During a sortie on the riviera of Liguria, in the Cinque Terre, the couple bumps into the huge silhouette of the Giant: its building, 14 mt. high, dates back to 1910, in reinforced concrete and iron. It represented Neptune, before the abandonement after the Great War (due to the death of the commissioner, a person from Monterosso who had found fortune in Argentina) brought neglect onto the work and the villa it belonged to. It was Villa Pastine, built on the ruins of the "doganieri"'s house mentioned by poet Eugenio Montale. The bombs of World War II destroyed almost entirely the house, maiming Neptune of the arms, a leg and of the symolic trident.
During a sortie on the riviera of Liguria, in the Cinque Terre, the couple bumps into the huge silhouette of the Giant: its building, 14 mt. high, dates back to 1910, in reinforced concrete and iron. It represented Neptune, before the abandonement after the Great War (due to the death of the commissioner, a person from Monterosso who had found fortune in Argentina) brought neglect onto the work and the villa it belonged to. It was Villa Pastine, built on the ruins of the "doganieri"'s house mentioned by poet Eugenio Montale. The bombs of World War II destroyed almost entirely the house, maiming Neptune of the arms, a leg and of the symolic trident.