Many wonderful words have been written on the Gulf of Tigullio by novelists, poets and plain travellers enchanted by these places where tradition and nature blend with high society. It is not a case if Portofino has always hosted important personalities that have made and continue to make history. Once these were popes, sovereigns, noblewomen; today they are movie stars, famous names of literature and of music, big names of fashion. Behind the stage of the well-known boutiques and of billionaire yachts, the Mediterranean scrub of the Nature Park stretches out luxuriant and unspoilt, crossed by many paths where still today the tracks of an ancient peasant civilisation are preserved.
After Portofino, along the bay of Tigullio, Lavagna, Chiavari, Zoagli, Rapallo and Santa Margherita follow. These charming maritime villages, even if different one from the other, have in common the uniqueness of the Ligurian landscape that is strongly present in the art, culture, environment, cuisine and folklore of each single place.