Sights in Riviera Di Ponente
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Bussana Vecchia
About 10km northeast of San Remo is the intriguing artist colony. On Ash Wednesday 1887, an earthquake destroyed the village, and survivors were eventually forced to abandon it. It remained a ghost town until the 1960s, when artists moved in and began rebuilding the ruins using the original stones from the rubble. After successfully standing up to authorities who wanted to remove them, a thriving community of international artists remains in residence today.
It's possible to stay overnight here - contact artist Colin Wilmot for more information.
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Museo Civico
In the Museo Civico, several rooms, some with fine frescoed ceilings, display local prehistoric and Roman archaeological finds, paintings and temporary exhibitions. Highlights include Maurizio Carrega’s Gloria di San Napoleone, painted in 1808 as a sycophantic homage to the Corsican despot of the same name, and bronze statues by Franco Bargiggia.
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Chiesa Russa Ortodossia
The multicoloured Chiesa Russa Ortodossia was built for the Russian community that followed Tsarina Maria to San Remo. The Russian Orthodox church – with its onion domes and pale blue interior – was designed in 1906 by Alexei Shchusev, who later planned Lenin’s mausoleum in Moscow. These days it’s used as an exhibition space for Russian icons.
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Pinacoteca Civica Savona
Art aficionados won’t want to miss the Pinacoteca Civica Savona, which has an important collection of religious paintings, including a Madonna and child by Taddeo di Bartolo, dating from the 14th to 15th centuries, and two Picassos.
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Fortezza del Priamàr
Among Savona's treasures to survive destruction by Genoese forces in the 16th century is the lumbering Fortezza del Priamàr. This imposing fortress guards a couple of sculpture museums and the Civico Museo Storico Archeologico.
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Cattedrale di Nostra Signora Assunta
Among Savona's treasures to survive destruction by Genoese forces in the 16th century is the baroque Cattedrale di Nostra Signora Assunta.
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Villa Nobel
The Moorish Villa Nobel houses a museum dedicated to Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prize while living here.
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Civico Museo Storico Archeologico
The Civico Museo Storico Archeologico displays archaeological finds.
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Villa Ormond
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