“Aligned like jewels along the rocky coast of Tigullio, Rapallo, S. Margherita and Portofino are of an equal, incomparable beauty. One sees small and graceful villa nested in the green hills, orange trees along the narrow streets and everywhere a wild and overwhelming flowering of bougainvillea and of scarlet geraniums. ...
By car: Highway A12 exit Rapallo. By train: Rapallo rail station. By plane: Rapallo is 30Km far from the Genoa Airport. Milan – Malpensa and Milan – Linate are 250/300 km far.
According to the local tradition the Madonna appeared July 2 nd 1557 to a farmer, Giovanni Chichizola, native of the fraction Canevale. One year later, in 1558, they began the jobs of building of the sanctuary in the exact place pointed out by the Madonna.
