Day Trip-Albenga, Liguria
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
This photo was taken in the Roman Baths. The religious mosaic is from the fifth century.
These towers from the 14th Century are well preserved and give a good idea of what the city looked like when Albenga was a free city–state.
A local specialty is farinata, a tasty flat bread made of garbanzo bean flour and baked at very high temperatures in wood ovens. That is in fact what we had for lunch.
Albenga is on the Riveria di Ponente between Genova and the French border. The city was a sea port during the Roman Empire, and there is a naval museum showing the cargo of a Roman ship (1st Century B.C.) that sank about a mile off shore.
Next—Piedmont.
