Word: fruttuoso
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...maps for a bracing walk along the shore. A short path, 20 minutes each way, will take you past the church and castle of San Giorgio to the local lighthouse at the tip of a promontory. A longer hike brings you to the 10th century Abbey of San Fruttuoso. It's two hours each way--but worth every minute for the spectacular vistas...
...best place to mount it, the planners decided, was 56 feet below the surface of the bay of San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofmo. There the waters were almost crystal-clear, so that the statue would be visible from above. Many a sea faring man had lost his life there - nearby the Genoese lost a bloody naval battle with the Venetians in 1431 and the British frigate Croesus went down...
Last week 3,000 people gathered in a flotilla of small boats in the bay of San Fruttuoso. After Mass, the giant statue, its 900-lb. bulk suspended from a naval crane, was lowered into the sea. Slowly the water mounted, inch by inch, until at last it swirled over the suppliant hands. Said a message from Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri: "Where men, the pioneers of new roads, are beginning to descend, our Lord and Redeemer descends today...
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