San Remo

San Remo is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Italian Riviera between Genova and the French border in the part known as the Riviera dei Fiori, or riviera of flowers. It is also called the City of Flowers. It's in the province of Liguria. It is about 40 miles from Nice, France and about 100 miles from Genova, Italy.

San Remo was a Roman settlement, and expanded in the early Middle Ages when the population moved to higher grounds. The nobility built a castle and the walled vilalge of La Pigna (The Pinecone) to protect the town.

 It is definitely a tourist town now. It houses a famous casino and hosts the world famous Sanremo Music Festival.

Yachts are always visible in the harbor. 

One of the more interesting sights is the Russian Orthodox Church. Palm trees are abundant along the waterfront. 

 

In the spring of 1980 Elders Brad Neff and Todd Graves opened the city of San Remo to missionary work. A couple of days each week they travelled from their assigned area of Savona to San Remo. The Genovese family, a strong member family from San Remo, assisted in the San Remo missionary effort. Several months later full-time missionaries were installed in San Remo.