Campiglia and Tramonti. The Open Sea

But the La Spezia council district has another surprise in store: this is the view going beyond the vertiginous landscape marked by the work of man up and over the Campiglia and Tramonti hilltops towards the open sea between Porto Venere and Cinque Terre.
It is a landscape of extremes, where the exhausting work on the land and especially wine growing has changed the course of the natural vegetation which, shows up every now and then, from the cliff plunging headlong down to the rocks, marked by paths and tracks once used mainly for cultivating the land and now for inspiring paths to walk along.
It is said that the traces of our forefathers still haunt this region, from the menhirs with their uncertain age, perhaps megalithic monuments from the V millennium B.C., to the slabs and the Roman place-names – Albana for example – and the impressive vestiges of the Middle Ages. At Campiglia, isolated and separated from St. Catherine’s church, there is a watermill now motionless, very similar to the ones on the castle square at Porto Venere, still standing guard over this landscape with its intensive nature full of history.