British in Liguria. Castles, Villas, Gardens, Stories in the Italian Riviera

Liguria is dotted with an incredible heritage of parks and residences created by prominent English figures who, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, chose the region as a destination for winter holidays. They gave rise to magnificent exotic gardens and villas with unusual architecture. Giovanni Ruffini, in Doctor Antonio, the novel published in Edinburgh in 1855 that gave great momentum to the Ligurian Riviera thanks to its mild climate and the beauty of its coastline, described Liguria as a "marvellous stretch of undulating hills along the coast, set against a backdrop of high mountains extending in a semicircle from east to west." This richly illustrated volume, edited by Alessandro Bartoli and Francesca Centurione Scotto Boschieri, with contributions from leading scholars and researchers, is a fundamental work aimed at enhancing and promoting, both in Italy and abroad, this extraordinary cultural and architectural heritage