Monterosso is a typical Ligurian village nestled between the sea and the mountains. Like the other villages of the Cinque Terre, it is striking for its position in full nature, surrounded by blue and green, with its colored houses it almost seems to have stopped time.

It is divided into the historic center, with its characteristic “carugi”, its splendid churches and its large square (the main scene of Monterossina life) and the area along the seafront called “Fegina”, a magnificent promenade that leads from the town towards the West with the “Punta del Mesco” as a frame.

A small village but open to the sea and the four winds, where you never get tired of wandering through the typical streets.

To visit the fourteenth-century church of San Giovanni Battista, in front of which stood the medieval Palazzo del Podestà, of which some traces remain. Of great importance, on the hill of the Cappuccini, the Fieschi castle and the monastery whose church dedicated to San Francesco, contains works of art of inestimable value, including paintings attributed to Van Dick, Cambiaso, Piola and Guido Reni.

In Fegina: Villa Montale, where the Nobel Prize for Literature stayed, and the Giant, an imposing statue in reinforced concrete built at the beginning of the 20th century which originally supported a shell-shaped terrace on its shoulders.