- The nearest international airport is Nice, Cote d’Azur.
- The fastest way. Hire a car and follow the blue signs to A8, direction Monaco - Menton. You have to pay twice in France (1,40 euro and 1, 90 euro), either by throwing coins bigger than 5 eurocents to the basket (aim well!) or with credit card. In Italy А8 becomes A10, and the signs are green. Don’t forget to light the headlights, it’s obligatory in Italy in any time of the day. Get a ticket. Drive until you see the signs “Arma di Taggia”. The exit is right after Amoretti tunnel. Then you have to pay again - 4,60 euro. No baskets, but almost always there is somebody to give you change. You drive down from the motorway to Arma di Taggia. Just follow the signs “Triora”, they seem a bit misleading, but sooner or later you will find yourself on the right road. Follow it doubtlessly. If you are not used to drive in the mountains, don’t rush. If somebody deadly wants to overtake you, let him do it by stopping in a relatively broad place. You pass through Taggia, Badalucco, Agagio, Molini di Triora… stop for a moment and look up: some 300 meters over your head there are houses hanging over the precipice. That’s Triora. Another 6 kilometres of hair-pin bends - and here you are! 90 km, about 2 hours.
- If you don’t want to hire a car, or can’t drive, you still can get here all by yourself, but it is a long journey. First, take a bus from the airport to the railway station of Nice. Then take a train to Sanremo or Taggia. Most likely you will have to change in Ventimiglia. Finally, take another bus that goes to Triora. Important: check the timetable! It’s in Italian, so be smart. You need number 16, but not the one that goes to Carpasio! The one that goes to Triora. Hint: festivi = weekend, feriali = working days.
- Other airports around: Albenga (only flights from Rome), Genoa, Turin. The instructions are basically the same: either you have to find A10 motorway and then to take Arma di Taggia exit, or you have to take a train to Taggia. Timetable - http://trenitalia.it
September 6th, 2007 | useful | 1 Comment
