San Rocco - San Nicolo'

This path is certainly one of the classical trek routes for families and groups, because of tis beauties and fame, not only concerning the Portofino Promontory, but the whole Liguria Region, even though it doesn’t have its own trail sign. More information about>>

San Rocco - Fornelli

The itinerary, that starts from the San Rocco parish Church yard, develops along the western side of Mt. Portofino and is mostly easy, panoramic and leads to other routes. The easy and flat mule track runs through the Poggio and Mortola areas and becomes a tortuous path departing from the houses, and reaches the sloping ridge from Mt. Portofino to the Semaforo Nuovo area. More information about>>

San Rocco - Gaixella

The route runs through the north-west side of Mt. Portofino and gradually passes from cultivated areas to abandoned fields and the woods. It also pleasantly links the small hamlet of San Rocco to the Gaixella – Portofino Vetta area, crossroad of many pedestrian itineraries. More information about>>

San Nicolo' - Punta Chiappa

The small village of San Nicolò has a little ancient Romanic church and from its churchyard you can enjoy a good view of the underlying coastline and the Golfo Paradiso. From here you can also comfortably observe the activity of the historical “tonnarella” (tunny fishing net) starting from late spring. More information about>>

Portofino Vetta - Gaixella

Portofino Vetta is a panoramic area, where a very exclusive restaurant – hotel stands, the Portofino Kulm, that you also can reach walking along the two kilometre paved road starting in front of the beginning of this itinerary. More information about>>

Fornelli - Toca

After the crossroads near Fornelli, that also goes to Batterie and to the Semaforo Nuovo, and you fisrt enter in a cluster-pine wood with the main elements of the Mediterranean maquis underneath. On the left of the path you can find the rare spatulate saxifrage, on a vertical face of the valley. More information about>>

Fornelli - Batterie

From Fornelli the path moderately rises and falls as you enter a mixed wood due to the development of natural vegetation grown under a rather thin cluster-pine wood.
Holm-oak, mannas-ash, arbutus trees and many elements of the Mediterranean maquis form a thick vegetable curtain opening with panoramic views over the Golfo Paradiso. More information about>>

Batterie - San Fruttuoso

The first old military building on a rock spur, that you find, is known as “Gruppu Marsu” in the past and “Belvedere” nowadays on the ridge which goes to Punta Chiappa. From this natural balcony you can enjoy a wonderful view of the western side of the Promontory and the entire “Riviera di Ponente”. More information about>>

Pietre Strette - Porcile

The area of Pietre Strette is the pedestrian heart of the Park; from here you can reach Santa Margherita, Gave, Paraggi, Portofino Mare, Base 0, san Fruttuoso, Toca, Mt. Tocco and the Semaforo Vecchio, or you can rest and take shelter in the picnic area that has recently been provided with drinking water and comprehensive signposts. More information about>>

Porcile - Paradiso

Here, near a small private house you rich a point where the path, signed with three red dots, departs towards Porcile pass and from there to Semaforo Vecchio (two red triangles tail sign). More information about>>

Pietre Strette - Toca

The area of Pietre Strette is the pedestrian heart of the Park; from here you can reach Santa Margherita, Gave, Paraggi, Portofino Mare, Base 0, san Fruttuoso, Toca, Mt. Tocco and the Semaforo Vecchio, or you can rest and take shelter in the picnic area that has recently been provided with drinking water and comprehensive signposts. More information about>>

Toca - Semaforo Nuovo

This short itinerary takes you to the Semaforo Nuovo area, where you can enjoy a particularly wide panorama. The view embraces almost the whole Ligurian gulf, in the west you can see the Apuan Alps, in good visibility conditions, whereas Cala dell’Oro and Punta Chiappa can be meticulously explored nearby. More information about>>

Toca - Paradiso

The path is easy and runs through the west side of Mt. Portofino, rising slightly at the beginning and then, after a short upper-level part, descending from Paradiso to the end. Here you can easily admire the acrobatics of the peregrine falcon, the icon of the Park, a murderous bird of prey whose diet consist of birds of passage and small sparrows hiding in the maquis. More information about>>

Paradiso - Gaixella

Near a small private house in Paradiso you rich a point where the path, signed with three red dots, departs towards Porcile pass and from there to Semaforo Vecchio (two red triangles tail sign). More information about>>

