Perched on the hill of the Orera, the “Saracen” village is a harmonious set of four different villages (Poggio, Piazza, Roccaro, Crosa), characterized by pink stone buildings, set in a rock and sea panorama, connected by the narrow alleyways and brick roads once destined for mules and wagons.

Houses lying on each other, in a harmonious volume and mass disorder, look like a single articulated home, rising spontaneous from the rock.

“The altarpiece is the sight that opens at the outlet, unexpectedly to tear a cry”

Thus, in his post to Verezzi, poet Camillo Sbarbaro describes this wonderful and lonely village, where alongside the caper and the carob, the theatre plant also grew luxuriant.

Almost excavated, sluggish alleyways, steep and narrow climbs, arch underpasses enrich by flower pots tell the defensive origin of human settlements.

At these boroughs, where the local pink stone alternates with white terraces, exposed gardens, vegetation of Mediterranean maquis, the time seems to have stopped. The very morphology of the territory, greatly limiting the possibility of automotive circulation, contributes to increasing the fairy-tale aspect of this corner of Liguria.

The most striking aspect in Verezzi is however the unmistakable view of the Ligurian coast that can be enjoyed by each of the four neighbourhoods, where truly, immersed in the scents of Mediterranean vegetation, it seems to be suspended between sky and sea. Verezzi’s renowned beauty and architectural peculiarities were in 2008 included in the Clubs of the Most Beautiful Villages of Italy and then in the Pearls of Liguria, and in 2009 even the dedication of a national stamp in the tourist series issued in 3,600,000 copies on July 10.