15 Castles for sale in Liguria

The Italian Riviera's coastline is dramatic and narrow — villages built into cliffs between the Ligurian Alps and the Mediterranean, with almost no flat land to build on, which is precisely what makes coastal Liguria some of the most expensive real estate per square metre in Italy.

Move a few kilometres inland into the Ligurian hills and that scarcity eases considerably; the trade-off for a lower price is losing direct sea access, though the hill towns keep the same stone-built, terraced-terrain character that defines the region's coast.