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and include the remains of an amphitheatre and baths dating from the 2nd and 3rd centur-
ies AD.
Market
( 8am-3pm or 4pm)
These days Ventimiglia is better known as a border town, with a huge
Friday market when hundreds of stalls sell food, clothes, homewares, baskets and
everything else under the sun. The market is concentrated on Piazza della Libertà, near the
river, and is popular with French day trippers.
MARKET
Giardini Botanici Hanbury
(
www.giardinihanbury.com
; Corso Montecarlo 43; adult/reduced €7.50/4.50; 9.30am-6pm)
Es-
tablished in 1867 by English businessman Sir Thomas Hanbury, the 18-hectare Villa Han-
bury estate is planted with 5800 botanical species from five continents, including cacti,
palm groves and citrus orchards. Today it's a protected area, under the care of the
University of Genoa.
Take bus 1a from Via Cavour in Ventimiglia; the bus continues on to the Ponte San
Lodovico frontier post, from where you can walk down to the Balzi Rossi caves and
beach on the French border.
GARDEN
Sleeping & Eating
Cheap, cheerful eateries congregate around Via Cavour.
Hotel Seagull
( 0184 35 17 26;
www.seagullhotel.it
;
Passeggiata Marconi 24; s/d from €55/75; )
A
10-minute stroll along the seafront from Ventimiglia's town centre, this family-run hotel
has simple but appealing sky-blue-and-white rooms, a fragrant garden and a breezy ter-
race.
HOTEL
€
Information
Tourist Office
(Lungo Roja Rossi; 9am-12.30pm & 3.30-7pm Mon-Sat Jul & Aug, 9am-12.30pm &
3-6.30pm Mon-Sat Sep-Jun)
Just steps from the train station.
Getting There & Away
