La spezia

It is a well known fact that to know a city inside out, a stroll on foot brings the most satisfaction. Our hurried lifestyle nowadays, can always have an improved quality by giving ourselves time to walk around a place, purely to enjoy the visual pleasures.

This goes for La Spezia too, it should be discovered without haste leaving from the jetty where the ferries are moored, called “Molo Italia”. Go through the exotic Public Gardens which are the pride of the city for their careful upkeep and flourishing flora. Then along Viale Diaz to the crossroad with Via Chiodo with its airy shaded arcades.
Straight across is Via Prione, a lively pedestrian street in the heart of the old town. The Civico Theatre designed by Franco Oliva comes up on your left symbolising the elegant thirties. A little way on where the street narrows, below the length of wall that dates back to the beginning
of the seventeenth century, what was once one of the entrances to La Spezia can be seen. This was in fact the entrance from the Naval Base to the walled city.