Panorama of Portofino taken from Castello Brown

Portofino's small harbour

Portofino is a small Italian fishing village and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town crowded round its small harbour is considered to be among the most beautiful Mediterranean ports. Portofino has even been recreated in stupendous detail around the 'harbor' at Tokyo DisneySea in Chiba, Japan, and to a much lesser extent, the Portofino Bay Resort at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ... Genoa (It. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 238 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 475 pixel, file size: 398 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Portofino Metadata This... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 238 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 475 pixel, file size: 398 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Portofino Metadata This... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1092, 208 KB) Portofino harbor looking right, taken May 2000 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Italian Riviera Portofino User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Places ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1092, 208 KB) Portofino harbor looking right, taken May 2000 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Italian Riviera Portofino User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Places ... Genoa (Genova [] in Italian - Zena [] in Genoese) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ... Liguria and the Italian Riviera Portofino’s small harbour on the Italian Riviera The Italian Rivera ( ) is the narrow coastal strip which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain chain formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Tokyo DisneySea ) is an 176 acre (714,000 m²) theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. ... Nanna Juulsgård Andersen is like a indianerhøvding Taken in December 2004, this picture shows a walkway bridge (right) and the giant studio entrance (back) at Universal Studios Orlando. ... Nickname: Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ...

According to Pliny the Elder, Portofino was founded by the Romans and named Portus Delphini, or Port of the Dolphin, because of the large number of dolphins that inhabited the Tigullian Gulf. The towns's natural harbour supported a fleet of fishing boats, but was somewhat too cramped to provide more than a temporary safe haven for the growing merchant marine of Republic of Genoa during the Middle Ages. Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19th Century portrait. ... Motto Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Roman Empire at its greatest extent. ... Genera See article below. ... A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... The Republic of Genoa, in full the Most Serene Republic of Genoa (known as the Ligurian Republic from 1798 to 1805) was an independent state in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast from ca. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

On August 29, 1954 in the small bay at 17 meters under water the famous statue of Christ of the abyss was placed. This statue was placed to protect fishermen and scuba divers and in memory of Duilio Marcante who was a great friend of Jacques Cousteau.

This bronze statue by the sculptor Guido Galletti represents a benedictory Christ who is looking up towards the sky with open arms as a sign of peace.

This statue intends to remind us how many people have died at sea and how many people have dedicated their lives to the sea. (An identical statue sits in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park off the Florida Keys.) John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is located on Key Largo in Florida, and includes approximately 70 nautical square miles of adjacent Atlantic Ocean waters. ... Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys is an archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. ...

In the late 19th century, first British, then other northern european aristocratic tourists began to visit Portofino, which they reached by horse and cart from Santa Margherita Ligure. Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923) was one of the more famous Englishmen to maintain a villa at Portofino. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor honeymooned at the Hotel Splendido, and years later Richard Burton proposed to Elizabeth Taylor. Rex Harrison had a villa high on the terraced slopes. Eventually more expatriates built expensive vacation houses, and by 1950 tourism had supplanted fishing as the town's chief industry, and the waterfront was a continuous ring of waterside restaurants and cafés. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The peerage title Duke of Windsor was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937 for The Prince Edward, formerly King of the United Kingdom. ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ... For other persons named Elizabeth Taylor, see Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation). ... Sir Reginald Carey Rex Harrison (b. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tourists on Oahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering. ...

Portofino bay

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Points of interest

• Castello Brown

Castello Brown Castello Brown is a house museum located high above the harbor of Portofino, Italy. ...

See also

• The Cervara (La Cervara - Abbazia di San Girolamo al Monte di Portofino)
• Paraggi

The Cervara (La Cervara - Abbazia di San Girolamo al Monte di Portofino) The Cervara dates back to the summer of 1361, when the first stone was laid for a new monastery to be dedicated to Saint Girolamo. ... The speedy deletion of this page is contested. ...

External links

• Portofino travel guide from Wikitravel
• Comune di Portofino Official Site
• Portofino Natural Park
• Portofino Marine Protected Area
• Portofino World Site
• Pictures from Portofino in Polish