with the seasoning of the superb "extra virgin DOP" olive oil and accompanied by the "Rossese di Dolceacqua", a full bodied red wine, or by the whites "Vermentino" and "Pigato"

MUSICAL AND SPORTING EVENTS

All the year round, there are a lot of events you could take part staying in Ventimiglia.

Informations on events in Monaco:
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