In the ancient maps the extreme western side of the port of Camogli was already called, for the horrific sight from the high, Hell's Rock: a steep and sharp reef casting straight down from the narrow path that joined Camogli  to the near city of Recco. 

Continuously throwing down detritus between the stones emerging on the surface of the water, to the reef basement there  was gone forming one smoothed dry yard.

Slowly, with the time and the aid of the man the shipyard were realized, of which there was absolute necessity. 

Still today the yard is called Hell:  if a camogliese citizen sends you INTO hell, he wants that you'll go in the yard;  if it sends you TO hell, that's another thing at all...

Some years after this picture the small rocky hill up to the road for Recco is smoothed in order to make a public square (1912) that will be called, on the spirit of the events of this year, Tripoli Square (now officially Don Minzoni Square, even if no one knows it with this name).

The building up to the center of the picture is the Camogli's Civic Hospital.

Inaugurated some thirty  years before, it were built and maintained with the generosity of the Shipowners and the bequests of the camogliese citizens.

At this time the Nuns of the above Convent of Saint Prospero were the nurses and caretakers who with tireless abnegation cured the sick ones.

After the Reform of the Social Security the State seized this Community property and with his direct management fucked up the complex, now closed and sadly spoiled.