Pista ciclabile della ferrovia Levanto-Bonassola-Framura

The Levanto–Bonassola–Framura coastal path follows the alignment of a former railway along the Ligurian coast, preserving its tunnels and other engineering features.

Why it matters

The Levanto–Bonassola–Framura coastal path reuses the trackbed of a former Genoa–Pisa railway, abandoned in 1970 and converted in stages in 2010 and 2011. Its tunnels and coastal alignment preserve a distinctive piece of railway infrastructure shared by three seaside communities.

What to notice

The former railway alignment alternates between open coastal stretches and tunnels cut through the rock. Small coves and beaches appear along the shore, while the tunnel mouths, cuttings and retaining walls preserve the engineering of the nineteenth-century railway.

Context and history

When the Sestri Levante–La Spezia line was doubled in the 1930s, parts of the original coastal railway lost their function. The Levanto–Bonassola stretch remained in service until its final abandonment in 1970. In the mid-2000s, the municipalities of Bonassola and Levanto and the Liguria Region advanced a project to reuse the railway alignment. The conversion opened in stages in 2010 and 2011, and in 2015 the route received the name Maremonti through an ideas competition in local schools. The project transformed a disused railway corridor into a coastal landscape connection among Levanto, Bonassola and Framura.