Diano Marina - the main town of the Gulf of Dianese, which also includes the municipalities of San Bartolomeo al Mare, Cervo, Villa Faraldi, Diano Castello, Diano Arentino and Diano San Pietro - has a very large pedestrian area that crosses the city center. In the last ten years, Diano Marina has been the first tourist city of the Ponente and the third in the whole of Liguria with about 845,000 tourists per year. Diano Marina has ancient testimonies of the II century B.C. borrowing its name from the Roman goddess of the hunt Diana. Several Roman remains are therefore present on its territory, among which the Locus Bormani (241 BC) which is located in the area of the Exhibition Hall next to the tennis club. In 1975 a Roman ship of the first century was found at a depth of 40 meters in the Gulf of Dianese with 14 enormous ziri, vases for transporting ordinary wine (the good wine was transported in amphorae), four of which are now on display in the atrium of the town hall, the others in the naval museum of Imperia. Several Roman remains can be seen in Diano Marina on the second floor of the civic museum in the Palazzo del Parco; on the second floor there is a library and a museum of the Risorgimento with the memoirs of the ship's captain (a native of Diano Marina) Andrea Rossi who participated in the Italian Risorgimento alongside Giuseppe Garibaldi. The parish church of Sant'Antonio Abate hosts several important events: on Corpus Domini in June the road from the town hall to the church is filled with flowers; on July 16 a procession leaves the church to the Cavour pier where divers lay a wreath of flowers in front of the 2.5 meter high statue of the Virgin Stella Maris; at Christmas the baby Jesus is retrieved from the sea by the divers of the Diana Sub club who then lay him in front of the church altar at midnight. Among the local products of Diano Marina are cold-pressed olive oil, rabbit and Vermentino wine.

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