Il Parco Letterario ®
Percy B. Shelley
San Terenzo e il Golfo dei Poeti

The new Literary Park dedicated to Percy B. Shelley was created to mark the bicentenary of the poet’s death in 1822. The objective of the project is to bring together in an ideal way – and not only – two unique and iconic places: the Shelley Park in San Terenzo and the so-called “Pietraia”, at the foot of the Forte della Rocchetta. At the “Pietraia” (La Rocchetta) eight works of art by Marco Nereo Rotelli – literary books in marble, inscribed with Shelley’s verses – create a contemplative space where you can admire the landscape and let yourself be carried away by the poetic suggestion. In San Terenzo, the Shelley Park – next to Villa Magni, the poet’s last earthly abode – becomes the scene of a new scenography where one can admire poetic books and discover the iconic and timeless place that inspired Shelley’s last compositions before his tragic death. One of the works located in Shelley Park presents a verse by Eugenio Montale, in a sort of literary bridge connecting the Gulf of Poets to the Cinque Terre, through two voices that have sung, each in its own way, about Liguria… a Region that is poetry in itself.