La Cervara - Abbazia di San Girolamo al Monte di Portofino

Information

Opening hours
Season 2025
From March to October, the first and third Sunday of the month
Visiting hours are 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Opening times
March: 2, 16
April: 6, 20
May: 4, 18
June: 1, 22*
July: 6, 20*
August: 3, 17
September: 21
October: 5, 19

(*) visiting hours at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Entrance
Adults: € 15.00
Concessions: € 12.00

PRIVATE VISITS: € 25.00
Upon reservation with a minimum of 6 people during the week and a minimum of 12 people on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Ticket: Euro 25 per person.

GUIDED TOURS FOR GROUPS: € 360.00
For a minimum of 30 people it is possible to visit the Abbey every day of the year accompanied by accredited guides in English, German, Spanish and French. Reservation required.

Contact us
Lungomare Rossetti
Via Cervara, 10
16038 S. Margherita Ligure (GE)

T. +39 0185 293139

www.cervara.it

History

The first inhabitants of the place were a few Benedictine monks who in 1361 founded a monastery there and dedicated it to Saint Girolamo.
What was once the vegetable garden of the monks is today the only Italian-style Garden in Liguria overlooking the sea. The box hedges (Buxus Sempervirens L.), skilfully pruned in the shape of geometric designs, according to the best traditions of topiare, surround the marble seventeenth century fountain portraying a putto. The plants against the walls or along the borders are an integral part of the design of the Monumental Garden together with the grape vines on the antique pergolas. In the flower-beds, a quantity of flower species, diverse in order to guarantee blossoming throughout the year, alternate with plants with coloured foliage.
Among the species, the brightly coloured strelitzias, specimens of citrus fruit trees, the exotic bougainvillea, the singular erythrine (Erythrina Crista-galli) and again, pine trees, an ancient false pepper tree and the very rare pink capers (Capparis Spinosa L.). The quiet courtyard shaded by a centuries- old wisteria (Wisteria Sinesis L.) and the pergola of the upper garden, whose pillars are covered in Rhynchospermum, or false jasmine (Rhynchospermum jasminoides L.), provide charming, perfumed – even if short-lasting – bloomings.
The strategic position makes it an ideal venue for organizing exclusive events or meetings which just require privacy and intimacy.
Our guests have the privilege of choosing whether to stay in one of the bedrooms of the Convento, in the ancient Torre Saracena or to isolate themselves in the Suite that once hosted Francis I, King of France.

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl

Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl