The castle — which is an integral part of the Portofino skyline — bills itself as a “unique location,” and is available to hire out for events, as well as offering daytime visits to the public. It is thought that the site has been fortified since Roman times, though the modern-day Castello Brown is a 19th-century renovation by former British consulate Montague Yeats-Brown. Yeats-Brown bought the castle in 1867, after it had been abandoned for more than half a century, following the fall of the Republic of Genoa. He turned it into a lavish villa, fit for a celebrity wedding, and transformed the former artillery entrenchments into a lush garden.
