ID on you, not in the boot
This is the first practical point of any run into Liguria, and it carries a date. France notified the European Commission of the temporary reinstatement of checks at all its internal borders, by land, air and sea, including the border with Italy, for the period 1 May to 31 October 2026.
The consequence fits in a sentence: an identity check at the Ventimiglia crossing is lawful and possible. A card packed in a case, in the boot, under four other bags, is no use. The driver says so before departure, and that detail alone saves a quarter of an hour standing still.
The marina is entered through a barrier
The idea that a car parks beside the pontoons is wrong. The marina operator controls access to its car park by licence plate recognition, hourly ticketing, or a card issued by staff to port customers. You enter under a barrier and pay before leaving.
Its parking regulations add clear limits: no entry for vehicles taller than the height posted at the entrances, no camper vans, trailers or caravans, authorisation required above 3.5 tonnes, and a fifteen-day maximum stay without authorisation. A sedan and a transfer van pass without difficulty; anything larger is arranged in advance.
The address is public and easy to give a guest: via Del Castillo 17. The marina takes vessels up to 90 metres.
What to settle before leaving
Three things. Identity papers for each passenger, carried on the person. The precise drop-off address, because the centre is protected by camera-controlled access points. And the day of the week: on Fridays the Ventimiglia market draws dense morning traffic, with selling hours that local press, quoting the mayoral order, places between 8.00 and 16.00 in winter and 8.00 and 17.00 in summer.
What we do not publish: the official list of filtered access points in the centre and their hours. The municipal portal returns an access error from France, so we have not read the order. A list of streets copied from a news article is not something on which a journey is committed.