Chiavari Things to Do

Christoph Columbus / Cristobal Colon was born in Genua and so almost each and every town in Liguria will have a monument for its most famous son.

The one for Chiavari you will see, when you walk from the beach-promenade to the centre of town.
It is quite impressive and was built as the centre of a round-about.

Genova / Genua is a Must of course and makes a great daytrip with the train from Chiavari !

Genua is the birthplace of C.Columbus and you may still see the house where he was born.
There is a big aquarium directely at the port, opposite of a modern Pirate-ship built for the movie by Roman Polansky.
Walk all the tiny , narrow streets of the old town, have a look into Palazzo Dukale and the Duomo, take the funicolare / cablecar to Righi or walk down via XX.Spt. - time will fly quickly and the day will be gone fast...

Boccadasse was a small fishing-village once, but when Genova grew bigger and bigger, it was swallowed by the big city, BUT it kept a lot of its romantic atmosphere with tiny streets, romantic buildings and lots of fisherboats on the stoney beach.
My rather large pic was partly cut by VT in the smaller size - Just click on the picture to see also the rest of it !

Boccadasse is also a great place to eat in luxury restaurants or rather simple take-away-restaurants offering seafood and even Farinata.

Santa Margherita Ligure is in a distance of just 2 or 3 stops on the train to Genova and it is the best place to go on a small cruise to Portofino and S.Frutuoso.

While waiting for your ship or for the bus to Portofino, you really should take a look into the great church in the centre of Santa Margherita Ligure.
Watch out for the rich decorations and ornaments, it is really worth it !

I may highly recommend to stroll through the Marina of Chiavari, and all the other villages along the Ligurian coast.

You will see a big number of unique sailing-yachts, like the Katamaran on my picture - big enough for my dream to sail around the world one day...
Obviously the Marinas are open to all visitors, as nobody chased me away

It certainly makes sense to maybe rent a motorscooter or take the train and leave in small, unknown stations on your way to Genua and walk along the coastline.
The coast looks really nice and plenty of rich people built their nobles homes and castles directely at the sea, like this one, I saw close to Bocadasse / Genua (in a distance of maybe 2o minutes by train from Chiavari)

Lots of palmtrees grow in the public parks of Chiavari and on the promenade along the ozean-front.
They are not the type that grow in large pots and have to be removed in winter, but the grow in the ground and stay there throughout the year.
My pics were taken in early march, and while trees in Austria would have no leaves at all in march, it was nice to see these trees in Liguria already in full green.

There is a wide promenade along the sea with garden-restaurants, marinas, beaches, benches and playgrounds for the children.
I had been there in early march and the weather was nice and mild already with a steady breeze.
I may imagine what the promenade looks like in summer.

When you have enough time, you may drive all the way from Genua to Sestri Levante on the coast-road and find such a boulevard at most villages along the coast.