“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.
Ristorante Pizzeria La Piazzetta under the belfry
By moonlight at the piazzetta with the lights of N in the background
Espresso and apricots
The boat-yard and the Villa Garnier
I spent a morning in the piazzetta of the confessions with the view of the Riviera, N and even E
By the Piave Memoriale
Where to go in B?
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:
Adriano Lombardi Park
Via Aurelia
The Grand Hotel
View of B
The old railway station of B
Giardini Moreno
Giardini Moreno
Orange trees
Villa Mariani
View from Monet’s Park on via Roma
Corso Italia
Giardini Moreno
The florist behind the piazza Mazzini
The villa on the cliffside
Savoy
Corso Italia
View from Monet’s Park on via Roma
The view today from the Belvedere del Carillon
Villa Garnier
The book store
Villa Etelinda created by Charles Garnier, also known as Villa Bischoffsheim
The view of the railway station from Corso Italia
The French Alps
The view of Ventimiglia
Parrocchia Immacolata Concezione – Chiesa di Terrasanta
Villas on via Roma
E80 over Vallecrossia
The view on Monte Carlo and Nizza from B
The library
“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:
Città Alta by moonlight
Città Alta by moonlight
San Giacomo’s belfry
Città Alta by moonlight
B by night
Moonlight over Villa Garnier
View from Belvedere del Carillon
Chiesa di Terrasanta
Città Alta by moonlight
Moonlight over B
View from Piazza di Amici
“I come here every night and just sit here. Sometimes I spend hours. “
