HOLIDAYS IN IMPERIA

Good morning, I am Riccarda, owner with my husband Luigi of “Le Navi in ​​Cielo” and I want to tell you the story of our holiday apartments, located within our family olive groves, arranged on ancient strips of land typical of Liguria. Our countryside is located on the first hill behind Imperia Oneglia, just over 3 km from the city center. Imperia is located between Sanremo to the west and Alassio to the east. About twenty kilometers separate us from these two jewels of the Riviera dei Fiori. But Imperia itself is a small jewel that, in reality, offers the visitor two cities, two towns completely different from each other (also in history), but both beautiful: Oneglia to the east and Porto Maurizio to the west.
Inside our olive grove in Imperia we have renovated an old farm building creating two holiday apartments called Le Rocce, on the upper floor, and Le Pietre, on the lower floor, so that we can offer our guests a taste of what my summer holidays were like. In fact, since I was 3 years old I have always spent my summer holidays here in the countryside accompanied by my grandmother Angiolina and my mother.

The living conditions were not very comfortable as we had no water, electricity, gas or road, so much so that my mother would walk down to the city every morning to go to work. So I stayed with my grandmother to collect wild herbs, clean the strips of weeds, doze in the shade of the olive trees and prepare delicacies. In the afternoon, my mother would return by walking up the old inter-farm paths, bringing us reserves of food and drinking water. The most beautiful hours were those of the evening when, by candlelight, we would sit under a tree and my mother, with her sweet voice, would begin to sing the romantic songs of her time. And it was not uncommon for someone from some other hut in the valley to join in her singing.
So today we have created 2 apartments that reflect the style of the time, furnished with restored family furniture, since a modern style would not be appropriate for the experience we want to convey.
We decided to set up apartments with fully equipped kitchens and independent access rather than bedrooms, to allow guests maximum freedom of time and movement and to feel, even on holiday, at home.