You can read my full guide to the best towns to add to your Italian Riviera itinerary in this article: www.eternal-expat.com/2022/04/26/italian-riviera-cities-ligurian-riviera/
My grandparents went on holiday back in the 50s and to this day my family still goes to the same place. The town is called Cavi Borgo (it’s 30min from Rapallo) Almost every year, it feels like coming home when I’m there. We know generations and my son is the fourth generation of my family who is loving it there. Cavi Borgo is not touristy and that makes it the best place! And yes that whole area is beautiful! I’m from the Netherlands by they way😁
STONES versus SAND ! Completely agree. Favorite stony beaches: Loreto, Baja Sur ( once a year with friends who live there) the Hippie Beach east of Akrotiri, Southern end of Thera/Santorini; and now, apparently, where YOU are. This was great. I send your videos to EVERYONE as THE way to travel. Light and breezy, and learn some language everywhere. Grazie mille.
Thank you so much, Blake! It means a lot to me that you share the videos with other people and that you enjoy them so much! Loreto is a great beach spot - especially those islands off of Loreto!
Laura! I'm so happy you are spending some great time in Rapallo and Santa Margherita! I live in Rapallo, it's an amazing place! And you've found probably the best season of the year to travel here, less crowdy and the weather is just warm and good enough! Just a little thing, the place between Santa Margherita and Rapallo is not called "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana" ;-) Have you been to Paraggi? Half way between Santa Margherita and Portofino! Have a great great time in our region :-)
thank you for this commentary. I am planning a trip to Rapallo / 5 Terre in September and these are good tips to have in mind. Will visit Paraggi for sure!
Ciao Andrea, i went to paraggi, is tricky tog te there. I saw it the first time back on my very first trip, in the bus, from marguetire to portofino..and I was amazed. So I made a promised I will stop one day. I found you have to buy a bus with that stop..there is n parking..so from portofino, we bought the bus ticket...went to the beach in May, June, was cold, empty, spiaghia pública. Aferre that we went to eat to that pescatore restaurant very know by locals in sta margueritea
Hi Laura, thanks so much for this detailed video on the Italian Riviera. Travelling with small children we couldn't settle on the right location. Stumbled upon your video and the explanations you gave on the various towns were very crucial in helping to decide on Rapallo as our base to explore the region from. We have just returned with many fantastic memories. grazie mille
I could sit in a waterfront cafe in Rapallo all day........oh almost did!! lol My route on first trip to Italy was fly into Milan, drive to Genoa, Rapallo, Pisa, Tuscan vineyard stay, Sienna, Rome.
Sounds like a lovely trip! I haven't been to Siena, would you recommend it for a day trip? I'll be in Florence later this year and it looks not too far from there!
Did you all find the car is needed in rapallo? When I went to camogli, I parked it there, and pretty much left it parked, till I went to chivari, lavagna, cogorno, that is up in the mountains...
Sestri levante is close to Rapallo, has the golfi dei poeti, where the fábulas of ".......where Arirton..beati full place to see, is depisterà in many post caras...
I like having a car. It shortens travel, you travel on your schedule not a trains and you can go were no other transportation can go. It also was handy when an earthquake hit central Italy and we could just move on with no drama.
Thank you, Laura, for your beautiful informative videos. I've watched your Genoa video and have decided to stay in Rapallo from Genoa. Looks great, I will be there in mid-September. I have been to Monterosso five years ago but wouldn't mind a quick trip back. Rapallo looks like a good base to explore from!
Hi Laura, thanks for talking about my town, but I have to make a small note: it's not "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana". "Bagni Pagana" is the name of one of the local bathing establishments, not the bay...
Thanks Laura cinque terre is a place I would love to visit with my wife and rapolla and the others you showed look lovely too now I know some things about the area I might just book up next year much appreciated
Hi Laura thanks to visit Rapallo and our beautiful places near…. Next time i suggest you to try Sole 1936 Retaurant near the Castello of Rapallo they serve amazing fish dishes and you can also try aperitivo with a lot of fish tapas! Best regards
Hello Laura, I will be in Portofino next month (October), thanks for the tips regarding the restaurants in Rapallo near the train station. I'm hoping the weather is favorable.
