Celle shares its name with a pretty town in
the north of Germany.
There, trellised houses and baronial
castles speak to us of the lives and history of its inhabitants;
here, the colorful facades of the tall buildings which look out
over narrow caruggi or alleyways go to make in one of
Liguria's most charming and best-kept seaside villages.
Double rows if centuries-old houses, painted
in bright, brilliant colors - enabling the fishermen of old to distinguish
their homes from the sea - a long, winding passageway, closed to traffic
and animated by a thousand-and-one tiny shops, by the hubbub of passers-by,
and then a long sandy beach lined with multicolored bathing huts and sunshades
joins the village to the great blue plateau out yonder, stretching off
to the east towards the leafy new area of Piani di Celle and, beyond,
to Varazze.
