At Shelley’s House At Lerici Comments

The popularity of Lerici with the Shelleys and with Lord Byron earned the Golfo di Lerici its title of the Golfo dei Poeti, the Poets' Bay.

Lerici is a town not far from La Spezia in Liguria (northern Italy) , on the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia. Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley lived some three miles north of Lerici, in an isolated old boat house called 'Casa Magni', and anchored their sailing boat ('Ariel') in Lerici.

In 1818 Shelley left England permanently with Mary and settled in Italy - where many of his famous poems were written.