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1.Start point of the tour

Welcome on start place of the tour Unique San Remo

2.Parking place Villa Ormond

3.ORMOND VILLA

Once you've parked the scooter choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsORMOND VILLA & GARDEN,​one is the most beautiful historic villa and public city park with botanical rarities from all over the world. The villa was built in 1875 and rinovated in 1890 by wealthy Swiss businessman Michel Louis Ormond.Currently the villa, which is still the venue of important exhibitions and conferences, houses the offices of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, a private, independent and non-profit organization founded in Sanremo in 1970

4. Parking place Villa Ormond

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5.Parking place on Piazza Cristoforo Colombo

PIAZZA CRISTOFORO COLOMBO,​ the nerve center of San Remo

6.VIA GIACOMO MATTEOTTI

Once you've parked the scooter choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsVIA GIACOMO MATTEOTTI is the via Montenapoleone in Milan, via Condotti in Rome, in short, it is the main and most chic street of San Remo

7.ARISTON THEATER

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google maps​ARISTON THEATER,​ i​s a cinema in ​San Remo.​ The theater has been the home of the annual ​San Remo Music Festival​ Competitions, since 1977

8.Palazzo Borea d'Olmo

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsThe majestic palace, which represents the most important civil building of the city and the biggest of all the Western Liguria, has always been the lavish residence of the family Borea D’Olmo, one of the most ancient and prestigious families of the city since the 15th century.

9.CAFE RENAISSANCE

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsCAFE RENAISSANCE is one of the most important points of meeting for local people since 1954. Here you may taste famous BACI di San Remo with best espresso!

10.Parking Place Piazza Colombo

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11.Old Port

The first embryo of the future port of Sanremo probably existed since the time of the Saracen raids between the 9th and 10thcenturies..In the 80s of the last century there was also an attempt to establish in the port of Sanremo, a docking point for the ferries of a well known company that served between the ports of Liguria and Corsica.t worked for a certain period discreetly because it brought more people and therefore more commentry, but above all more vehicles. In the end, however, after some problems that occurred during that period, the Company had to give up landing because the basin was not deep enough to allow an easy manoeuvre to dock and the large traffic flow caused a blockage for the whole port area

12.FORTRESS OF ST. TECLA

PORTO VECCHIO, with the fortress of St. Tecla ​built by the Genoese in the eighteenth century, along the coast of the city, in an area now used as gardens. The goal of this construction was not so much to create a defensive bulwark of the territory but to control, and if necessary counteract, the development of the Matuzian city.

13.Old railway station/ bicycle road

Old railway station was built in 1872. In 2001 the railway was moved in tunnels and replased with modern bicycle road of 30 km long !

14.Parking place Corso Imperatrice

15.Casinò di San Remo

​Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google maps , then get steps on stairs to climb up to CasinòMUNICIPAL CASINO is one of only 4 casinos in Italy,​ attracts players internationally, it is in fact the best known building in San Remo. It was built in 1905 in liberty style designed by French architect Eugène Ferret.

16. Corso Imperatrice

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google maps and use underground pedestrian crossingWALK of the EMPRESS,​ l​oved by tourists for its beautiful palm trees, Passeggiata Imperatrice - Empress Walk - in San Remo is a road dedicated to Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia, who used to spend long stays in the City of Flowers. The stays in Sanremo was so beneficial to the Empress that, as a reward, she wanted to donate a large sum to the Municipality of Sanremo to purchase the first palm trees and adorn the walk she frequently traveled.

18.Parking Place Corso Imperatrice

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19.Parking Place Piazza Eroi Sanremesi

20.San Siro Cathedral

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsSan Siro Church , also named Insigne Basilica Collegiata Cattedrale of San Siro, is the oldest area of worship in Sanremo. The church, prototype of Roman church, was built in the 12th century (perhaps by the Masters Comacini) on the remains of a tiny early Christian church , dated to 811, where Bishop Siro used to celebrate the holy Mass.

21.Pasta Madre

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsPasta Madre il Fornaio - pehaps the best focaccia with anchois La Sardenaira !

22.PIAZZA SIRO ANDREA CARLI

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsSIRO ANDREA CARLI, Doctor, Lecturer and Member of Parliament

23.Parking Place Piazza Eroi Sanremesi

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24.Parking Place at Pigna

25.Vecchia Pigna (via Cisterna)

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google maps and use the stairs down to the district Vechia PignaLa Pigna was once the pulse of a no longer existing San Remo. It was the actual old town and now it is both the “humblest” and the most spontaneous area of the town. It is full of covered alleys, little squares, and terraced houses together with dull colours and long silences which in turn create emotions and sensations unknown to mass tourism. La Pigna can only be discovered on foot !

26.Giardini Regina Elena

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsRegina Elena Gardens - these garden were a tribute to Queen Elena of Montenegro.

27.Panoramic view on Belvedere della Madonna Della Costa

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsSee the panoramic view of old Sanremo and the gulf, gazing at the hinterland and Mont Bignone

28.SANCTUARY OF THE MADONNA DELLA COSTA

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsThe sanctuary, the sacred place most dear to the people of Sanremo together with the co-cathedral of San Siro, dominates the whole city from the most panoramic and central point of Sanremo. The large building, visible even from a considerable distance, has always been, especially for sailors, a sure point of reference, especially from a spiritual point of view.

29.Parking place at Pigna

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30. Parking place Bussana Vecchia

31. Bussana Vecchia, chiesa di S.Egidio

Please choose the walking mode🚶on Google mapsBussana Vecchia is a former ghost town . Abandoned due to an eathquake in 1887, it was renovated and repopulated by an international community of artists in the early 1960s. To this day, it is home to a small group of local inhabitants as well as international artists, with craft shops, cafes, and restaurants, and has over the years gained the reputation of a rural artists' residence within the setting of a medieval village.

32. Parking place, View point on the gulf, restaurant La Casaccia

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33. Santuario Madonna della Guardia

Amazing view point on the whole San Remo city

34. Poggio di Sanremo

Poggio - one of the most attractive points of famous Milan–San Remo (in Italian Milano-Sanremo), also called "The Spring classic" or "La Classicissima", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo

35. End of the tour