Ventimiglia Town

Yesterday storm Alex brought an immense amount of rainfall to the mountains behind the Riviera. Rivers overflowed their banks and poured down on [...]

The annual “Battaglia di Fiori” is a major event that for many years has been missing from the Ventimiglia summer scene, but the [...]

An old edition of The Rough Guide to Italy dating from around 2005 described Ventimiglia as “a scruffy frontier town”, which although a [...]

We wrote previously about the proposal to build a pedestrian and cyclists’ bridge over the Nervia river, where it reaches the sea at [...]

One of the first things new arrivals to a foreign country think about is personal transport. Owning a car in Italy, France or [...]

Anyone who drives through Ventimiglia will be familiar with the Roman Theatre, sparing it the odd glance while inching along at one of [...]

With its position between two rivers, Ventimiglia’s beach collects a huge amount of driftwood every winter, washed down from far inland up in [...]

Work is due to start imminently on a new pedestrian and cycle bridge that will cross the mouth of the Nervia, much as [...]

The news in Britain is mostly about the Brexit Referendum to be held on June 23rd. Everyone must of course make their own [...]

Ventimiglia, though a bustling town by day, has always had a reputation for being a little quiet at night. There are bars open [...]