Cruise passengers seem to be kind of lost in the city? What if I was a cruise passenger in La Spezia, what would I do? Three ideas on what to do if you choose to stay in the city.
And if I was a cruise passenger in La Spezia? What would I do? Too short a stop to trip to the sea in one of the heavenly beaches of the Riviera. Too little time to go looking for special places in the surroundings. It might be an idea to visit a museum, but maybe you do not want to be indoor.
What to do then? We tried to put ourselves in the cruisers’shoes and figure out three ideas for a visit to the city can set you in touch with the true, authentic local spirit.
1 – A stroll in via Prione among shops and typical flavors
If you do not have much time to spend and you must choose one and only one street to go, I would choose via Prione. Among all La Spezia’s streets, it is the most close to the typical Ligurian
Carugio – narrow street – .
Popular street for the youth meet-ups, flanked from start to end with shop windows.
It is also the right place to be to taste some local
Delicatessen.
In Via Magenta, a small road crossing Via Prione, is
La Pia, century-old pizzeria and La Spezia spirit holder. A
take-away farinata should not be missed here (read
this post with history and curiosities of the farinata).
If you are fans of focaccia, however, in
via Prione you have two excellent bakeries: after Piazza Ramiro Ginocchio is
Il Fornaio while in Piazza Garibaldi the right address is
Mister Molini.