Specification
Bedrooms:
3
Bathrooms:
4
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Total floors:
4
Year Built:
Baroque
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Leasing Terms
Min Tenancy
1 Night
Guests
Up To 6 People
Costs
Bills
Included
Features
Location
Description
Holiday House in Italy, Santa Margherita Ligure, Cinque Terre, Close to Portofino
Holiday House in Italy, Santa Margherita Ligure, Cinque Terre, Close to Portofino
Cosy small apartment house “Laura”, 4 storeys, from the 20th century.
500 m from the centre of Santa Margherita, 50 m from the sea, road to cross. Private: patio. In the house: central heating system. Motor access to the house. Stepped path (5 steps) to the house.
Parking on the premises, public car park at 200 m, extra. Shop, restaurant, bar 400 m, railway station “Santa Margherita” 1 km, sandy beach 50 m.
Golf course 5 km.
Nearby attractions: Portofino 5 km, Rapallo 5 km. 4-room apartment 90 m2, on the ground floor. Comfortable furnishings: large living/dining room with TV and radio.
Exit to the garden. 2 small rooms, without wardrobe, each room with 2 beds. 1 double bedroom with air conditioning. Small, open kitchen in the entrance (4 hot plates, oven, dishwasher, microwave, freezer). Bath/bidet/WC, shower, sep. WC. Heating. Heating available only from 30.10. to 30.03. Garden 80 m2. Terrace furniture. Marvellous view of the sea and the bay. Facilities: washing machine. Internet (WiFi). The apartment has carpet floors. The 2 double bedrooms have windows facing an internal corridor.
Location
Santa Margherita Ligure is a fair-sized town in Liguria, Italy; large enough not to seem smothered by the tourism which has been an integral part of the town’s existence for decades. The harbour mainly caters for smart yachts, but the town is also home to a small fishing fleet which can be seen unloading opposite the businesslike morning fishmarket. There are also wide ranges of hotels and restaurants, and a selection of good daytrips to make if you get tired of pottering along the laidback seafront.
Bars, cafes, gelaterie and also restaurants are spread along the seafront and there are also a few along the main quay – these latter are rather more expensive but the view is lively. If you prefer to picnic, there is a good-sized Coop supermarket in Corso Matteotti which is generally open until 8pm.
The low hill dominating the waterfront is an interesting place to explore. Behind the small Castello and the severely striped Chiesa dei Frati Cappuccini are intriguing overgrown passageways prowled by semi-wild cats. Further up the slope is the fancier church of San Giacomo in Corte, which contains among other sights a creepily-illuminated Madonna in a rocky niche. Next door, the grand seventeenth-century Villa Durazzo is a monument to the faded glory of the Riviera. The garden terraces are a public park and a pleasant place to sit. There is also a ‘Coffee House’ and although the Villa is used as a study centre, you can catch glimpses of frescoed interiors. The villa featured also in the extended wedding arrangements of footballer Wayne Rooney, and sometimes hosts concerts and other public events.
Good daytrips from ‘Santa’ include Portofino, the picturesque San Fruttuoso monastery, the resorts of Camogli and Rapallo, Genoa and the Cinque Terre (around an hour by train, or an all-day boat excursion).
Ferries to Portofino and also other destinations depart from Piazza Martiri della Liberta. The Santa Margherita Ligure Tourist Information Office is located at Via XXV Aprile, 2/B.
