Lerici - Touristic Guide

 Castle of Lerici
 The Castle is raised on the summit of a rocky promontory that closes to south the bay of Lerici. It has an irregular plant of shape poligonale and is equipped to the outside one of a really imposing curtain of wall dominated to east from the bulky volume of the tower pentagonale.
 The nearly unbroken Castle preserve the wall it and in good conditions is also the small thirteenth-century hat of gothic style-ligurian dedicated to Holy Anastasia that rises to the inside.

 Oratory of San Rocco
  goes back to the century XIII and was raised, how awaited the tombstone murata on the front of the adjacent belltower, in 1287, in honor of the Holy Martino and Cristoforo. Broadened towards the 1523 and dedicated, during the pestilence, to San Rocco patron of the appestati.
 The oratory likely was built on a precedent "hospitable" that welcomed the pilgrims that passed in the port.

 Parochial church of San Francesco D'Assisi
 Its origin goes back to the end of 1200. The church, from the sober lines and distinguished, has an alone nave. The pale of altar are considerable works of author, almost all of the Genevan school. The valuable temple preserved furnish sacred from the family Botti. The church raised the oratory of San Bernardino from Siena, build in the time of the official Saint and later it was reshaped and refortified. On the greatest altar we can admire the precious painting of Domenico Fiasella.

 Oratory of San Bernardino
 The oratory, at present closed to religion, is titled to S. Bernardino from Siena. The Holy one was canonized in 1450 and will be able to give the title to the Church alone after such date, even if the Church already was cited towards in 1498. It was build from the Confraternita of the Disciplined who in 1695 decided to stretch it. The altars become three and enriched themselves with works of art among which the Madonna with Child of Fiasella and the Triptych of Gar.

 The goepaleontologic museum of the Castle of Lerici
 The museum is born from the discovery in the territory of of dinosaurs and footprints in Lerici and other reptiles, dated back to about 220 million years, aside to Ilario Sirigu. But there is a contingent fact, to Lerici there are ideas, materials and above all a long tradition in geopaleontology,that sinks his roots in the XIX century when the scientist break Giovanni Capellini, one of the founders of geology in Italy, actual in the promontories of the Gulf started his search.