hi we have been watching your travels in genoa going to rapallo going to portofino very informative and fun to watch. may we ask hows the water temperature in april when you have visited? we will be visiting genoa this coming april with our children thank you
I stayed in st marguerita, ten y a go. Probably right, I saw expensive stores, and people with money. I was not one of them, we stayed in a nice placed owned by a lady, a big room with bathroom outside , but a lavatory inside, was nice. But I will check rápalo next time
Hi, thank you very much for your videos about Italy, they are fantastic :) I am wondering what kind of suitcase do you use while travelling on Riviera? If you use public transport then it is better to have not very big bag for travelling. But on the other hand if you travel many days, then you need many clothes :) I also plan to travel in Italy by public transport(trains), and I am thinking what kind of laggage to take on a trip :)
Hi, I'm thinking of going to Genoa and some of the coastal towns next late-April. Just guessing from the video but what was the weather like? Low 10-20 celsius? I heard some towns are really dead in the winter and some restaurants/cafes close so I'm hoping April would be a good time to visit before the peak summer season.
@8:50 I hear you... I actually prefer pebbled beach than sand.... lived in Hawaii and I actually prefer the Mediterranean... Monterosso Al Mare is my fave... :)
Hi Laura, we loved your video so much we decided to include these in our upcoming Italy trip :). we just wanted to know if it is possible to cover Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino and Rapallo in a day from Miln? we shall be catching the 8.15 train from milan . we are 30s couple with our 3 yr old son. Also if feasible how do we travel between portofino and rapallo amd then Santa Margherita?
I go to SML most summers and its mental.. Checkout Paraggi beach for lunch - 3 km up the road, probably the best lunch spot on the riviera. If you have time, make your way to Lerici - the place to be without tourists.
I stayed in that place, awawsome deal, close to train station..there is a restaurant own by pescatores, fishing peopl, sea food, delicious, locals go there, is cheap...can’t remember name, found it on let’s go Italy guide...is knows by the locals
It depends on preference, I hate sand, "unfortunately" where I live (Rome) it's almost only sand (there are some places with rocks but are not so nice), not to mention the crowdedness. However, there is plenty of choice in Italy, there are the super-equipped sandy beaches on the Adriatic Riviera (Riccione, Rimini etc), the (always sandy) more "wild" beaches going down to south (I recommend Salento and Gargano in Puglia, which also have rocks). Instead in the part of the Tyrrhenian Sea (that in video), there are the (sandy) beaches in Tuscany, from Viareggio and Forte Dei Marmi (cities in some ways similar to Riccione and Rimini, although with less young people, I dare say are more for families), to go south then to Lazio, Campania and Calabria (all regions with sand but also with rocks, as the famous Amalfi Coast). Of course we cannot forget the islands, the two big (Sardinia and Sicily, which have wonderful places for all tastes) and all the small islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, my recommendation being Ponza (Lazio), of course Ischia and the wonderful Capri (best to go there in the low season, June or September), last but no least the Aeolian and the Egadi (in Sicily). Ok, finished my publicity to my country (I don't even know why I wrote this long comment with my laughable English honestly), congratulations on the video, I hope you enjoyed your stay in Italy (we have many flaws but the country is gorgeous), ciao.
@@laura-bronner Hemingway loves this valley, great mushrooms, wine, food, wolves ,deer and Savage horses, for a great tipically meals the best Is " rondanina" in rondanina Town
Nice video! It's a pity though that, like you said, "Riviera" makes one think about the French Riviera (that the French call côte d'Azur) rather than about "The Riviera", in Liguria (that the French themselves call this way. source: th-cam.com/video/02YhfJZiHEA/w-d-xo.html, this guy makes really good videos to learn French and more). Also because "the Riviera" is split in riviera di Levante and di Ponente, and they are quite different from one another.
It was very nice, it didn't look hot enough to be in a bathing suit on the gravel. Nice background music. They shouldn't care if you pronounce words like in Spanish. In Italy, every 30 minutes you travel they likely change to a different dialect.
Exactly!!!! There is not pagana, but a village so called San Michele of Pagana. No Maurizio? Then there is St Moritz in Switzerland. No mychele? There is the tower of Pagana's San Michele. J have just to say another important thing to Laura. In Rapallo there is a beautiful river. Yes, yes yes, that is an amazing river. First to get the harbour, you have to manage on the river. In few words: three little steps in the angle: the tobacco angle. In any case Laura is very fast and she is magically on the top of Portofino. What about that old song J love Portofino?
