Portofino is a beautiful, roundly shaped seaside village with pastel houses lining the shore of the seaport. Portofino has shops, eating places, coffee shops, and luxury hotels. Portofino is where luxury, convenience, beauty, and an unsurpassed quality of life can be encountered.

Providing a peculiar blend of fishing traditions and high society, this colorful seaside town is home to a number of known actors and creative people. You’ll often discover yachts belonging to the high society set tied up alongside little fishing boats in the bay.

Portofino is very minute and its colorfully painted harbor village has become a favorite stop-off point for the yachting high society. This calm village has streets that conduct up from the harbor where you can explore costly boutiques, souvenir shops and general stores. Portofino is in particular famous for representations of the views and sights of the Piazzetta and marine life.

Portofino secures its visitors a fame life style. If you desire to enjoy a bird’s-eye view, we hint you see the Church of San Giorgio from where you can experience the harbor, the Roman Portus Delphini, and the rich palette of characteristic houses.

For a memorable tour we advise you walk or have the ferry boat to the Abbey of San Fruttuoso, a site preserved by the National Trust for Italy. The complex is placed in a marvelous bird’s-eye place, in a deep inlet in the dented coastline of the Promontory, and you may visit it any time of the year – get the emotions of pilgrims following in the steps of 14th century monks.

Portofino does not only mean architectural heritage (with examples like the Church of San Martino and the Brown Castle), it it is also about nature and landscapes. Off the Portofino headland, in fact, a Sea Reserve is divided into three areas: the first one is included in the creek called Cala dell’Oro; the second one, stretching from cape Punta del Faro to cape Punta Chiappa, – where you can go through a variety of sea fans, red coral, and the pretty sea fauna; and the third, an immense undersea meadow of Posidonia. You can swim in the blue sea or enjoy a diving session to find the Mohawk Deer wreck, and then visit the green Park of the Mount of Portofino, with over 700 different plant life species.

Portofino has the nearest airport to it Genoa, served only to flights to United Kingdom by Ryanair from Stansted. Alternatively, Alitalia flies from Heathrow via Milan; some flights from Manchester are offered via Paris. For other flights you must go in Turin or Milan. Portofino is very much a goal for a day trip due to its size and comparatively high prices. It can be fully explored in a a couple of hours and its comfortable size broods acquaintance promptly.

Portofino can be attained by car or taxi (about $50 each way) from Genoa, but negotiate the transportation in advance. Ask the taxi driver to conduct you to the main square, Piazza Martiri dell’Olivetta.