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Rapallo

Leave Parma and head west to the Liguria Seacoast.  After a Panoramic Guided Tour of Rapallo with its palm-line esplanade, take a short ferry ride to Portofino, the most exclusive Italian harbor and resort crammed with luxurious yachts. 

Portofino

Lace Museum

After lunch, return to Rapallo, which you may recognize as the 1954 film location of the Barefoot Contessa.   Visit the celebrated Rapallo Lace Museum, housed in the summer residence of the historic Genoese family Spinola.  The museum collection consists of over 1,400 rare and precious hand-made laces dating back from the 16th to the 20th century with some award-winning pieces and approximately 5,000 lace patterns and drawings. 

Rapallo

 

 

 

 
 
 

Breakfast and Overnight in Parma

 
 
 
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