Apricale: a beautiful Italian village

It is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, located in the province of Imperia, scenographically arranged around the square, has a stairway soul, with old stone buildings that develop in height on several floors: so it happens that the entrance is on the top floor and you have to go down the stairs to access the rooms.

Apricale means poems made in the street, artists' ateliers, a refuge for travelers who have found the locus amenus in which to listen to the elves or the owl in the woods.
Claudius Nobbio, the "poet of Avrigue", tells the myths of Apricale in verse: the mysterious lizard which gives its name to the castle, found in the form of old rusty metal in the stone circle of Pian del Re, where the king of the Celts had stopped; the "Trumpeter of Apricale" John Martin, General Custer's soldier and sole survivor of the Little Big Horn massacre; the arrival of some Templars escaped from Provence and hidden in the tower ...

Apricale, the kiss of the stone with the sun