In the inner part of village instead, rises Church of S.Lorenzo whose construction began in 1116;
in Romanesque style, facade to hut introduces one; Saint, that he is represented while endures
the martyrdom on the graticola, he is placed in the lunetta of the portale. In the 1130 Church,
not still finished, he was consecrated from Pope Innocenzo II and was then completed in the second
one half of the century. Had from a fire in 1340, it was reconstructed in gotico and equipped style
of a bell tower place over the presbiterio. It endured also remarkable damages it provokes to you
from the Aragoneses in 1494 as a result of which were transformed completely, in the century XVI in
heavy style baroque, style that maintained until to the 1934 year in which, by means of
it takes care of jobs to you of restoration, came brought back to
the primitivo state. To its inside works of the three hundred and
the five hundred can be admired, oreficeria objects (between which
also three cofanetti siriaci and a bizantino datable around to the Thousands),
codes, sculptures, paintings on table and burlap they are conserved in sacrestia.
Little over the Church it rises the massive one Strongly of Muzzerone,
equipped of poligonale structure that it follows the course of the hill on which it rises.
Constructed from i genovesi in XVI the century were subsequently reinforced in the `600.
Other part indeed evocative of this ancient one village is the “Cove of Byron”,
grooved in the sour cliff of the shoreline that leads to Five Lands, it is dedicated to
the English poet Byron (XIX century); he was this a place of inspiration for
its works literary even if, in truth, he never visited it. The name originates
them of cove was “Cove of the Arpaia”.
The more important festivity that it is carried out to Portovenere is that one of the “Madonna Bianca”, 17 August.
The parchment of the three hundred that represents the Madonna with the Child between
S.Antonio Abate and S.Cristoforò arrived to Portovenere, second the tradition,
in 1204 with to other sacred reliquie.
