The city of Rapallo is one of the main tourist-seaside centers of the Riviera di Levante, located in the innermost part of the Gulf of Tigullio and which, like other localities in the area, offers a tourist offer based on the coast-hinterland combination due to the particular conformation of the territory in which it is inserted.

The oldest part of the city, partially renovated, is between the sea and the railway while the recent part extends in an arc around the inlet and on the slopes of the hills behind it, characterized by typical Mediterranean vegetation.

To report the important patronal feast of Our Lady of Montallegro which takes place on 1-2-3 July, the San Sebastiano Fair in the last week of January to which are added the other numerous cultural and artistic initiatives that every year offers Rapallo as film reviews, concerts of various kinds and important literary prizes.