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BORDIGHERA

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 246 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BORDIGHERA  , a

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town of
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Liguria, Italy, in the province of
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Porto Maurizio, 91 m . S.W. of Genoa by
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rail, and 3 M . E.N.E. of Ventimiglia . Pop . (1901) 4673 . It is a favourite winter resort, especially for visitors from England, and is situated in beautiful coast scenery . It has
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fine gardens, and its flowers and palms are especially famous: the former are largely exported, while the latter serve for the supply of palm branches for St Peter's at Rome and other churches on Palm
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Sunday . The new museum contains a unique collection of the
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flora of the
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Riviera . From 1682 until the
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Napoleonic period, Bordighera was the capital of a small republic of the villages of the neighbouring valleys .

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