Summary Beginning of the journey in Alassio (Liguria): Jérôme arrives at the Villa della Pergola and meets there Giorgia Trupiano, the landscaper in charge of the gardens of this villa and Stefano Maurizio the gardener who takes care for the agapanthus flowers (a collection of 500 varieties of this flower): Giorgia tells that before Alassio was a village of fishermen and farmers, but the Britih tourists began to come and they brought many exotic plants.After that Jérôme and Giorgia are visiting Genoa: they see the house where Christopher Columbus was born, they see the Porta Soprana (or Porta Sant' Andrea) and the ramparts: they walk through the old town and arrive at the Forno: they taste there a focaccia (flat leavened oven-baked bread) that Genovese people are eating during all the day.Later they go to the Pharmacy Santa Anna (founded in 1650) where they meet Frate Ezio Battaglia, a herbalist who prepare for them a rose syrup and they taste the rose syrup.Later they go to the Porto di Genoa Pra where they meet Matteo Pezzana who shows them the greenhouse with basil: they go to the workshop, there are a mortar and a pestle and they prepare their own pesto (crushing garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves and Pecorino or Parmesan cheese with a touch of olive oil) and they taste the pesto on a piece of focaccia.After Jérôme visits the biosphere: a glass dome donated by the architect Renzo Piano to the town of Genoa: inside there is little tropical forest.Then Jérôme takes the train towards La Spezia and stops at Manarola (Cinque Terre-Unesco World Heritage site): there he meets Lorenzo Bramanti, a marine biologist and Massimo Andreoli (the commander in charge of the marine reserve: they dive to see the coral reef. After that Jérôme goes up Manarola and meets Lorenzo Galetti (Wild Farm Corniglia): they travel by an APE 50 to Corniglia: after living many years in Milan Lorenzo has come back to Corniglia to practice agriculture: they meet Niccolo and Gianpaolo, the associates of Lorenzo who this day prepare a "limoncello" (lemon liquor): after tasting the "limoncello" they go to the farm, visit the vegetables parcel, restore a stone wall and plant a lemon tree.Later Jérôme enjoys with Lorenzo, Niccolo and Gianpaolo a great meal with fresh tuna, salad , focaccia and they explain that they help old people restoring their parcels and that they try to be examples for other young people who return to their home villages. Besides we see zooms about Borgighera (the Garnier Villa, the British influence in the Italian Rivera), about the medieval villages in the mountains, about the village of Camogli and its tiny beach, about the hiking guide Francesca Magillo, about the violet asparagus of Albenga, about the green oysters, about the Vespa in Genoa,, about the hydroponic growing of basil under water, about Pierluigi Lugano the wine maker , about the pruning of olive trees in Apricale, about the vineyards in Cinque Terre, about the rebirth of Bussana Vecchia and about the "Orto collettivo di Genova".

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