Portofino and San Fruttuoso

Salt-bright light skims the pastel façades while mooring lines creak on bronze rings. In Portofino, you look up to 16th‑century Castello Brown on its headland, then take a short boat hop to San Fruttuoso, where the Christ of the Abyss has stood 17 meters below the surface since 1954. Between the coves of the Portofino Marine Protected Area, traces of the Doria family linger. Lunch on Calata Marconi facing the yachts, a quick espresso at Bar Mariuccia, then a coastal route back via Santa Margherita Ligure and the arcades of Rapallo.

Your day starts at your Genoa hotel with flexible pick‑up and a chilled Mercedes at your disposal: you sightsee and taste, your driver handles traffic and timing. Based in Genoa, your private chauffeur fine‑tunes stops to the weather, prebooks the boat to San Fruttuoso from Portofino (about 25–30 minutes) and aligns entry times for Castello Brown. It’s roughly 35 km from Genoa to Santa Margherita Ligure, then 5 km more to Portofino; in the afternoon, a gelato pause in Camogli or a stroll on Rapallo’s passeggiata fits in smoothly.