Explore "A Book of the Riviera" by Sabine Baring-Gould on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Ventimiglia-Internecine conflicts-Republics-Genoa obtains the Ligurian coast-Siege of Ventimiglia-Guelf and Ghibellines-The Lascaris family: Paul Louis Lascaris-The Cathedral and Baptistery-S. Michaele-Camporosso-Dolceacqua-Bordighera-San Ampelio-Relics-Retreat of the sea.
VENTIMIGLIA, crowning a rocky ridge above the Roya, was formerly the capital of a county comprising of all the coast to Porto Maurizio. What Mr. Adington Symonds says of Italian towns generally in the Middle Ages applies equally to those on the Riviera: -