Alassio

Alassio is a city and comune inside the province of Savona situated inside the western coast of Liguria, Northern Italy, about 80 kilometres from the French border. Alassio is known for its herbal and scenic perspectives. The town centre is crossed by means of a pedestrianised cobbled street called the Budello. The metropolis has sandy beaches, blue sea and lots of bars and eating places on the sea front. Alassio has additionally a pier called "Molo di Alassio" or "Pontile Bestoso" which gives perspectives of the town. Alassio is situated on the Riviera di Ponente coast, and it has a small traveller port named "Luca Ferrari".

It became also called a fitness resort in iciness and a showering region in summer season, and has many motels. The English composer Edward Elgar wrote a concert-overture known as In the South even as staying on excursion in Alassio within the winter of 1903–04. Alassio is featured as the vicinity for a vacation in the 1944 movie The Children Are Watching Us. It is likewise the region of a few scenes of The Pleasure Garden, The Snorkel and Inkheart. The painter Felix Nussbaum stayed in Alassio in 1934 and it appears on lots of his lighter artwork.