You can read my full guide to the best towns to add to your Italian Riviera itinerary in this article: www.eternal-expat.com/2022/04/26/italian-riviera-cities-ligurian-riviera/
My grandparents went on holiday back in the 50s and to this day my family still goes to the same place. The town is called Cavi Borgo (it’s 30min from Rapallo) Almost every year, it feels like coming home when I’m there. We know generations and my son is the fourth generation of my family who is loving it there.
Cavi Borgo is not touristy and that makes it the best place!
And yes that whole area is beautiful!
I’m from the Netherlands by they way😁
STONES versus SAND ! Completely agree. Favorite stony beaches: Loreto, Baja Sur ( once a year with friends who live there) the Hippie Beach east of Akrotiri, Southern end of Thera/Santorini; and now, apparently, where YOU are. This was great. I send your videos to EVERYONE as THE way to travel. Light and breezy, and learn some language everywhere. Grazie mille.
Thank you so much, Blake! It means a lot to me that you share the videos with other people and that you enjoy them so much! Loreto is a great beach spot - especially those islands off of Loreto!
Thank you so much for the beautiful video!! I can’t wait to see the beautiful places!
Thank you. Exactly the info/comparison I was looking for. Great, safe travels to you!
love your way to share feelings and impress; beautiful and nice tour guide!
Loving your videos, Laura. Keep ‘em coming 😊
Wow! This is a beautiful series of experience! My goodness, keep it comin!
So glad you are enjoying the videos! Several more to come in this series!!
We have been here on our way to Portofino, very beautiful and perfect weather, thanks for posting this, love Italy. ❤
Yet another fantastic video! Keep up the great work. Thanks.
Laura! I'm so happy you are spending some great time in Rapallo and Santa Margherita! I live in Rapallo, it's an amazing place! And you've found probably the best season of the year to travel here, less crowdy and the weather is just warm and good enough!
Just a little thing, the place between Santa Margherita and Rapallo is not called "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana" ;-)
Have you been to Paraggi? Half way between Santa Margherita and Portofino!
Have a great great time in our region :-)
thank you for this commentary. I am planning a trip to Rapallo / 5 Terre in September and these are good tips to have in mind. Will visit Paraggi for sure!
Ciao Andrea, i went to paraggi, is tricky tog te there. I saw it the first time back on my very first trip, in the bus, from marguetire to portofino..and I was amazed. So I made a promised I will stop one day. I found you have to buy a bus with that stop..there is n parking..so from portofino, we bought the bus ticket...went to the beach in May, June, was cold, empty, spiaghia pública. Aferre that we went to eat to that pescatore restaurant very know by locals in sta margueritea
Your video is soooo good ! Thank you for all the information, it helped me a lot !
Thank you so much for posting this video, what a wonderful place!
Thank you for video. I live in Milan and i have the holydays home in Rapallo. Welcome in italy and see you soon
Thank you so much, so glad you enjoy the videos. Milan and Rapallo, two wonderful places!!
Hi! Rapallo is my favorite city! I’ ve just buied a beautiful house here! Magic is everywhere here!👍🏻
How wonderful! It really is a stunning place! Enjoy :)
Hi Laura, thanks so much for this detailed video on the Italian Riviera.
Travelling with small children we couldn't settle on the right location.
Stumbled upon your video and the explanations you gave on the various towns were very crucial in helping to decide on Rapallo as our base to explore the region from.
We have just returned with many fantastic memories.
grazie mille
That's so wonderful to hear, thank you for taking the time to come back to the video and let me know how much it helped!
RAPALLO ,S.MARCHERITA LIGURE, PORTOFINO 👌🙋♀️🤗❣🥰
Thank you Laura, for bringing me back to Santa Margherita!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment :)
Hi Laura thanks for sharing all this beautiful places on the Italian Riviera! Love the beaches views! Enjoy your travels!
Thanks, Ramon! Glad you are enjoying the videos!!
I love Italy 🇮🇹
Esiste anche la Riviera di Ponente in Liguria, non solo la Riviera di Levante.
I could sit in a waterfront cafe in Rapallo all day........oh almost did!! lol My route on first trip to Italy was fly into Milan, drive to Genoa, Rapallo, Pisa, Tuscan vineyard stay, Sienna, Rome.
Sounds like a lovely trip! I haven't been to Siena, would you recommend it for a day trip? I'll be in Florence later this year and it looks not too far from there!
@@laura-bronner yes the old square with cafes and sometimes street performers is great
Did you all find the car is needed in rapallo? When I went to camogli, I parked it there, and pretty much left it parked, till I went to chivari, lavagna, cogorno, that is up in the mountains...
