{"id":2618,"date":"2026-09-28T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:32:29","slug":"monet-in-bordighera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/monet-in-bordighera\/","title":{"rendered":"Monet in Bordighera: three months among palms and gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1884 Claude Monet arrived in Bordighera by train. He stayed three months and painted dozens of pictures: palms, gardens, olive trees, the Belle \u00c9poque villas and the old village overlooking the sea. Many of the places he portrayed can still be found today.<\/p>\n

The Pension Anglaise and the town of the foreigners<\/h2>\n

Monet stayed at the Pension Anglaise, the starting point of his explorations, his thoughts and his letters. Away from the fashionable crowd, he watched society life, the carnival and the spectacle of the sea. In those years Bordighera was full of international figures, such as the French architect Charles Garnier, who built his villa and several other buildings here.<\/p>\n

The Moreno Gardens, \u201cpure magic\u201d<\/h2>\n

What enchanted him above all were the Moreno Gardens, owned by the French consul Francesco Moreno. They covered a vast area from the seafront up to the old town and were famous throughout Europe for their balance of local plants and exotic species. Thanks to a letter of introduction Monet managed to get in, and he was amazed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA garden like that is indescribable, it is pure magic, all the plants in the world grow there in the open ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claude Monet, letter to Alice Hosched\u00e9, 5 February 1884<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Today a part of those gardens is dedicated to the painter: the Giardini Monet, on the Via Romana.<\/p>\n

Through Monet\u2019s eyes<\/h2>\n

Along the Via Romana, three \u201cM\u201d signs marked on the ground show the spots where Monet painted. Standing on them, you find his framings again: among palms and exotic plants appear Villa Etelinda, today\u2019s Museo Bicknell, Bordighera Alta and the rise towards Villa Regina Margherita.<\/p>\n

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Claude Monet, palm trees at Bordighera, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the garden of the Fondazione Pompeo Mariani, in the old town, you can admire some of the most important views he painted. The painter Pompeo Mariani bought the land in 1909 precisely because of the place\u2019s link with Monet, and the olive trees Monet portrayed still grow there, now listed among Italy\u2019s monumental trees.<\/p>\n

During his stay Monet also ventured inland, to Dolceacqua, where he painted the old bridge and the castle of the Doria family.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIn Monet\u2019s footsteps\u201d itinerary<\/h2>\n

To retrace his steps there is the itinerary In Monet\u2019s footsteps<\/a>: it starts from the IAT tourist office and takes in the places the painter frequented and painted, with the illustrated map, the GPX track to download and the story told by Pietro, the boy who was his guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1884 Claude Monet came to Bordighera and stayed three months, painting dozens of pictures. Here is where to find, even today, the places he portrayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"tipo_vacanza":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"tipo_vacanza","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitbordighera.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo_vacanza?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}