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Portofino is a small ItalyItalian city located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The city is considered to be among the most beautiful Mediterranean SeaMediterranean ports, and is a popular tourist destination. Portofino has even been recreated in detail at the Universal's Portofino BayPortofino Bay Resort at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida.According to Pliny the Elder, Portofino was founded by the Roman EmpireRomans and named ''Portus Delphini'', or ''Port of the Dolphin'', because of the large number of dolphins that inhabited the Tigullian Gulf. The city's natural harbour provided a safe haven for the growing merchant marine of the growing Republic of Genoa during the Middle Ages. In the early 20th century, first United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandBritish, then GermanyGerman tourist began to visit Portofino. Eventually they built expensive vacation houses, and by 1950 tourism had supplanted fishing as the city's chief industry.Aubrey Herbert (1880-1923) was one of the more famous Englishmen to maintain a villa at Portofino. commonsPortofino
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