“I’ve forgotten how much I loved this place. I’ve been happy in B.”
Some people would ask me what does one do around here and I would instantly reply: have long walks uphill or in the valley, maybe down by the seaside, eat sweet apricots and drink ristretto or espresso while watching the belfry from the balcony in the morning sea-breeze. I’d be looking for Elio and Oliver or even Monet, sun-drenched piazzettas, the Città Alta on an early morning or in the quietness of late nights. I’d admire the moonlight over the town and the Mediterranean with the chorus of cicadas, or the palm trees in the colorful bright sunlight of “La Città delle Palme“. I’d end up for the evening in a baretto at the lungomare with a prosecco delle Venezie.
By the Piave Memoriale
The boat-yard and the Villa Garnier
Ristorante Pizzeria La Piazzetta under the belfry
Espresso and apricots
By moonlight at the piazzetta with the lights of N in the background
Where to go in B?
I spent a morning in the piazzetta of the confessions with the view of the Riviera, N and even E
Bordighera Città Alta – the old town:
Via Venti Settembre
Albergo del Capo
Via Dritta
Via al Capo
La piazzetta and the belfry
Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena
Piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo
The Queen of Palm Trees:
Orange trees
Corso Italia
Parrocchia Immacolata Concezione – Chiesa di Terrasanta
View of B
View from Monet’s Park on via Roma
Giardini Moreno
E80 over Vallecrossia
Villa Garnier
Villa Etelinda created by Charles Garnier, also known as Villa Bischoffsheim
The old railway station of B
View from Monet’s Park on via Roma
The Grand Hotel
Savoy
The French Alps
The florist behind the piazza Mazzini
Adriano Lombardi Park
Corso Italia
Via Aurelia
The library
The view of Ventimiglia
The book store
The view of the railway station from Corso Italia
Villa Mariani
The view today from the Belvedere del Carillon
Giardini Moreno
The view on Monte Carlo and Nizza from B
Giardini Moreno
Villas on via Roma
The villa on the cliffside
“I’ve (almost) forgotten how much I loved this place. (…) I’ve been happy in B.”
B by the moonlight with cicadas and crickets and some sea-breeze:
Moonlight over B
View from Piazza di Amici
View from Belvedere del Carillon
Chiesa di Terrasanta
Città Alta by moonlight
B by night
Città Alta by moonlight
Moonlight over Villa Garnier
Città Alta by moonlight
Città Alta by moonlight
Bordighera’s bell tower
“I come here every night and just sit here. Sometimes I spend hours. “
"Somewhere in northern Italy" 