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With mountains to hand there is
plenty of walking immediately available. Even those seriously disinterested
in walking and things biological may warm to both walking and the wildlife
- which is fascinating. When was the last time that you saw a navy blue
butterfly with red spots or an almost bright orange deer? The meadows
at the top of the mountains seem as though they are straight from ''Heidi''
or ''Room with a View'' or both, abundant with flowers and, in some instances,
heavy with their perfume.
Click here for
some photographs of butterflies, some very rare, that can be seen in the
vicinity, here
for some of the plants and flowers, and here
for a gallery of various images from a year in the Lunigiana.
For those who like the sea, this is readily accessible whether it is the
Lunigianan beaches or in other directions. From Marinella southwards it
is sand and shallow beaches, whilst at Lerici (pictures here)
and the Gulf of Poets (where Shelley drowned, Byron swam and D. H. Lawrence
meditated on his next book), it is rocky. A little bit further on from
Lerici can be found the Cinque
Terre, five famous fishing villages, picturesque in the extreme. It
is possible to take a boat from Lerici to the Cinque Terre to really maximise
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