Today locals use the trails to walk into town from the rural interior ... I slept off my jet lag on my two-hour car transfer to the coast, waking just past Genoa to catch my first glimpse of ...

From Genoa, it’s just a 40-minute train ... it’s one of the most beautiful walks in Italy. You follow a mostly flat coastal promenade right next to the sea, surrounded by cliffs and mountains.

Shipbuilders, explorers, merchants, and fisherman—the people of the northern Italian coast have been intricately linked to the sea for many generations. Ligurian cities like Genoa, and important ...