Maritimes Erbe Europas – Ligurien

About the Film

In this film we discover the more than 300 km long coastline Liguria. It is the region of sailing ships, yachts and rowing boats – this tradition connects the people and the sea here.

On the west side, the Ponente, the coast stretches from San Remo, Imperia and Finale Ligure, via the old port city of Genoa to the east side, the Levante, where the villages are located on the steep slopes of the Cinque Terre, and ends at the Gulf of La Spezia.  We meet an old Leudo, the name given to the transport sailing ships that populated the sandy beaches of Liguria’s east coast until the end of the 1960s. In Sestri Levante, between Genoa and the Cinque Terre, an association looks after one of the last surviving ships. It used to transport barrels of wine, cheese or sand from the island of Elba to the mainland. In La Spezia, the journey continues to a forbidden island, the Isola del Tino. The region is a restricted military area, which is why the island is off-limits. This has turned Tino into a natural nature reserve. In the village of Cadimare, near La Spezia, Stefano Faggioni is the third generation of his family to live and work as a ship designer. He restores and designs yachts.  On the west coast, the Ponente, the city of Imperia is home to Elena Fontanesi, a young marine biologist who works with her organization “Delfini del Ponente” for the bottlenose dolphins that live here in large numbers.

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