The best places of the Mediterranean -> Destinations

    Portofino is a small town (520 inhabitants) and a famous resort in northwest Italy on the Mediterranean coast at the foot of the Ligurian Apennines. Portofino is a favorite destination for an aristocratic and intellectual circles of Germany and the United Britanieincade the end of the nineteenth century.      North of town, on top of a hill overlooking the Portofino Bay, lies the medieval monastery of San Girolamo (sec.XIII) with one of ...