Do you want to take a holiday in Ceriale and you want some ideas for both cultural and recreational activities? Today we are talking about a beautiful place: the Gallinara Island, which remains right in our sea, a few kilometers from Ceriale.
La Gallinara is a small island in the western Liguria that is about a mile from the coast of Albenga (Savona), a municipality to which it belongs, bordering with Ceriale.
It owes its name to the wild hens that inhabited it in the past and in antiquity was a landing place for Roman, Greek and Phoenician ships. Towards the end of the IVth century it was a refuge for San Martino from Tours.
Declared at the end of the eighties Regional Natural Reserve of Gallinara, it is one of the largest nesting colonies of sea gulls in the Ligurian Sea, which are hosted by cliffs overlooking the sea on its southern slope.
Two wrecks lie in the surrounding sea bed of the Gallinara, one of which from the Roman period, discovered in the first half of the last century, and the other more recent.
One of the two wrecks dates back to the fifth century and was probably coming from Marseilles, given the documented trade. Many of the recovered finds, including Roman amphorae from the Republican period to the 7th century, are kept in the beautiful Naval Museum of Albenga at the Palazzo Peloso Cepolla.
Pay a visit to the Museum!
The dives are allowed only in two specific points and if accompanied by the guides of the Diving Centers affiliated. You can admire in the waters of the beautiful Gallinara the sea daisies and yellow sponges, even large.
On the seabed surrounding the island, in 1998 the statue of Christ the Redeemer was placed.
There are boats departing from many ports of Western Liguria that in summer lead to a nice tour of the Gallinara Island, which allows you to admire the colonies of seagulls, the beautiful jagged coastline and the clear waters with many varieties of fish.
