Rapallo

Rapallo is a municipality inside the Metropolitan City of Genoa, located within the Liguria region of northern Italy. As of 2017 it counts 29,778 inhabitants. It is situated at the Ligurian Sea coast, at the Tigullio Gulf, among Portofino and Chivalry. The weather is slight. Many of the villas are built in the hills that upward thrust right away behind the metropolis, shielding them from sturdy northern winds. The Rapallo vicinity is covered in the Parco Natural Regional di Portofino, encompassing the territory of six Ligurian communes. The 1ST settlement dates probably from the eighth century BC, even though the findings have no longer clarified if it becomes Etruscan or Greek.

Conquered by using the Lombards in 643, the village of Rapallo became included inside the county of Genoa underneath Charlemagne. The name of the town appears for the first time in a document from 964. In 1203 the Podestà of Rapallo become created, and the metropolis became a Genoese dominion in 1229, last underneath that aegis till the Napoleonic Wars. Galleys from Rapallo took component to the Battle of Meloria of 1284. On five September 1494, it became captured with the aid of the Aragonese, however 3 days later 2,500 Swiss troops ousted them. During the sixteenth century it turned into attacked and sacked through the Ottomans and Barbary pirates. To help guard the village in opposition to such attacks a castle becomes built on the seafront. In 1608 Rapallo became made right into a Capitaneato of its own, as a part of the Republic of Genoa.