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Cinque Terre and Tuscany cooking Tour (3
nights)
Tuscany Cooking & Touring Tour
(5 nights)
Tuscany Cooking break (3 nights)
Tuscany Truffles Autumn Cooking & Touring
long week-end (2 nights)
Savona itineraries:
Savova
Savova foods
Whale Watching
Riviera delle Palme:
Alassio
Albenga
Andora
Bergeggi
Borghetto S. Spirito
Borgio Verezzi
Celle Ligure
Finale Ligure
Noli
Pietra Ligure
Spotorno
Varazze
Varigotti
Riviera dei Fiori:
Apricale
Cervo
Toirano
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Cervo and its classical music.
Cervo is an ancient town of the
Italian Riviera in the province of Imperia. One of its attractions is a
fine baroque church overlooking the sea.
Cervo's connections with classical music date back to
1964, when the International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo was
established by the famous Hungarian violinist Sandor Vegh.
The event has
been held every summer ever since.
Music master classes - Accademia
di Cervo - are held in September, and a guitar academy is held in
June.
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The International Chamber Music Festival of Cervo
is held every summer in the picturesque church square (July – August).
Among the world-class stars who have performed are Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli, Sviatoslav Richter, Wilhelm Kempff, Maurizio Pollini,
Yehudi Menuhin, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Martha Argerich, Uto Ughi,
Mozarteum Camerata, Ivo Pogorelić, Andras Schiff, Luciano Berio, F. P.
Zimmermann, François Thiollier, Paul Badura-Skoda, the King's Singers,
Rudolf Buchbinder, Cyprien Katsaris, Joseph Silverstein, Pietro De
Maria, Viktoria Mullova, Ulf Hoelscher, David Geringas, Arnulf von Arnim,
Timothy Park, Monika Leskovar, Boris Andrianov, Salvatore Accardo, Fazil
Say, and Hyun-Sun Kim.
The square before the Corallini Church in Cervo has
had the honor of hosting performances by all of them.
A smug albeit straightforward description of the
qualities of this festival, from the charming square where it is held to
the medieval architecture ennobling the field of vision, is thus
inadequate, for each fabulous stone in this place has been exalted and
made immortal by the passage of these stars of classical music.
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Cervo Ligure - Photo (c)
aterreno
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"It is true, we have to admit it: Cervo doesn’t have what the rest are
offering.
The village, for example, has neither modern buildings nor asphalted
streets. It lags behind – it’s still a tiny medieval village with
century-old houses, where artisans and artists ply their trade in cobbled
alleys that are too narrow for cars, so one can only walk in them.
And the beach has no deck-chairs by the hundreds that are enlivened by
radios and mobile phones: Cervo offers only small and scanty organised
bathing establishments; the remaining beaches and cliffs are free and
uncrowded, you can hear no noise other than the sea. And the sea water is
not lukewarm for the thousands who got in before you, it is always fresh,
with seabeds rich in seaweed and fish.
The green hills are deserted, not even a residential area, nor a handful of
motels, or at least a highway: uphill from Cervo, around a few ruins of
bygone times there is nothing but woods, pine trees, olive groves, all criss-crossed
by paths unknown to moto-cross riders.
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On the table, then, you will get no exotic dishes: Cervo has kept quietly
true to the Mediterranean diet, here the oil is still made by cold-pressing
the olives, and the wine is made with grapes; as for the fish, we catch them
every morning from the sea, not in the deep-freezer.
Then there are no monuments to anybody who did anything grand: Cervo has
only an Ethnographic Museum celebrating the ragged Ligurian Man and Woman
performing their daily duties.
Then as far as the events are concerned, no jolly gastronomic festivals nor
sparkling celebrations of folklore: in Cervo only the greatest international
musicians perform concerts in the moonlight for everyone to enjoy in
enraptured silence.
Let’s be honest: Cervo has nothing like the others; therefore it attracts
only those who are unlike the rest. This is the reason why we are waiting
for you."
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Cervo - Photo (c)
Vidharr
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Comune di Cervo
Official Tourist Site
(c) 1997-2008 E. Massetti
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