Holidays in Bordighera

Some families of Borghetto San Nicolò , in 1470, went down to the sea and founded Bordighetta at Capo Sant'Ampelio . In 1682 it had become Bordighera and with Camporosso, Vallebona, Vallecrosia, Soldano, San Biagio, Sasso and Borghetto, it formed the Eight Places , under Genoese protection but semi-autonomous until the Napoleonic invasion.

To see in Bordighera

The Church of Sant'Ampelio of the eleventh century but with the modern facade is located on the homonymous Cape. From here you go up to the old city, with the walls and the medieval structure, of which you can admire the three access gates dating back to the XV-XIII century, the Church of Maria Maddalena of the '600, the fifteenth-century oratory of San Bartolomeo degli Armeni and the 18th century bell tower .

The Anglican Church , today a Cultural Center and the “Clarence Bicknell” Library Museum , in whose building there are also the International Institute of Ligurian Studies , the International Library and the Permanent Exhibition “Pompeo Mariani” .

For nature lovers, there is the Pallanca Exotic Garden and the spontaneous palm grove of the Sasso valley .

Near Bordighera, reborn in the 19th century thanks to Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna , Ospedaletti was originally a hospice for pilgrims and here, in 1874, the first flower export house was founded, thus starting the trade and floral cultivation of the Riviera of Flowers .