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INFORMATION ABOUT DIANO MARINA:
Link: http://www.inliguria.com/riviera_dei_fiori/dianomarina/index.asp
Link: City of Diano Marina
Link: Diano Marina Guide
The city of Diano Marina:
Located just east of Imperia, Diano Marina is a mecca for shoppers, tourists and sunseekers. Excellent facilities with a wide selection of interesting shops and cafes within a pleasant pedestrian mall and the surrounding area. Prices are reasonable. Frequent street markets. Good beaches and plenty for the kids to do.History tells us that right in the plane of Dianese Gulf, was the passage of the most important Roman road to France and Provence, the Via Julia Augusta, built in year 13 B.C. under the Roman Emperor Ottaviano Augustus.
After the earthquake in 1887, Diano Marina was rebuilt as a modern town; many discoveries of iron age, Roman, and medieval, was found. In the Town Hall we can admire the “dolia”, big terracotta jars used to transport wine, by sea, from Spain to Italy; they were found together with the rests of a Roman ship, sunk in the first century A.D. a few kms. away from the coast of Diano Marina.
Villa Ardissone, the residence known as “Palazzo del Parco”, hosts the Civic Museum (with many archaeological discoveries and historical memories of Andrea Rossi, born in Diano Marina and pilot of the ship expedition: “Mille”, the thousand soldiers of Giuseppe Garibaldi), the Civic Library and a room for exhibitors.
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