Villa Garnier
The Villa Garnier is located on Via Garnier in Bordighera on the Ligurian Riviera in Italy . The building is part of the property protected by the Superintendent of Architecture and Landscape of Liguria .
history
After living in Menton for a while, the architect Charles Garnier decided to build a villa in Bordighera. In May 1871 he found a piece of land near the Arziglia. This place was already occupied by a small chapel that was used as an elementary school for boys. It was a sloping plot of land outside the city that stretched to the sea and encompassed the fishing beach, the famous Arziglia . In order to preserve the land, Garnier offered the community a substantial sum in addition to building a new school. Given this exceptional offer, the city met the conditions and Garnier was able to buy the land.
The elegant villa later became a model for the architecture of the Ligure Riviera and the Côte d'Azur (French Riviera).
In Bordighera, Garnier had many well-known guests such as Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Gustave Boulanger . Caricatures of these artists can still be admired on the walls of the entrance. In the villa there are still some paintings by Jules Eugène Lenepveu , Alexandre Bida and Georges Clairin , which were part of the Garnier collection.
Since 1954 the villa has been a religious house of the Congregation of the Joseph Sisters of Aosta.
The gardens
The gardens were created by Garnier with the help of his son Christian and Ludovic Winter . The villa is surrounded by a magnificent palm grove and sun-drenched terraces on which exotic plants have also been grown. There are around 600 different varieties in total; local species such as olive trees, palms, fig trees and lemon trees predominate.
Today there are ten different species of palm and several hundred-year-old trees in the 2,500 square meter garden, including a Nolina longifolia .
In the garden there is also a bust of Charles Garnier by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and a column from the Palais des Tuileries in Paris.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bordighera.net/tutti-i-vincoli-della-soprintendenza-dei-beni-architettonici-e-paesaggistici-della-liguria-a-bordighera-n40982 Tutti i vincoli della Soprintendenza dei Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici della Liguria a Bordighera
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bordighera Storia Villa Garnier
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Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 53.4 " N , 7 ° 40 ′ 32.9" E