From the coast to the mountains in Liguria

Three hundred kilometers of coast are resolved in four hundred and forty if you continue along gulfs, ravines and bends from Marinella di Sarzana to Levante, up to the Balzi Rossi to the west, however, there is a territorial difference between the coast to the east and the one to the west (but here it is says east and west): the first is flat only in two short stretches, at the mouth of the Magra and on the estuary of the Entella river , near Chiavari, and is impervious and steep especially between Sestri Levante and the Cinque Terre , with the three gulfs of Poets , from Tigullio and from Paradise .

To the west, on the other hand, it sometimes widens into large inlets and then into wide sandy or pebble beaches around the mouths of the rivers, despite being practically vertical between Noli and Finale Ligure . The islands are small and few and those of Palmaria , Tino and Tinetto , to the east, are located in front of the Gulf of La Spezia. To the west the island of Bergeggi makes Savona and Noli and the island of Gallinara in front of Albenga .

The seabed of Liguria does not have a continental base and therefore the sea quickly reaches the depth of 2500 from Genoa towards the Balearics.

The Ligurian mountains

The whole hinterland is made up of hills and mountains which are the lowest part of the Alps and the Apennines, however, to see them rise from the sea it would seem that they are much higher than they actually are. The highest are part of the Ligurian Alps but they are not all the same: along the French border the Saccarello mountain (2200 meters) and between Val Nervia and Val Roia the Toraggio (1973 meters) and Pietravecchia (2038 meters) mountains, in the Savona area the Alps Ligurians reach 1708 meters with Mount Galero, in Genovesato the 1799 meters with Mount Maggiorasca and in Spezzino the 1640 meters of Mount Gòttero.

Liguria includes large stretches of the valleys on the Po side because the Alpine-Apennine chain runs through most of the region and the mountains often come very close to the sea (behind Arenzano, it reaches the maximum limit of just five kilometers), however, for good reason historical, a couple of Ligurian valleys belong to Piedmont. The Colle di Santa Libera , near the Cadibona hill , at 441 meters above sea level, is the lowest pass in the Apennines (at least up to Catanzaro).