Via dei Tubi

The Via dei Tubi follows the line of Camogli's historic aqueduct across the Portofino promontory. Its name recalls the pipes that carried drinking water to the coastal town, making the path a surviving trace of water-supply engineering.

Why it matters

The route reveals an aspect of the promontory's history distinct from its villages and religious buildings: the infrastructure needed to sustain a coastal community. Its alignment follows the terrain between ridge and sea, linking engineering choices with the physical landscape.

What to notice

Rock-cut galleries and contouring sections mark the passage of the former conduit. The galleries and exposed rock give the alignment a strongly constructed character within the vegetation. Openings towards the sea place this technical work within the wider landscape of the Golfo Paradiso.

Context and history

The old aqueduct supplied Camogli and was also connected with the water cistern serving the laundry at the Batterie complex. The surviving alignment therefore relates civilian water provision to another phase of use on the promontory. Its cultural interest lies in that infrastructure history and its adaptation to a difficult coastal slope.