Santa Margherita Ligure

Santa Margherita Ligure is a commune in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian vicinity Liguria, positioned about 35 kilometers southeast of Genoa, in the Tigullio conventional location.Sixteenth-century fort. Santa Margherita Ligure borders the subsequent municipalities: Camogli, Portofino, and Rapallo. His presence of a Roman agreement has not been actually demonstrated. The burgh, called Pescino, was devastated by Rothari in 641 and through the Saracens in the tenth century. Later it changed into a fief of the Fieschi circle of relatives till 1229, when it turned into received with the aid of the Republic of Genoa. In 1432 it changed into attacked by the fleet of Venice and in 1549, collectively through Rapallo, by using that of Turgut.

In 1813, beneath the Napoleonic domination, the two burghs of Pescino and Corte had been unified as Porto Napoleone. Two years later it was annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia because the commune of Santa Margherita Ligure. In 1861 it has become a part of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. Connected by means of rail in the twentieth century, Santa Margherita became a renowned vacationer motel after 2nd World War. It has a port, used for both tourism and fishing sports. Part of comune territory is covered inside the Regional Natural Park of Portofino.