Weddings in Portofino
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within easy reach using the Genoa-Leghorn motorway A12 (exit at Rapallo
toll gate, 4 km), are on the Gulf of Tigullio, a little over 20 minutes
from Genoa. They offer: a first-class harbour resort, a yacht club, a
water skiing and sailing school, a diving school, boat trips, night
clubs and discotheques, an 18-hole golf course within 4 km. Genoa is
just 30 km away, with the Christopher Columbus international airport, as
well as its special attractions, including: the Old Port; the Doges’
palaces of the old Maritime Republic, the greatest historical centre in
Europe; and the Aquarium, the largest in Europe and ranked second in the
world.
Portofino is an old fishermen’s village connected to
Santa Margherita Ligure by a magnificent coast road, considered today to
be one of the most beautiful in the world. The village, concentrated
around a natural harbour, retains its original features. The climate is
temperate in summer and mild in winter. It is an ideal resort, in all
seasons, for anyone wanting calm and rest in a setting that is unique in
the world.
History Portofino. The harbour of the dolphins
Phoenicians, Greeks or Romans? It is not certain to
which of the three
peoples the establishment of Portofino should be attributed, but perhaps
the events of the little village go back even further, as it would be
difficult to deny the existence of human settlements from protohistoric
times in such a favourable natural shelter from the winds and sea. There
is also a margin of doubt concerning the origin of the name, but most
people support the origin Portus Delphini, the harbour of the dolphins,
the version put forward by Pliny in the third book of the Naturalis
Historia. The Itinerarium Maritimum, a navigation manual of the third
century AD, also refers to Portus Delphini among the Ligurian harbours,
alongside Genoa, Vado, Albenga and Porto Maurizio.
In the Early Middle Ages, Portofino,
having become a
colony at the time of Rome’s domination, ended up under the jurisdiction
of the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. In 986 it was given by
Adelaide, Empress and Queen of Italy, to the Cassinese Benedictine order
of San Fruttuoso which, in 1171, transferred it to the consuls of
Rapallo for the sum of 170 Genoese lire. After French domination, it
passed to the Florentines and then, in 1425, was occupied by Tommaso
Campo Fregoso. Following a long string of disputes, in which the
Fieschis, Sforzas and Dorias were protagonists, the village was
permanently acquired by the Republic of Genoa, to whose events its
history in the period leading up to 1814 is linked. In 1815, together
with the Republic of Genoa, the “pearl of the world” was assigned to the
Kingdom of Sardinia by the Congress of Vienna.
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