Portofino Traditional Cache
kazuma: Il proprietario non ha effettuato alcuna manutenzione sul cache da lunghissimo tempo, e non risulta essere un utente attivo. Inoltre il cache non risulta essere più presente.
Il cache viene archiviato.
The owner didn't take any maintenance action since long time and he/she is not an active user. In addition the cache has been reported missing.
The cache is archived.
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The Pirate Barbanera has arrived in this small harbor invaded by restaurateurs and designers. No one has resisted the landing and I planted my flag on the dock of the promontory.
Il Pirata Barbanera è sbarcato in questo porticiolo invaso da ristoratori e stilisti. Nessuno ha opposto resistenza allo sbarco e ho piantato la mia bandiera sul molo di questo promontorio.
Portofino (Ligurian: Portofin) is a small Italian fishing village, comune 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. The town is closely associated with Paraggi Beach, which is a few minutes up the coast. Other nearby beaches include Camogli, Chiavari, Lavagna, and Sestri Levante.
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.
Portofino Bay.The village is mentioned in a diploma from 986 by Adelaide of Italy, which assigned it to the nearby Abbey of San Fruttoso di Capodimonte. In 1171, together with the neighbouring Santa Margherita Ligure, it was included in Rapallo's commune jurisdiction. After 1229 it was part of the Republic of Genoa. The town'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 the Republic of Genoa.
In 1409 Portofino was sold to the Republic of Florence by Charles VI of France, but when the latter was ousted from Genoa the Florentine gave it back. In the 15th century it was a fief of families such as the Fieschi, Spinola, Adorno and Doria.
In 1815 it became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia and, from 1861, of the unified Kingdom of Italy.
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 was one of the more famous Englishmen to maintain a villa at Portofino. 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 restaurants and cafés.
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