Площад пред енорийската църква, Арма ди Таджа

A sagrato is the paved forecourt before a church, and in the Ligurian summer it becomes something else again: an open-air auditorium with the parish façade for a backdrop and the sea a few streets away. Arma di Taggia, the coastal quarter of the old inland town of Taggia, uses its own in exactly this way, for concerts and operatic evenings under the night sky in the weeks when the resort is full.