The Port of La Spezia, that is all the Gulf, is one of the more wonderful things that are in Italy... going back from Portovenere towards the bottom of the gulf, a gulf is found that the Chestnut is called; then one heads of earth, where there is a fort; then, a gulf, that it is the port of Varignano, wonderful... Chearles De Montesquieu (Travel in Italy 1728) Many poets and writers, in the course of the history, are remained bewitch to you from the beauty of the places and the atmospheres that the Gulf of La Spezia unavoidablly provokes. This is the reason for which it has been renamed the "Gulf of the Poets": Dante, Byron, Montesquieu, Shelley, Wagner, Of Notice, Hemingway, Mounts them, Soldiers is only some of the masters who have left testimony of the fascination inspired from these territories. As in an embrace the Gulf is delimited from Portovenere and Lerici, antichi dense villages of history and suggestion, today delicious their tourist goals that use however original carisma. To the inside of the insenatura, covering the coast, charming countries like the bay of Thanks are met equally and from the opposite side Saint Terenzo and Tellaro. The vital relationship univoco and with the sea, the element emerges in every angle of the Gulf hinge nearly all the activities tied to the city and its outskirtses, from the tourism to the Military Arsenal, from the Mercantile Port to the "peasants of the sea". As in "affresco" that it reproduces scenes of daily life and last history, between ends and panoramas, antichi carrugi and modern public squares, the Gulf of the Poets represents one of the scenes that mainly deserve of being known and being preservato.