The image depicts the view from the small "piazzetta" (place) out of the "Oratorio di San Pietro" (St. Peter's oratory), a little XVII century church on top of the "Parasio" hill, the old town center of Porto Maurizio, on the Ligurian sea, Italy.

The name "Parasio" comes from the Latin word "Palatium" (palace), the name of an old fortress now disappeared.

The particular cylindrical shape of the small bell tower of the church is due to its original scope: it was a windmill, made to guarantee supply of food to the town inhabitants during the frequent sieges that the community had to bear in the past centuries.