Croisières passant par Santa Margherita Ligure

The resort town of Santa Margherita Ligure is ideally situated about half-way between Genoa to the northwest and the famed fishing villages of Cinque Terre to the southeast. Santa Margherita itself was an original archetype of the Italian Riviera resort, its Grand Hotels catering to the wishes of the rich and famous (think Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh) who flocked here in the mid-20th century. Still a busy resort, it has yielded pride of place to other nearby seaside towns like Portofino, with which it shares a small peninsula, and Rapallo to the north.