Gaixella - Pietre Strette

Along the very first rise you can see the contact surface between the limestone of Mt. Antola and the Portofino conglomerate, and the fresh limestone blocks, dug during the reconstruction works of the route, that are fractured and have been greatly strained in the past, when the conglomerate overlapped this formation.More information about>>

Gaixella - Semaforo Vecchio

This itinerary runs along a large and easy rising pathway, through the wood that covers the northern side of the Promontory as far as its summit, at the maximum height, permitting some naturalistic observations. More information about>>

Pietre Strette - Caselle

The area of Pietre Strette is the pedestrian heart of the Park; from here you can reach Santa Margherita, Gave, Paraggi, Portofino Mare, Base 0, san Fruttuoso, Toca, Mt. Tocco and the Semaforo Vecchio, or you can rest and take shelter in the picnic area that has recently been provided with drinking water and comprehensive signposts. More information about>>

Pietre Strette - Bocche

From Pietre Strette you continue along a slight ascent near Castelluccio. In the herbaceous layer there are many species that pleasantly bloom in spring: primula, anemone, aquilegia, scilla, the very showy lily of San Giovanni, small orchids, snowdrop and dog’s tooth. More information about>>

Pietre Strette - Felciara

At Pietre Strette, the path follows the main ridge and goes through the chestnut wood as far as the first rest area, where you  can have a look at the opposite maquis especially. A little ahead, the steep hillside plunge deeply into the sea and dominate the whole landscape. More information about>>

Felciara - Ghidelli

You soon reach the Felciara area where you find another rest area. Now you are walking on the ridge that ends seawards with Punta Carega, and where the vegetation is more open you can see both its slopes. More information about>>

Bocche - Crocetta

You soon go down to Bocche, where there are a picnic area, a small fountain and signposts; from here you can reach the southern or western hillsides. More information about>>

Crocetta - Olmi

You reach Crocetta through a less shady cluster-pine wood with tall but unfortunately ill trees. A few hundred meters downhill there is another crossroads, you go straight on instead you reach the Olmi area. More information about>>

Caselle - San Fruttuoso

The water of five springs is collected in this area, called Caselle, and subsequently carried to San Fruttuoso by a small aqueduct. Further on, you start to see terraces all around; the morphology of the hillsides has been changed here by man for farming. More information about>>

Ghidelli - Base 0

In the first part of the ridge, that gently slopes down, you find the Ghidelli area, crossroads towards Crocetta. The path zigzags down the ridge, and from Piano del Capo you can enjoy many views through the Mediterranean vegetation. More information about>>

San Fruttuoso - Base 0

This itinerary is very panoramic and starts from San Fruttuoso towards the eastern ridge of its valley, with marvellous Mediterranean settlements that you pass by one after the other.
The itinerary starts walking on the beach, passing by the historic arcade of the Abbey and reaching the churchyard in front of the austere church. More information about>>

Santa Margherita Ligure - Nozarego

You rise along the signed Salita Montebello,  the road gradually becomes a path offering more and more panoramic views while going uphill. More information about>>

Mulini - Olmi

You are at Mulino del Gassetta. The Park decide to take care of it, that belongs to the municipalty of Santa Margherita, and renovate even its milling equipment, turning it into a cultural point. More information about>>

Olmi - Portofino

Arrived in Olmi several detours allow to reach San Fruttuoso di Camogli, Pietre Strette and Portofino Vetta or Portofino Mare. Following the way to Portofino Mare, among pines and the Medterranean vegetation, some houses and a small chapel appear in the hamlet of San Sebastiano. More information about>>

Gave - Mulini

Gave is a crossroad of many path. The path signed with a red cross, that becomes a mule track a bit further on, rises along the shady and thick holm oak wood dominated by huge stone-pine trees; this formation has grown indisturbated in the uncultivated conglomerate rocks. More information about>>

Mulini - Paraggi

The mule track reaches the Paraggi area running along the Acqua Viva valley through a fresh shady wood. The name of “Valle dei Mulini”, where this itinerary starts, is because of the twenty-three watermills and oil mills that you can find along this route and it leads one to think how important this valley was for the manufacture of agricultural products. More information about>>

Portofino - Lighthouse

From Portofino’s small square, going up to the peninsula, it is easy to reach in a few minutes the courtyard in front of the Church of San Giorgio from where it is possible to admire a breathtaking view. More information about>>