The Gulf of La Spezia extends at south-east end of the Ligurian coast, between two Appennine ridges, which separate it on one side from the Valley of the Magra, in which Sarzana and Luni are the most important villages, and on the other from the Tyrrhenian Sea. Near this Gulf there is the so-called "The Poets' Gulf" named in this way because Dante, Petrarca, the great English poets Shelly and Byron and many others stayed in the quiet of these suggestive villages. These villages are Tellaro, Fiascherino, Lerici, San Terenzo and Portovenere. That stretch of the litus italicum, which Francesco Petrarca thought worth celebrating by an immortal song, is known all over the world with the name of Five Lands. This is one of the most suggestive regions in the Ligurian Riviera, and extends from Punta del Mesco to Punta di Montenero, including five characteristic villages lying between rock and sea: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso. In this villages we can admire the clear sea or our eyes can sweep the immense horizons with the steep cliffs of the sea.