La Cervara - Portofino

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You are always happy to reach the Cervara. It is the same feeling you get at the end of a long trip, when you finally arrive at the place you’ve been dreaming of.
As you travel up the road to the Abbey, you’re overcome by a stirring feeling. The ancient Mediterranean woods are full of scents and rushing sounds. The holm-oak is the undisputed king of the bush, with Aleppo pine, mastic tree, viburnum, strawberry tree and the other trees forming the crown. Each tree has cut out a little niche where it blossoms and thrives.

All around, you feel the teeming life of large and small creatures that include the rare, splendid Charaxes Jasius butterfly, the squawking hoopoe, and a multitude of birds you perceive by sound, but not by sight. You spot the tracks of the fox and the unmistakable, somewhat unnerving trail of the wild boar, and you discover squirrels running along the branches in search of pine cones.

Entering the Abbey is equivalent to participating in a ritual or event, since the voices that sang psalms there for centuries still hover in the air. How many people have visited the Abbey! Thoughtful men came here wishing to find a secure, safe place to reorder their thoughts and their lives. At other times, the place was a refuge for knights fleeing from implacable enemies.

Seven centuries of history sedately convey the balanced design and the grandeur of the architecture and the gardens. The Cervara - on the road to Portofino - is the ideal destination for those in search of peace and quiet. When you cross the threshold of the Cervara complex, the cloister is there to welcome and protect you.
 
The sheltered feeling you get is not limited to the cloister, but also radiates from a simple, straightforward Italian-style garden whose shapes and colours are in no way overdone. Its charm is in the surrounding panorama rather than in the trees of the garden itself. The spectacle includes the sea and the detailed contour of a coast that touches Rapallo, Zoagli e Chiavari before reaching Sestri Levante. Hills with silvery olive trees and cliffs that descend steeply down to the sea are part of a scene you could gaze at forever.

It is the ideal place for commemorating and celebrating anniversaries, private parties, gala evenings, afternoons accompanied by music, and weddings - the events that make your life important. The Cervara organisation stands ready to help you experience the unmatched enchantment of this centuries-old monastery. 

The Cervara organisation is at your service to help you plan your event, whatever it may be. We will welcome your guests, plan times of work and play, offer refreshments, provide breakfasts and lunches, and select musical accompaniment. Working with you, we will also supervise the layout of dining room furnishings and table decorations.
Nothing will be left to chance, nothing will be left out, and everything will be specially designed for you and your needs.

The unique, varied design of the Cervara complex allows you to hold different portions of an event in different places or rooms, all accompanied by the incomparable setting of the centuries-old monastery.
A welcome in the cloister, an aperitif in the Wisteria Court or on the Portofino Terrace, dinner in the extraordinary succession of dining halls, dancing in the Gardenia Garden or in the Hall of the Emperors: these
are just a few examples of how the flexibility of the facility assures that your event will be custom-tailored to meet your specific requirements.

 How to reach The Cervara complex To reach the Cervara Abbey, follow the road signs for Portofino - Santa Margherita Ligure. At the Santa Margherita exit, take the Lungomare Rossetti coast road toward Portofino. After you pass the Covo di Nord Est entertainment complex on the sea near Capo Nord, you’ll find a small uphill road (Via Cervara) that leads directly to the large square in front of the Abbey. Brown signs labelled “Monumenti nazionali” (national monuments) will help you find the road and reach the Cervara.