Imperia (Italy)

See also: Imperia

Imperia is a Italian city, chief town of the Province of Imperia, in Ligurie. It is bordering with the French Département on the the Alpes-Maritimes.

The dialects spoken in the province about Imperia are Ligure Intémélien whereas downtown, it is close to the Piémontais (to Oneille) and to the génois (in Oporto Maurizio).

The Swiss clown Grock made there build a majestic house, the Bianca Villa of the name of his adopted girl.

History

Imperia was formed in 1923 by the union of two cities which had had a rather different history, separated by the river Impero (from where the name):

Oneille (Italian Oneglia in ), a city of the Middle Ages, which belonged to the Doria, then to the States of Savoy as from 1576, whose speech Ligure is crossbred of Piedmontese
Port-Maurice (Oporto Maurizio in Italian), a city rested by the Byzantine emperor Maurice and whose fate was closely related to Genoa.

It is the fastening of the Comté of Nice in France which made EC last city, a chief town of province.

Administration

Hamlets

Caramagna, Castelvecchio, Costa d' Oneglia, Moltedo, Montegrazie, Oneglia, Piani, Poggi, Sant' Agata

Communes bordering

Civezza, Diano Arentino, Diano Castello, Diano Marina, Dolcedo, Pontedassio, San Lorenzo Al Pond, Vasia

Personalities

Giulio Natta (1903 - 1979), Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1963

See too

List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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