The 1934 Funivia Up to Montallegro, Rapallo

Cable cars traveling above a sunlit hillside town overlooking a rocky coastline and bay at sunset/Sunlight glints on the water as gondolas glide along wires above the town.

Rapallo does not try to be Portofino. It is bigger, a little louder, and more useful. Trains stop here without much fuss. People buy shoes on Thursday. The gulf opens wide enough that you can stand on the lungomare and see three towns at once without feeling you paid for a postcard. What keeps me … Read more