What to see · Santa Margherita Ligure

The Italian garden above the sea, and the tower where Francis I was held after Pavia.

A square block of stone with four turrets, on the point closing the bay of Paraggi to the east.

Built in a few months in 1550 against Saracen pirates, at the foot of the villa Durazzo hill.

A basin of rose-scented water under the high altar: that is where the sanctuary of the Rose began.

The villa where Queen Margherita slept in 1904, with its Italian garden and stucco hall

A triptych ordered in Bruges in 1499 by a local merchant, on the hills above Santa Margherita.