While gripping the latest rains in Italian Riviera and Portofino these days, there were spells towards evening that have given splendid sunset on a flat sea rich in color pastel shades, small gozzi departing for fishing, and the special effects sky over the sea.

The sun begins to decline and thus the shadows, come to life at every mention, is the color shades of yellow, red and the dell’azzurro.

We recommend wonderful walks from Santa Margherita Ligure along the road leading to Portofino. Until Paraggi are virtually suspended over the sea. Bring water with you. If you have a dog, there is a beach reserved for their own shortly after the Regina Elena Hotel. There is fresh water available.

We recommend you always dry your little friends.

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From the foundation of the first church of San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte to the apogee of the Abbey

When one speaks of San Fruttuoso with someone who knows this splendid locality on the promontory of Portofino, few are aware that the complete name of the nuclear abbey of this little village is San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte. Capodimonte explains the name; San Fruttuoso explains the legend which we will briefly relate.

Arriving from Spain, the priests Giustino and Procopio of Terragona wanted to reach the coast of Liguria and bring the bones of San Fruttuoso, the archbishop of Braga and founder of monasteries in Spain and Portugal. He would later be mart yered in 262.

A strong tempest surprised them in the area of Portofino and it was here that an angel of the Lord appeared to Giustino and promised to bring him to safety in a narrow’avine in the cliffs and from which he would chase away a pestiferous dragon. The priests would then have to construct a church there among the rocks by a gushing spring.
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Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino until the formation of the Kingdom of Italy

From here on the history of Santa Margherita Ligure (see photo below) and Portofino revolves around the story of the families and their relationship with the parishes. There were always animosities and parochialism was never stronger than in this part of Liguria.

Between Portofino and Nozarego, Santa Margherita Ligure, San Giacomo and San Siro, and Rapallo there was tremendous competition with regard to the treasures that their respective churches possessed and the magnificence of the processions that were sponsored: in Santa Margherita the paintings of Bernardo Castello and the De Ferraris, in Nozarego the paintings of Cambiaso and the Crucifix of Maragliano, in San Giacomo the frescoes of Nicolò Barabino. etc.

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