Monterosso public beach (Fegina)
Long sandy shoreline watched over by a wrecked concrete giant that once held up a dance floor.
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This guide to Monterosso's Fegina beach in Cinque Terre opens around 1910, on a seaside terrace shaped like a giant shell, where a wealthy couple named Giovanni and Juanita Pastine held parties above a fourteen-meter concrete Neptune built by sculptor Arrigo Minerbi. It follows their private playground through the couple's fortunes, Giovanni's death after the First World War, and the German occupation and Allied bombing that later reached the villa above. Stand at the far end of the beach and look up at the god who was built to hold up somebody else's dance floor.
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