People in such places as Calenzana, Pigna, Cateri and Corbara are bucking the rural desertification trend by opening up their workshops so that people can buy their handmade cheeses, charcuterie, ceramics, glassware, olive oil, ...
La Pigna, the historic center of San Remo dates back about a thousand years and still maintains a lot of its unique character. Pigna means pine cone; the local streets curl around the little hill like the scales of a pine cone. ...
Actual resting on a vacation... who knew? :) After Milan came Ventimiglia, in far NW coastal Italy only 30 mins from France. Here we had lunch with the second installment of Mel's fam, and then got driven to her nona's village, Pigna, ...
