Portovenere is one of Italian bathing localities more notes.
The Roman already knew this village that must its name to presence
of a tempio dedicated to the goddess of the beauty.
In the course of the Middle Ages it was feudo of the Getlteman of
Vezzano in order then to pass to Genoa, in XII the century.
It was seriously damaged in 1494, year in which was attacked from the fleet
of Alfonso of Aragon.
The Castrum Vetus, first true city nucleus today practically scomparso,
it occupied the zone in proximity of the Church of S.Pietro.
It was Genoa that in 1139 promoted the construction of the zone placed to sides of it puts
into effect it them Via Cappellini, preoccupandosi moreover to strengthen the defense of
village by means of construction of a new one castle and of an imposing encircled of walls.
And it seems has been just the 1139 official year of submission of Portovenere to
Genova even if a plate, conserved on an ancient door of walls, filler the written
Colony Jenuensis 1113.
The peculiarity of the houses that they show oneself on the port is their shape high and grip,
the facades are painted with colors many forts (perlopiù red and yellow); nearly all are of Romanesque type even if,
towards the extremity western of the country, you of they are more ancient, with arched to sixth acute one, of from Tuscany type.
The rooms generally are equipped of two incomes,
one towards the beach, for the boats, and one that it gives on the road,
the carruggio that parallel to the coast runs, but to one higher quota.
Their typical structure slowly introduces three premises for every of which,
that one centers them, lacking in windows. The constructions are leaned the
une to the others also for defensive reasons.
Inside of the village cross-sectional roads do not exist, single some sottoportici
call “understood them to you”, that, with steep ladders, they connect the road to the port
or the beach. Just at the extreme Peter heads western of the country is placed the
Church of S.; Romanesque-gotica draft of one construction of built up from Liguria type
on the rests of the ancient one tempio of Venere. From a splendid panorama can here be enjoyed,
from the loggetta Romanesque can be observed the first feature of coast towards Five Lands,
while from the income to the gulf and the island of forehead are controlled.
The shape of S.Pietro remembers a great ship in stone and is the result of several
is made of construction. Of front age to YOU century, around to the Church extended a monastero;
in the external part all the typical characters of from Liguria gotico observe themselves
like, as an example, the vestment to bands in marble black and white. On it svetta the tower
set up on left the Presbiteriale Nail head.
