After the magical night of the Red Devils in the Champions League, the English football star Wayne Rooney, will marry on June 14, the historic companion Coleen McLoughlin in Santa Margherita Ligure to the Cervara’s Monastery.

The choice of the couple is motivated by beautiful monastery and the chance to live this event in privacy with friends.

Little room for the many gossiper in search of hiding places to immortalize the best couple. Provided broad security cordon for two days of festivities on board a Mega Yacht – by Vogue Yachts Company – for only 50 guests anchored in the bay.

The couple celebrated civil ceremony in Cheshire the week prior to this event.

The two future spouses, also chronicles the mundane and on the brink of the precipice fast and loose with continuous, open space and all promise eternal love.

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The Monastery of Cervara, found halfway between Santa Margherita and Portofino, is an important complex that fivm the middle ages received many illustrious guests who were travelling along the Dolphin coast. The name of the monastery derives from the Cervara family who were the proprietors of a good deal of land in the area.

Interesting to note is the etymology of the name: Cervara derives from “cervaria” with the variations “servaria” “sylvaria” from “sarvea” which is a dialect word for the modern Italian word “selva” which means a thick forest. The forests and the presence of the sea rendered this solitary spot all but inaccessable and thus particularly suitable for prayer and meditation.

The old church and the belltower were constructed in 1361 by the archbishop of Genoa, Guido Scetten, a gentile poetic spirit who, while visiting Portofino wished that the church of his dreams could be built on the highest peak in the vicinity called “Cervara”. Here he would be able to come to rejuvenate his soul much taxed by the numerous cares of his ministery.

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We include the Villa Spinola, foto above, among the grandiose residences of the Portofino Coast even though technically from an admini strative standpoint it is not a part of it being instead in the city of Rapallo.

However, as I have already noted elsewhere, it was constructed right on point where Portofino Coast begins and thus I have elected to consider it. The point of Pagana has always constituted the border between Rapallo and the western part of the gulf.

In the sisteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the danger of incursions by pirates, whether from the Barbari Coast, France, or Spain, was at its highest, the Republic furnished the coast with a series of strategically positioned guard towers. They were also used to block any unauthorized landings not checked for contraband.

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The villa Costa Lo Faro, in a floral style whose tower is visible from almost every part of Santa Margherita Ligure, is a “historic villa” that constructed in 1898 by Giuseppe Costa.

The design is by Antonio Revelli, same architect who realized the facade the sanctuary of Mon tallegro. In addition to the original owners who lit there at first before moving to Genoa, fir villa has been the home of a number important names in Roman nobilit. Among these were the Centurione family, and then from 1912 to 1917, the princess Colonna di Stiliano, who was president of the Italian Red Cross.

Due to the financial problems of Giuseppe Costa, the villa was sold to the Lo Faro brothers in 1922. Their father, a musician of Sicilian origin, came to Genoa for the festivities celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America in 1892.

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To quote the words of the supreme Italian lyric poet who enthusiastically speaks of Cervara and of the coast of Portofino seems a bit too erudite, but it is absolutely not possible to forget Francesco Petrarca among the illustrious guests on the Portofino Bay.

Guido Scetten, the archbishop of Genoa had invited him.

This humanist & scholar who as I have already noted had the spirit of a poet and had decided to spend most of his time in this wonderful place (cara requies mea) and had even elected to be buried there.

Petrarca and Scetten had both studied in Avignone. So when the archbishop invited the poet to the abbey the invitation was accepted and it was here that Petrarca may have found the inspiration for some verses of his poem in Latin “Africa“.

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There have been so many pontiffs with the name Gregory that it requires either a prodigious memory or a profound knowledge of the history of the Popes to remember the respective historic periods and the events that they refer to.

Of the sixteen Popes with this name (the first four being saints) Gregory XI, Pietro Roger of Beufort, whom we shall discuss here, was quite important in the history of the church.

We are in the 60′s of the fourteenth century: The situation in France is catastrophic as a result of the One Hundred Years War and of the struggles between the Armagnacchi – faithful to the Duke of Orléans, and the Borgognoni – anglophiles.

In Italy the situation was dramatic as the rights of the church were being contested by local potentates.

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Yesterday in Portofino with 3 friends and a body guard to protect they, is arrived Beyoncè, the divine former solist of the Destiny Child group, today absolute the Pop Star of the world.

Perhaps the most famous and talented voice of the last decade.

In miniskirt clear glasses dark, he walked up the bottom of the Molo Umberto I °. Full of smiles, beautiful, in a very reserved, it was left to sweep by unique emotions Portofino offers every day. Beyoncè lived in a beautiful yacht of our group Vogue Yachts.

In his World tour, where he presented the latest album B-Day, on the evening of Tokyo in Japan, explained where he found a source to write his hit song in: Irreplaceable.

“I brand a new album and the name is B-Day, and this name is dedicated to that moment in which young girls become women. Inside there is a new song that I want to dedicate to all the incredible women who are in the world and that sometimes need to be encouraged. So don’t be afraid, be strong, snap your fingers, it’s time to open a new page of your life. ”

Portofino World, a world apart.

Taken as an assault beaks Bastia, Portofino for some sections this week, has again experienced the thrill particularly full of passion and emotions that made it unique worldwide.

Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster, former top model, this morning, they said yes.

Expected and consecrated to Portofino, changed form of the game at the last minute and chose Villa Durazzo in Santa Margherita Ligure to join in the ceremony. Perhaps the weather has changed the programs provided for Cervara instead.

The fact is that dozens of photographers in search of unique shots, were waiting for the famous rock star in its third “yes”.

Portofino disappointed, however, remains the focus of the various tabloid “pink.” Lucky media throughout the area. The daughter of a singer for example yesterday, in Portofino with friends sang, danced and ate in Piazzetta.

Cost? 15 thousand euro.

The Friends star arrived in private jet, guests the hotel between Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure. The total cost of about a 1 million euro. Now the two are married on board the beautiful yacht Lady Ann Magee along with friends and are expected this evening at dinner in Portofino, before you leave for the honeymoon

Portofino World, a world apart.