Santa Margherita Ligure is a well-known and fashionable holiday resort, which lies in the Gulf of Tigullio, along the two little bays of Corte and Santa Margherita, delimitated by the harbour and by Cape Pagana. To the west the rocky coast is interrupted by little inlets, among which there is Paraggi, with a strip of sandy beach. Eastwards, beyond Cape Pagana, the coastline is still characterized by rocks sheer to the sea, with the two short beaches of Preto and San Michele.