Sestri Levante is one of the typical villages of the Ligurian Riviera, located at the end of the Gulf of Tigullio, between Portofino and the Gulf of Cinque Terre. Today Sestri Levante is a tourist resort highly appreciated for its extremely mild climate and its picturesque landscapes. In fact, born as a fishing village, it develops on a small peninsula that divides the gulf on which it overlooks - Gulf of Tugullio - into two truly suggestive bays: The Bay of Silence and the Bay fairy tales. The same, especially in the summer, offer sparse points and buoys for pleasure boats.

A rocky promontory called by the inhabitants simply 'island', stretching towards the sea is joined to the mainland by a thin strip of land that divides the Bay of Fables, where the marina was obtained and whose name was attributed by the writer Hans Christian Andersen who here he stayed, from the even more suggestive Bay of Silence.

Sestri Levante thus hosts the traditional Andersen Festival, a review of various shows, street theater, performance, dance, music and narratives, with artists From all over the world, they will involve adults and children in a big party with a thousand colors. Part of the history of the village is the construction of the Leudi, Latin sailing boats, of which today there is still a splendid renovated specimen on the beach of the “Balin”, in the Bay of Fables.