CURIOSITIES
In 1995 Portofino was the set for Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders “Beyond the clouds” movie, while in 2002 some episodes of the soap opera "Beautiful" were shot here.
It is said that in Portofino still lives the so called “Curse of Tutankhamun”, because of Lord Carnarvon, the discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb, that lived in the village, in Villa Altachiara.
Indeed some years later his discovery he died because a mosquito bite and in the same house, in 2001, Italian Countess Francesca Vacca Agusta, owner of Villa Altachiara, tragically died falling on the underlying sea cliffs.