Tellaro

Picturesque seaside village, is situated at Tellaro eastern Gulf of Poets, on a rocky spur that slopes towards the sea. Its origins are linked to the ancient village Barbazzano that with the great plague of 1348 was abandoned by encouraging the development of Tellaro, probably built between 1320 and 1380.
The structure of the old town is based on the original fortifications, with houses surrounded by walls on the north-west. Of the three existing towers remain today two of Pisan origin, transformed into a bell tower of the church of San Giorgio of the sixteenth century and the other at the entrance to the village, near dell'Oratorio of Santa Maria in Sela.
The church with its characteristic pink color is located directly on the sea, at the center of the square surrounded by houses from the typical colors ligurian lean against each other among the close carrugi.
The road stops in the square where the rocks over the sea are the so-called spiaggioni, pristine beaches.
Tellaro is linked to the legend of a huge octopus that approached the harbor ringing the bells of the church for alerting people to the Saracens. It is said however that the real danger was represented by the Gallo d'Arenzano pirate and that this Marco Arzellino, call on the church steeple, addormentatosi caused the ringing due to the rope that was tied to the leg.