Portofino Marine Protected Area
The Marine Protected Area that safeguards the seabed around the Portofino promontory, between Camogli and Santa Margherita Ligure. Home to some of the best-preserved Posidonia meadows in the Ligurian Sea.
Golfo del Tigullio
Punta Chiappa — the rocky headland on the Golfo Paradiso
Punta Chiappa is a slender tongue of rock that juts some fifty metres into the open sea of the Golfo Paradiso, on the western flank of the Portofino promontory, in the municipality of Camogli. Lying barely above the waterline and polished smooth by the waves, it is one of those places that stay with you: … Read more
San Rocco di Camogli — the panoramic church above the Golfo Paradiso
San Rocco di Camogli is a small hillside hamlet just south of Camogli, looking out over the Golfo Paradiso on the western flank of the Portofino promontory. The heart of the village is the parish church of San Rocco, a nineteenth-century building best known for its terraced churchyard: a natural balcony suspended above the sea, … Read more
Santa Margherita – Portofino Trail
The trail from Santa Margherita to Portofino, through the natural park One of the Tigullio’s best-loved walks connects Santa Margherita Ligure to Portofino across the natural park of the Portofino Promontory. A panoramic walk through Mediterranean scrub with views over the Gulf of Tigullio, the pedestrian alternative to the coastal road linking the two villages. … Read more
Villa Durazzo-Centurione
Villa Durazzo (or Villa Durazzo-Centurione) is the historic mansion that overlooks Santa Margherita Ligure from above: a seventeenth-century palace facing the old town and the sea, surrounded by a large Italian-style park with its characteristic risseu pathways, the Ligurian mosaic of black and white pebbles. Today it is a municipal museum complex, open year-round, where … Read more
Camogli-San Fruttuoso Trail
The trail from Camogli to San Fruttuoso, on foot through the Portofino Park One of Liguria’s best-loved hikes connects Camogli to the abbey of San Fruttuoso across the Portofino Promontory. A panoramic route through maritime pines, Mediterranean scrub and sheer sea views, ending with the descent to the bay otherwise reachable only by sea. The … Read more
Torre Doria (San Fruttuoso)
On the headland of Puntetta, standing guard over the tiny cove of San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte, a sixteenth-century tower still keeps watch over the sea. The Torre Doria was raised in 1562 to defend the hamlet, the abbey and its precious freshwater spring from the Barbary corsairs who in those years were ravaging the coasts … Read more
Auditorium delle Clarisse — Rapallo
The Auditorium delle Clarisse is the main cultural venue in Rapallo, created inside the former convent of the Poor Clares, a seventeenth-century religious complex that stands at the heart of this town on the Tigullio coast. What for more than two centuries was the church of a cloistered convent is today a theatre hall seating … Read more
Teatro Sociale di Camogli — Historic Theatre
The Teatro Sociale di Camogli is the historic theatre of the seaside town overlooking the Golfo Paradiso, a small Italian-style gem inaugurated on 30 September 1876 with a memorable production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Ernani. Its horseshoe-shaped hall, with four tiers of boxes and a gallery, was commissioned and funded by some sixty families of the … Read more
Divo Martino Church (San Martino) — Portofino
Perched on the hillside above Portofino’s famous little square and harbour, the Church of Divo Martino — better known as the Church of San Martino and dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours — is the village’s historic parish church. Its origins reach deep into the Middle Ages: institutional sources record the parish community as existing … Read more
