Travel Journal

Enter as guest, leave as a friend

Our motto at the Relais del Maro contains in a few words our most important goal: to help you take home unique emotions by enjoying a completely new experience. What are we talking about? Stay with us and read our diary, which has an important task: to show you through our eyes how extraordinary and unexpected the pleasure of returning to enjoy simplicity can be. That’s what we are trying in Borgomaro, with a little innovation and a pinch of madness!
Live with us a quiet time of pure relaxation, suspended halfway between the electrifying joy of a holiday and the choice of a tourism that respects the environment and the community that surrounds the place where you are.
Many small steps, taken together and with courage, have brought us up to here, but our eyes are already looking at the infinite road that awaits us ahead, and this time we want to take you with us: follow us on our adventure!

The typical recipes of Christmas in Liguria

Food and wine, Travel tips

Aaah, Christmas traditions! Every region, city, town…actually every family has its own! In mine, for example, we have always only celebrated with lunch on December 25th. And I have often thought: "That's enough for me!"…and in fact, that's enough indeed since there is...

Michelin Guide: the new stars of the Ligurian Western Riviera

Food and wine, Travel tips

Many of them already shone in this wonderful celestial vault, some are rising now: look up and admire with us the new stars of the culinary panorama of Western Liguria. Joining the veterans in the field, including one of our favourites right in Imperia - the Sarri...

Ligurian focaccia: around Imperia and its surroundings, in search of the best focaccia!

Travel tips

If it's not greasy, it's not Fugassa! Try ordering focaccia in any bakery in Imperia: if they are rooted in tradition, they will serve you a strip of the softest, tastiest, oiled baked product ever! The Ligurian focaccia. Of course, in Imperia, you will not find the...

A splendid ride on the most beautiful cycling track in Europe!

Travel tips

Mainstream? Never! Actually, I know more people who have not yet tried it! What am I talking about? Of one of those perfect days where the sky shines a clear blue, the sun bounces off the flowers lighting them, and the sound of the sea accompanies the beating of your...

All the shades of the Ligurian Sea

Offerte, Travel tips

There are several ways of living the sealife and we want you to live all the different ones: a day like a real fisherman, a boattrip on a private boat with a swim in the blue water near the Gallinara Island and a day spent doing windsurf, SUP or diving To live also...

Where did you get that dress? – Shopping in the Riviera dei Fiori

News, Travel tips

We absolutely do not want to brag, but you often ask us where we find the colourful dresses that we use at work, and so today we will reveal the mystery with an article about shopping in western Liguria! Well, you should know that around every corner here there is a...

When travel becomes multigenerational: the best opportunity to build family memories

News, Travel tips

Your grandfather is a boomer, your mom a baby-boomer, you are a millennial, but despite this, do you still dream of spending a holiday together? Maybe with the addition of uncles, cousins and, why not, some children in a big family reunion? No, you are not crazy and...

The Typical Town Shops

Food and wine, News

That of small towns is a simple world, where everyone knows each other and where you can still go to the small shop and ask for "the usual". Do you also miss small-town shops? Then follow us for a tour of traditional shops of Western Ligurian that we have collected...

Breakfast on the waterfront | A morning coffee by the sea in Imperia

Travel tips

It's been ringing in our ears since the dawn of time, from the times when we left the house to go to children school with our backpacks twice the size of us: breakfast is the most important meal of the day Refuelling in the morning is essential, but I am veeeery lazy...

Liguria into the wild | The hidden lakes

Travel tips

The scorching heat and rocky shores are not your cup of tea? Neither are busy beaches and sand in your costume? Don't feel left out, because there's a third alternative: a fresh, sheltered and hidden natural lake where you can enjoy the shade and clear water in full...