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PORTOFINO TOURISM


WELCOME TO PORTOFINO, ITALY

Discover the charm of Portofino: A paradise of natural beauty and timeless
elegance

BOOK YOUR HOTEL

In the heart of the Italian Riviera, on the Ligurian Sea, lies a coastal town
with a tranquil crescent harbor with a hill of olive groves and small vineyards
in its background. It’s called Portofino.



Portofino is featured on many postal cards, and the town itself is just as
pictured: beautiful in shape and color, its harbor cradled by a piazza which in
turn is rimmed by tiny pastel houses, yellow, green, and blue.

Above it, the climbing green of the hillside, the villas are barely visible
through the growth.

Portofino’s birth is hidden amid the Roman era when it was known by the name
given it by Plinius, the historian – Portus Delphini, Dolphin’s Harbor.

Was it the large fish in the cove or the fish-like shape of its promontory? That
has never been clear.

The Benedictines established a monastery in the 1400s on the site of Hotel
Splendido, only to abandon it in the 1500s after repeated raids by pirates. The
building remained an empty ruin until the 1800s when a titled European family
restored it as a summer villa. In the 1850s, British aristocrats began making
Portofino popular, believing that relics of St. George, England’s patron saint,
rested in the parish church.

Only 500 people live in Portofino – fishing families, shop owners, people with
hotels or restaurants, and a few who work in Genoa. The elderly are perched on
the doorsteps, many women doing lacework, the men staring out at the sea.

Portofino’s most unforgettable view is reached by climbing several long, easy
steps from the harbor to the Fort of St. George, built in the mid-1500s. There,
you can get the place virtually to yourself.

Climbing further onto a circular parapet, you encounter a spectacular view that
might have been a miniature movie set. Very far below are towers, steeples,
villas, and piazzas, extending in front of them like a stage, the calm blue
harbor, and the sea.

The small picturesque town of Portofino was always a magnet for celebrities.
English actor Rex Harrison owned a villa here while Richard Burton proposed to
Elizabeth Taylor in Portofino’s Hotel Splendido. More recently, Avril Lavigne
spent her honeymoon here, and Kylie Minogue regularly visits it.

The best times to visit Portofino are during spring and autumn. During summer,
the small town can get a bit overcrowded, especially during weekends while
during winter the weather might get too cold.



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