If you are looking for a place that can well be termed as a combination of fishing settlement and a beach resort, you have Camogli to visit. Located in Liguria in North West Italy, between Portofino and Genoa, on Golfo Paradiso at Riviera di Levante, Camogli is indeed a place that can very well be termed as a bit of a fishing settlement and a bit of a beach resort. Or perhaps, it is more of a fishing city than a so called beach resort. From whatever angle you perceive, the place is indeed a paradise on earth, with all its beauty and impeccably maintained serenity that has only added to the greatness of the place.
Rationally speaking, the place has nothing ‘great’ in terms of grandeur to offer. Just a few ordinary shopping streets, a few blocks of restaurants and street sides cafes and bars, an ordinary railway station, a bus stop, an inquiry and information office complete its kitty of offerings. Yet, all you have to do is to get into the very life of the place, breathe the essence of the city, and fathom the greatness of its simplicity in order to gauge the beauty of the place in the truest sense. In fact, the simplicity and the straight forwardness that are the USPs of the city and there lies of uniqueness.
The city offers a tottering cliff at one end, with an enormous wooden cape that is crowned with a doomed church that is almost inaccessible because of the sheer height or altitude of its location. At the other end, lies the contemporary church of the city, which stands atop a stony beach, and is backed by a fortification that is ruined to its peril. A further stroll will take you to an apparently never-ending arch of the Ligurian Coast, which meanders into the misty horizon, towards to the direction of Genoa, and perhaps far beyond, completing the beauty of the great Italian Riviera.
The city can very well be termed as a miniature of hilly village, that is lashed with pristine water and turquoise beach, and overlooked by some hilly terrains, and that is what adds to the greatness of the lace. With a few houses all clustered into one place, a few narrow lanes and by lanes, a vaulted age old passageway and steps, the city is a place where time seems to have stopped – finally to take some breath.
One of the most lustrous attractions of the place is its harbor, with its yachts moored only to be hired by the tourists who throng this place to spend some quiet moments during the summer days. Then there are those bars that will offer you some drinks and some delicious meals. The meals are not that cheap, though you will surely find fish very fresh.
Getting to Camogli is not that tough. It is connected by a railway that runs from LaSpezia and Genoa, though it is not that all trains halt in Camogli. Apart from the rail service, there is a bus service that ferry passengers from Santa Margherita and Rapallo. Then there is boat services that are operated during the summer time.
For those who will choose Camogli for an overnight stay, there are two boutique hotels that will offer traditional, yet modest accommodation.
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