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Sanremo

Liguria, Italy
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About Sanremo

Sanremo or San Remo is a town and commune on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in north-western Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of fifty seven,000, and is known as a traveler destination on the Italian Riviera. It hosts severa cultural sports, which consist of the Sanremo Music Festival and the Milan San Remo cycling traditional. Once the Roman settlement of Matutia or Villa Matutiana, Sanremo expanded in the Early Middle Ages at the same time because the population moved to the excessive grounds. The the Aristocracy built a castle and the walled village of La Pigna to guard the metropolis from Saracen raids.

At first subjected to the countship of Ventimiglia, the network later surpassed underneath the kingdom of the Genoese bishops. In 1297 they supplied it to the Doria and De Mari families. It have grow to be a free city in the second half of the fifteenth century, and then it superior to the Pigna hill and at Saint Syrus Cathedral. The nearly flawlessly preserved antique village stays. Sanremo remained independent from the Genoese Republic. In 1753, after 20 years of fierce conflicts, it rose towards Genoese hegemonical attempts. At that element the latter polity built the citadel of Santa Tecla, positioned at the seashore near the port. The fortress comes to be used as a jail until 2002. It is now being transformed proper right into a museum.

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