edited by Dave Collins

Once that you have arrived in the city of the flowers, Sanremo, the appointment cannot be missed with its history. It needs to approach in the old city, and here its ancient heart discovers its that anchors today it is more alive. This heart, perhaps some badly off, cause its great age, call its "the pine-cone". It owes this name to its very alike form with the "flower" of the pines, wide in the inferior part and more and more narrow while it is drawing near us to the summit. This ancient district is perched on a situated hill, almost in front of at the famous theater Ariston, center of the Festival of Sanremo. In this way was built for better defending it from the attacks of the

pirates, the numerous small doors to arc, the narrow alleys and the innumerable steps, allowed since that time the inhabitants to be able them to defend in the best some ways. Entering the suburb from the door of Saint Stephen, the Revolts of St. Sebastiano are crossed, had been constituting for times to cruise, to this point he comes in the small square of the Pains, that owes this name to the brotherhood of the Madonna of the Seven Pains that was appropriated in the oratorical neighbor of St. Sebastiano. Taken street Palm it reaches the church of St. Joseph. In the street Palm to the civic 21 there is "house Manara", that entertained Pope Paolo III in 1538, in its trip toward Nice. To the civic 18 of street Montà, a little anymore in low, there is the building of the earls Sapia Rossi, that entertained Napoleone Bonaparte in 1794.

Climbing for the narrow alleys in pebbles it comes in the gardens Regina Elena, where they are developed some plants of great dimensions with some twisted and impressive external roots. From the gardens, climbing a series of staircases, he comes in sight of the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Coast, protectress of all the sailors and all the citizens of the city of the flowers.