4B Travel Guide

San Remo is the Italian Riviera at full volume. Where Bordighera whispers, San Remo sings — literally, as the home of the Festival della Canzone Italiana, the song contest that has shaped Italian pop music for seventy years.

Welcome to Bordighera — one of the most quietly magnificent towns on the entire Italian Riviera. Tucked into the final curve of Liguria before the French border, Bordighera sits between two worlds: the wild perfume of mimosa and palm groves above, and the deep blue of the Ligurian Sea below.

Welcome to Catalunya, Spain — where the wild Costa Brava cliffs tumble into the clearest blue-green water in the Mediterranean, where Barcelona pulses with the genius of Gaudí at every corner, and where ancient walled cities and sleepy fishing villages reward every traveller who ventures beyond the obvious.