Sestri levante is close to Rapallo, has the golfi dei poeti, where the fábulas of ".......where Arirton..beati full place to see, is depisterà in many post caras...
I like having a car. It shortens travel, you travel on your schedule not a trains and you can go were no other transportation can go. It also was handy when an earthquake hit central Italy and we could just move on with no drama.
I was there in 1981for 3 weeks when I was in the Navy
Thank you, Laura, for your beautiful informative videos. I've watched your Genoa video and have decided to stay in Rapallo from Genoa. Looks great, I will be there in mid-September. I have been to Monterosso five years ago but wouldn't mind a quick trip back. Rapallo looks like a good base to explore from!
Hi Laura, thanks for talking about my town, but I have to make a small note: it's not "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana". "Bagni Pagana" is the name of one of the local bathing establishments, not the bay...
Thanks for the correction Roberta, sorry about that. What a beautiful place it is!
Thanks Laura cinque terre is a place I would love to visit with my wife and rapolla and the others you showed look lovely too now I know some things about the area I might just book up next year much appreciated
Something in me says this woman is from the Netherlands i heart that because i speak that language and living there
Ciao da Rapallo!😄
The 2 yrs I lived in Rome, SML.
I should have ventured out more.
Ill have to put this on my to do list.
I highly recommend it, it's a beautiful place!
Great series on Italy :) Will you be doing more beyond the Riveria? Thanks from Sydney Australia x
I'll be heading to Bergamo for a bit, but then I'll be back in September to again to explore more :)
@@laura-bronner Awesome! Enjoy your travels!
Very nice vlog 😉👍
we're getting Solar Power☀️ from you!! Grazie for sharing all the happy things!
I love that! So glad that you enjoy the videos and hopefully the sunshine coming through your screen! haha
Hi Laura thanks to visit Rapallo and our beautiful places near….
Next time i suggest you to try Sole 1936 Retaurant near the Castello of Rapallo they serve amazing fish dishes and you can also try aperitivo with a lot of fish tapas!
Best regards
That sounds wonderful! Thank you for the recommendation!
It’s different place , nice river
Hello Laura, I will be in Portofino next month (October), thanks for the tips regarding the restaurants in Rapallo near the train station. I'm hoping the weather is favorable.
The weather should be great in terms of temperatures for hiking! Hope you enjoy it!!
hi we have been watching your travels in genoa going to rapallo going to portofino very informative and fun to watch. may we ask hows the water temperature in april when you have visited? we will be visiting genoa this coming april with our children thank you
I stayed in st marguerita, ten y a go. Probably right, I saw expensive stores, and people with money. I was not one of them, we stayed in a nice placed owned by a lady, a big room with bathroom outside , but a lavatory inside, was nice. But I will check rápalo next time
Hi, thank you very much for your videos about Italy, they are fantastic :) I am wondering what kind of suitcase do you use while travelling on Riviera? If you use public transport then it is better to have not very big bag for travelling. But on the other hand if you travel many days, then you need many clothes :) I also plan to travel in Italy by public transport(trains), and I am thinking what kind of laggage to take on a trip :)
Hi, I'm thinking of going to Genoa and some of the coastal towns next late-April. Just guessing from the video but what was the weather like? Low 10-20 celsius? I heard some towns are really dead in the winter and some restaurants/cafes close so I'm hoping April would be a good time to visit before the peak summer season.
Hi Laura! Greetings from Florence
Hi Luigi! I love Florence!! I'm revisiting for the fourth time later this year!!
@@laura-bronner Check your email, i sent two cookbooks (PDF)
@8:50 I hear you... I actually prefer pebbled beach than sand.... lived in Hawaii and I actually prefer the Mediterranean... Monterosso Al Mare is my fave... :)
Hi Laura, we loved your video so much we decided to include these in our upcoming Italy trip :). we just wanted to know if it is possible to cover Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino and Rapallo in a day from Miln? we shall be catching the 8.15 train from milan . we are 30s couple with our 3 yr old son. Also if feasible how do we travel between portofino and rapallo amd then Santa Margherita?
I go to SML most summers and its mental..
Checkout Paraggi beach for lunch - 3 km up the road, probably the best lunch spot on the riviera.
If you have time, make your way to Lerici - the place to be without tourists.
I will definitely be back to this region of Italy, I'll have to earmark the places you mention when I go back!
@@laura-bronner Brava!
Here is one especially for you:
th-cam.com/video/HiTUqQ9beqw/w-d-xo.html
Hi Laura, did you use your phone to film around the places you visited?
