The marina is the obvious centrepiece of Porto Rotondo — a curved harbour of several hundred berths, lined on its inner edge by the Piazzetta San Marco and the pastel-fronted restaurants, boutiques, and cafés that make up the village's commercial strip. In summer, the assembled yachts range from serious racing machines to floating apartments the size of small hotels.
The piazzetta itself, designed in the style of a Venetian campiello, is where village life happens: morning espresso, evening aperitivo, the slow promenade that is the social ceremony of an Italian summer evening. It is unashamedly expensive and unashamedly beautiful. If you have no yacht and no expense account, you can still sit at a café table and watch the water and the parade — it costs a coffee.