San Remo, capital of the Italian Riviera, has seen its best artistic and architectural expression during the “belle époque” period. Indeed, the dominant style is the Liberty one that, with its marked floral style, characterizes hotels, villas and Casino. From 1874 to 1906, San Remo lived a period of great building development: 25 hotels and 190 villas were built up. Since this moment, the nature of use of buildings is changed but their charm still remains the same.

Among the monuments stand out the Orthodox Russian Church, built in 1913, that recalls the Church of San Basilio in Moscow, the Borea d’Olmo Palace, built up during the fifteenth century, that houses the Civic Museum, the San Siro Cathedral, built during the XII century, in pure Romanic-gothic style and the St John Baptistery, near the Cathedral, that dates back to the Baroque period (1688), where you can admire the “Holy Communion of Magdalene” by Orazio de Ferrari.

At the end, the Torre (tower) della Ciapela, an impressive building that was once part of the sixteenth-century town walls. You can find it in Piazza Eroi, in the town centre and close to “La Pigna”, the Medieval part of San Remo, closed by walls, doors, and towers with stone buildings with many columns and engraved portals.