Is rápalo, right there by the train?
Best bakery in Rapallo to have focaccia is "vivaldi"
I stayed in that place, awawsome deal, close to train station..there is a restaurant own by pescatores, fishing peopl, sea food, delicious, locals go there, is cheap...can’t remember name, found it on let’s go Italy guide...is knows by the locals
🥂🥂🥂❤️
Am staying there in July😊I am staying at Hotel Stella...that is my other name Stella😊.
It depends on preference, I hate sand, "unfortunately" where I live (Rome) it's almost only sand (there are some places with rocks but are not so nice), not to mention the crowdedness.
However, there is plenty of choice in Italy, there are the super-equipped sandy beaches on the Adriatic Riviera (Riccione, Rimini etc), the (always sandy) more "wild" beaches going down to south (I recommend Salento and Gargano in Puglia, which also have rocks).
Instead in the part of the Tyrrhenian Sea (that in video), there are the (sandy) beaches in Tuscany, from Viareggio and Forte Dei Marmi (cities in some ways similar to Riccione and Rimini, although with less young people, I dare say are more for families), to go south then to Lazio, Campania and Calabria (all regions with sand but also with rocks, as the famous Amalfi Coast).
Of course we cannot forget the islands, the two big (Sardinia and Sicily, which have wonderful places for all tastes) and all the small islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, my recommendation being Ponza (Lazio), of course Ischia and the wonderful Capri (best to go there in the low season, June or September), last but no least the Aeolian and the Egadi (in Sicily).
Ok, finished my publicity to my country (I don't even know why I wrote this long comment with my laughable English honestly), congratulations on the video, I hope you enjoyed your stay in Italy (we have many flaws but the country is gorgeous), ciao.
Hii! Do you know the exact location at 6:17?
It's right here: goo.gl/maps/8t6igqVxvf4noQyQ6
How much time you spent here in Liguria?
About a week, not enough time, I will definitely be back!!
@@laura-bronner you welcome ^_^
What makes you think we are interested in seeing your face all the time, when you are in such a beautiful place?
Bello vedere la mia liguria grazie ps sei molto carina ciao
You forgot the most important attraction Casa Massone
Visit val Trebbia!
Wow, I just googled it. It looks incredible! I've added it to the list for a future trip back to Italy, thanks for the tip!
@@laura-bronner Hemingway loves this valley, great mushrooms, wine, food, wolves ,deer and Savage horses, for a great tipically meals the best Is " rondanina" in rondanina Town
Nice video!
It's a pity though that, like you said, "Riviera" makes one think about the French Riviera (that the French call côte d'Azur) rather than about "The Riviera", in Liguria (that the French themselves call this way. source: th-cam.com/video/02YhfJZiHEA/w-d-xo.html, this guy makes really good videos to learn French and more).
Also because "the Riviera" is split in riviera di Levante and di Ponente, and they are quite different from one another.
It was very nice, it didn't look hot enough to be in a bathing suit on the gravel. Nice background music. They shouldn't care if you pronounce words like in Spanish. In Italy, every 30 minutes you travel they likely change to a different dialect.
haha yea speaking Spanish comes in very handy in Italy! It certainly didn't feel warm enough for a bathing suit for me either!
It seems bigger than "Come Ugly"....
Parliamo anche della periferia di Rapallo completamente abbandonata alla sporcizia
Cosa c'entra
@@andreairziano8395 purtroppo a Rapallo curano solo quello che vede il turista.C'entra eccome
@@valeriamasla3228 come in tutte le città cara
@@andreairziano8395 già...
How do you stay so slim with all those carbs? 🤣🍕
sorry but these places are known for over 200 years nothing new here ahahah
haha far more than 200 years I'm sure. I never claim to be discovering somewhere new, just somewhere new to me 👍
you look like the women I dated in the Navy. sad ending to that relationship went to sea came back to Norfolk. and I was dump 🥴
Exactly!!!! There is not pagana, but a village so called San Michele of Pagana. No Maurizio? Then there is St Moritz in Switzerland. No mychele? There is the tower of Pagana's San Michele. J have just to say another important thing to Laura. In Rapallo there is a beautiful river. Yes, yes yes, that is an amazing river. First to get the harbour, you have to manage on the river. In few words: three little steps in the angle: the tobacco angle. In any case Laura is very fast and she is magically on the top of Portofino. What about that old song J love Portofino?