"The House of Wives" a Camogli Travel Page by craic

I have very much wanted to go to Camogli ever since I saw a photo of it taken early last century of a wild sea beating right up against the buildings.
It used to be a dirt poor fishing village - a local friend told me the name comes from Casa di Mogli - House of wives. So many widows, so many wives whose husbands were away at sea fishing.
It's not dirt poor now of course.

Cafes, restaurants, gelateria, shops. On a sunny Sunday in November it is just the place to take the kids and grandma and the dog for an airing.

Mind you, all these cliffside fishing villages have many stairs down - and stairs up too - to make you feel you have deserved that coffee or ice cream.

The station is listed on the timetable as Camogli-S. Fruttuoso, which is a bit confusing. But San Fruttuoso is an ancient and beautiful monastery on a beach which can only be reached by boat. One of the places you can catch a boat to it is from Camogli. I saw ferries going to other places too. Like the underwater statue - The Christ of the Abyss.
I think that is the statue that got damaged in 2004 and was taken out of the water to be repaired and someone saw something miraculous on its chest - something like that. I saw people in Genova back in 2004 queuing round the block to look at it.
And I saw a dive school too. So there you go - the diving must be reasonable. Maybe people dive to look at the chest of The Christ Of The Abyss.