Portofino is a small Italian city located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The city crowded round its small harbor is considered to be among the most beautiful Mediterranean ports, and is a popular tourist destination. In the early 20th century, first British, then German tourist began to visit Portofino, which they reached by horse and cart from Santa Margherita Ligure. Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923) was one of the more famous Englishmen to maintain a villa at Portofino. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor honeymooned at the Hotel Splendido, and years later Richard Burton proposed to Elizabeth Taylor. Rex Harrison had a villa high on the terraced slopes. Eventually more expatriates built expensive vacation houses, and by 1950 tourism had supplanted fishing as the city's chief industry, and the waterfront was a continuous ring of waterside restaurants and cafés.
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