Camogli 

One of the more representative Ligurian maritime villages, it is divided into medieval quarters (Isola, Prato, Porto, Oratorio, Pineto), even though ruins of an ancient Roman villa have been found, connected to the gentilitial Camullius, after whom some researchers believe the name of the town derives. The history of Camogli is closely connected to that of the Ligurian and international sea trade (it was the “town of the thousand white sails”).
Among the more representative monuments: the Santa Maria dell’Assunta Basilica, the Dragonara Castle, also known as Castel Dragone (where a modern museum of “virtual” memory is located), the Santi Prospero and Caterina Oratory, the Boschetto Sanctuary, in the cloister of which you can admire a collection of votive paintings with mostly maritime themes.
As a matter of interest the community Theatre, the Nicolò Cuneo library, the Archaeological Museum, as well as the Fish Festival every second Sunday of May.

San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte

San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte is a small village, which developed around the abbey. It also includes the nearby “La Cheta” or “Case del Mulino” area located above the cove to the east of the Seno di San Fruttuoso, that was a cluster of fishermens’ houses once and where the buildings still preserve their ancient maritime structures. San Fruttuoso is considered a tourist and recreational resort for its art, history, nature and environment, as you can see from the many restaurants and the crowd on the small beaches in the summer season. There are many and very interesting legends about the village and the monastery of San Fruttuoso, whose origins are still studied nowadays. They are certainly very old because her the buildings date back to the 2^nd and 3^rd centuries AD. Thanks to the F.A.I. (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano) or Italian Environment Fund to whom Orietta Pogson Doria Pamphili donated the monument, it is now possible to visit the church, the bell-tower, the cloister (where you can find the remains of ancient constructions and there are concerts every year from mid July to mid August), the abbey where you can find the graves of the Doria family, documents, exhibitions and a small museum with material collected from the excavations, besides the 16^th century Torre Doria. You have to pay an entrance fee to visit this complex, which has been restored as closely as possible to how it was in the 16^th century.
The visiting hours can be asked at this phone number: (0039) 0185-772703.

Portofino

Portofino was once a fishermen’s village, but is now an elite tourist centre. With its coloured and decorated houses facing the cove, this sea village is still unaltered and well integrated in the surrounding environment. Portofino is the “Portus Delphini” that Pliny mentions in his texts, and is known from time immemorial.Monuments: the 14^th century gothic Santa Maria Assunta Oratory with its beautiful slate portal dated 1555; the 12^th century Lombard Romanic ancient San Martino parish church totally renovated during the 19^th century.You can walk in the small inland of Portofino towards the Niasca valley, along a path that starts from Villa Beatrice, on Caieca point. This path goes to the valley parallel to that of the Fondaco, where there is Portofino, as far as the Sant’Antonio hermitage and, further on, through the olive groves between Olmi and San Sebastiano. Seawards, instead, you can walk along the many routes inside the village, or visit the San Giorgio peninsula, the southern point of the Promontory that closes the Portofino cove, easily walking for half an hour along interesting routes through small lanes and stairways. First you go up to San Giorgio church, along the road that has the same name. The original 12^th century building was razed by the bombs during the Second World War, but the new church built in 1950 still preserves the relics of the saint. Opposite the church yard there’s a false fortress, San Giorgio Castle, that in fact is a private villa built at the end of 19^th century probably on the ruins of on ancient lazaretto for the sailors’ quarantine.
The path passes by many villas surrounded by gardens, pinewoods and olive groves. You can see the fascinating Brown Castle on the left, built on an old fortress between 1554 and 1557 by the Genoese Republic for military use, and developed with many changes and renovations among the following centuries. From 1815 it isn’t a military building anymore; now it belongs to the municipality of Portofino. The route towards the point of Portofino, or Capo point, at the end of the San Giorgio peninsula, runs soon below its top (98 m) where the ruins of the Castelletto are located, that controlled both sides of the coast, and reaches the ex-fortress Olivetta, where twenty partisans were shot by the fascists on 2^nd December 1944 during the War of Liberation. The typically paved path then runs through a very pleasant settlement towards the lighthouse, where you find the Madonnina del Capo below and you can enjoy a beautiful view that embraces all the open sea between the Tigullio and Capo Mele.

Santa Margherita Ligure

Santa Margherita Ligure is one of the more distant pedestrian entrances from the heart of the Park. In fact, it is located where the coast meets the Promontory of Portofino to the north-west, but it’s easy to reach by car, train, bus and boat. This area, already existing in the Roman age, has developed parallel to the coast, along valleys and hills that slope down into its inlets. Santa Margherita Ligure, formed by the Pescino, Corte and Ghiaia quarters, is a much appreciated tourist centre, and is particularly full of villas, churches and oratories: the baroque Nostra Signora dell’Addolorata Oratory, built in the 14^th century, the 16^th century Villa Durazzo, the most important building of this town from an architectural point of view surrounded by a marvellous public park, the baroque San Giacomo di Corte Church, the Sant’Erasmo Oratory that hosts many sailor’s “ex-voto” (thanks to the Lord or the Virgin Mary), the 16^th century castle, the Cappuccini Church, the very ancient Santa Margherita di Antiochia Parrish Church and the San Siro Church, where you can respectively find the Madonna del Suffragio Oratory (built in 1523) and the 15^th century Santi Bernardo e Lucia Martiri Oratory.