Comments on: Portovenere

By: Liz Chessor

Liz Chessor — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:14:44 +0000

I have included Portovenere on our itinerary for September this year and from what I read we will certainly not be disappointed. It has been 30 years since I last travelled to Italy. We are flying into Rome, on to Florence and then Portovenere and through to Venice. I appreciate that it is a much worn tourist route but with only 5 weeks leave we have to limit ourselves. Any thoughts would be much valued.

By: Gian Banchero

Gian Banchero — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:15:40 +0000

This village is NOT to be missed… Dining at the waterside restaurants is what everyone hopes Italy to be with the good seafood, music, very brilliant sunshine, architecture, balmy air, etc., etc.

By: Giuseppa

Giuseppa — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:40:50 +0000

Ho la fortuna di visitarla ogni anno.Bella,colorata,piena di vita.Piu’ la visito, piu la voglio visitare.Immense sono le sue bellezze e non per niente il nome “Golfo dei Poeti”per la Liguria.

By: Donna Benedetti Trupiano

Donna Benedetti Trupiano — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:15:17 +0000

Love Portovenere very much; have visited many times as cousins of my dad live nearby. I love all of Liguria and all of the hill towns.

By: Stanley Crabb

Stanley Crabb — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:32:05 +0000

All of this is so lovely, and I would not want to spoil it for anyone. But my memory about this region of Italy with its gorgeous shore-line and tiny villages that spill into the Sea is that of “Il Bracco.” With my family, we drove the Bracco with another car of Italian friends, going south to La Spezia. If you click on the “Satelite” view, click out to about half-way on the enlargement scale and you can make our a lightish curvey line (of sorts) across the mountain range from above Genova to Spezia. If I’m not mistaken, that road was named “Il Bracco,” supposedly for a mountian or range of same. Anyway, it was undoubtedly the most trecherous road I had/have ever driven on. A thousand curves, heights reaching hundreds of meters and then down — up and down and around — so much that I, the driver of our 600 got car sick! I never do that. But, the road was famous especially among truck drivers, precisely because “that’s the way it was.” Does anyone else who reads these lines remember that road? It was vacation time. I think it took at least three hours to go about 70 kms. or so. Prof. Guerrino Rossi, the driver of the other car, along with his family — all were going camping — had warned me about this road, but it exceeded his warnings. WOW. Never again…but it was the state N-S road at that time (1960s).

By: Valorie

Valorie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:35:27 +0000

Love this!!! I was just thinking I should forward this to Megan at Bella Vita Italia and then I scroll to the bottom and she is the author! We must get to Liguria our next time in Italy. Grazie mille for a beautiful note! Valorie from Colorado

By: anne

anne — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:18:58 +0000

Definitely not one to be missed and we did not miss it last year on our fabulous holiday to Liguria… we had a coffee on the front, sitting near the sea. then walked to the other side and up to the castle..and then down again to a park…loved it.