🫒Olio Riviera Ligure DOP

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  Taggia

  Province: Imperia · 40 m

  The Argentina valley's medieval seat above the Riviera dei Fiori, the town that gave its name to the Taggiasca olive grown across western Liguria.

Inside the production zone

Towns of ours that the Olio Riviera Ligure DOP zone covers, read from the denomination’s own published rules. Lying inside a zone is a smaller claim than being the place people mean when they say the name, which is why these sit apart from the ones above.

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  Andora

  Province: Savona · 10 m

  A Riviera town with two faces, two kilometers of sandy beach on the Aurelia and a ruined twelfth-century castle hidden on a hill behind it.

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  Apricale

  Province: Imperia · 273 m

  A medieval hill village in the Nervia Valley, named for the Latin apricus, sunny, with a tenth-century castle shaped like a lizard on the rock.

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  Arenzano

  Province: Genova · 12 m

  A coastal town twenty kilometers west of Genova where two-thirds of the territory climbs into the Parco del Beigua and peaks above a thousand meters.

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  Badalucco

  Province: Imperia · 179 m

  A medieval village wrapped in a bend of the Argentina torrent, with murals on its caruggi and a Slow Food bean on its terraces.

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  Bogliasco

  Province: Genova · 5 m

  A fishing village on the Riviera di Levante just east of Genoa, built around a 13th-century stone bridge over the Bogliasco torrent and a tight grid of pastel-coloured houses opening onto a pebble cove.

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  Borgio Verezzi

  Province: Savona · 30 m

  Two villages joined under one comune in 1933: Borgio on the coast below, Verezzi on the pink-stone hill above.

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  Camogli

  Province: Genova · 32 m

  A fishing village on the Golfo Paradiso whose nineteenth-century fleet of a thousand white sails made it Italy's third maritime power in the Mediterranean.

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  Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena

  Province: Savona · 420 m

  A stone village of 130 residents at 420 meters, built into the southern foot of a 1,142-meter limestone outcrop.

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  Celle Ligure

  Province: Savona · 5 m

  A Riviera di Ponente beach town with kilns firing since the 1600s and a ceramic on its parish church façade.

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  Ceriana

  Province: Imperia · 369 m

  A medieval village at 369 meters above the Valle Armea, inland from Sanremo, built on the Roman castrum that gave it its name.

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  Cervo

  Province: Imperia · 66 m

  A hilltop village on the Riviera di Ponente built by coral fishermen, named for the Roman mansio on the Via Julia Augusta.

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  Chiavari

  Province: Genova · 3 m

  The Tigullio capital between Portofino and the Cinque Terre, a 27,000-person Genoese trading town built around a thirteenth-century grid of porticoed streets.

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  Cipressa

  Province: Imperia · 232 m

  A ridgeline village at 232 meters above the Riviera dei Fiori, the climb that decides the final selection of a famous cycling race and a sixteenth-century Saracen-defence tower as its summit.

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  Dolceacqua

  Province: Imperia · 51 m

  A two-banked medieval village split by a single-arch bridge from 1400, the one Monet came to paint in 1884.

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  Finale Ligure

  Province: Savona · 12 m

  Three boroughs on the Gulf of Genoa, a walled inland seat set back from two coastal quarters below a karst limestone circuit.

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  Laigueglia

  Province: Savona · 6 m

  A former coral-fishing village on the Riviera di Ponente, with a curved Baroque parish church and a fishermen's grid of caruggi behind the beach.

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  Lavagna

  Province: Genova · 6 m

  The Tigullio town that gave its name to slate, and its counts to a line of popes.

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  Loano

  Province: Savona · 13 m

  A Doria fief on the Savona coast where a Renaissance palace stands over a Roman mosaic, in the shadow of the mountain that shelters it.

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  Moneglia

  Province: Genova · 4 m

  A bay on the Riviera di Levante, closed by two wooded headlands.

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  Noli

  Province: Savona · 4 m

  The fifth Italian maritime republic from 1192 to 1797, a walled coastal town with the Romanesque basilica of San Paragorio outside its gates.

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  Perinaldo

  Province: Imperia · 572 m

  A ridge village at 572 meters, birthplace of Giovanni Domenico Cassini and home to a working astronomical observatory in his name.

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  Pietra Ligure

  Province: Savona · 4 m

  A Riviera di Ponente town named after the rock castle above its center, known today for one of the largest triennial flower carpets in Europe.

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  Pieve di Teco

  Province: Imperia · 240 m

  A planned market town founded in 1233 in the middle Arroscia valley, with porticoed Corso Ponzoni and the second-smallest theater in Italy.

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  Portofino

  Province: Genova · 3 m

  Three hundred and fifty-five residents, the smallest municipal territory in the metropolitan area, and the harbor every superyacht in the Mediterranean wants to anchor in.

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  Rapallo

  Province: Genova · 3 m

  The largest town on the Tigullio gulf, twice the location of treaties that redrew borders in postwar Europe.

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  Recco

  Province: Genova · 5 m

  A coastal town rebuilt from 90 percent destruction in 1943, known for IGP cheese focaccia and Pro Recco water polo.

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  Sanremo

  Province: Imperia · 10 m

  The capital of the Italian Riviera dei Fiori: Belle Époque casino and palm-lined Lungomare on the seafront, a medieval labyrinth climbing the hill behind, and a year-round mild climate that built the original Northern European winter trade.

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  Santa Margherita Ligure

  Province: Genova · 13 m

  The Tigullio town that kept its fishing port while the world drove past on the way to Portofino two kilometers further.

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  Savona

  Province: Savona · 4 m

  A working port city with two Della Rovere popes, a Sistine Chapel that came before the Roman one, and a fortress on the old town.

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  Seborga

  Province: Imperia · 517 m

  A hilltop village at 517 meters above Bordighera that calls itself a principality, 276 residents, its own coins and stamps since 1963.

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  Sestri Levante

  Province: Genova · 10 m

  The Tigullio town of two bays, split by a peninsula where a river once silted an island to the shore.

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  Toirano

  Province: Savona · 35 m

  A medieval village at the mouth of the Val Varatella, four kilometers inland from Loano, with karst caves holding 14,000-year-old human footprints.

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  Triora

  Province: Imperia · 776 m

  The witches' village at 776 meters in the upper Valle Argentina, where the Inquisition put around 200 women on trial between 1587 and 1589.

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  Varazze

  Province: Savona · 10 m

  A Ligurian shipbuilding town whose thirteenth-century friar compiled the saint lives that became the most copied book in Europe after the Bible.

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  Zuccarello

  Province: Savona · 130 m

  A 280-person medieval borgo in the Neva valley above Albenga, founded by the Marquises of Clavesana in 1248, birthplace of Ilaria del Carretto.

Catalogue note: this is what we can document, not everything that qualifies. Where a zone is written in law as a whole province rather than a list of communes, we never expand it to towns, so a town missing here has not been ruled out. Plenty of comuni inside the wider zone also sit outside our catalogue of 1,000. See how the data is sourced.