Bordighera. Bordighera is a town and comune in the Province of Imperia, Liguria.
Bordighera is located at 20 kilometres from France and it is possible to see the French coast with a naked eye from the town. Having the Capo Sant'Ampelio which protrudes into the sea, it is the southernmost commune of the region.
The cape is at around the same latitude of Pisa and features a little church built in the 11th century for Sant'Ampelio, the patron saint of the city. Since Bordighera is built where the Maritime Alps plunge into the sea it benefits from the Foehn effect which creates a special microclimate that has warmer winters.
It seems that has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic era, as archaeologists have found signs of human activities in the caves on the Italian and French coast. The first humans to alter the territory and create a structured society arrived in the 6th century B.C.
They were the Ligures, from whom the name of the region, Liguria in Italian, is derived. The name of the city appears for the first time as Burdigheta in 1296, in a papal Bill of by Pope Boniface VIII. The area was particularly prosperous during Roman times because it was situated on the via Julia Augusta in the 1st century B.C. After the fall of the Roman Empire the village was abandoned because of the frequent attacks by pirates and it is only in 1470 that some families of nearby villages such as the Borghetto
Bordighera is located at 20 kilometres from France and it is possible to see the French coast with a naked eye from the town. Having the Capo Sant'Ampelio which protrudes into the sea, it is the southernmost commune of the region.
The cape is at around the same latitude of Pisa and features a little church built in the 11th century for Sant'Ampelio, the patron saint of the city. Since Bordighera is built where the Maritime Alps plunge into the sea it benefits from the Foehn effect which creates a special microclimate that has warmer winters.
It seems that has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic era, as archaeologists have found signs of human activities in the caves on the Italian and French coast. The first humans to alter the territory and create a structured society arrived in the 6th century B.C.
They were the Ligures, from whom the name of the region, Liguria in Italian, is derived. The name of the city appears for the first time as Burdigheta in 1296, in a papal Bill of by Pope Boniface VIII. The area was particularly prosperous during Roman times because it was situated on the via Julia Augusta in the 1st century B.C. After the fall of the Roman Empire the village was abandoned because of the frequent attacks by pirates and it is only in 1470 that some families of nearby villages such as the Borghetto
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