Villa Regina Margherita, Art museum in Bordighera, Italy.
Villa Regina Margherita is an art museum in Bordighera, a coastal town on the Ligurian Riviera in northwestern Italy. The building spreads across several floors, from the basement to a rooftop terrace, and houses paintings and artworks from a private collection.
Queen Margherita of Savoy bought Villa Etelinda in 1914 and had her new villa built in its park, with works starting on 30 March 1914 under architect Luigi Broggi. The building was finished in October 1915 and inaugurated on 25 February 1916. After the queen died there on 4 January 1926, the House of Savoy donated it to the National Association of Families of the Fallen and Missing in War. Bordighera and the Province of Imperia bought it on 16 September 2008; it has been closed to the public since the Terruzzi Foundation left in June 2015.
The villa served as a winter residence for a queen and still shows visible signs of that royal past. The symbols of the House of Savoy appear in the stained glass windows and the interior decorations throughout the rooms.
The villa has been closed to the public since the Terruzzi Foundation returned it to the Province of Imperia and the City of Bordighera in June 2015, so visits are not currently possible. The building stands on via Romana, within the park of the former Villa Etelinda. Its original lift cabin is kept near the dining room.
The stained glass on the main staircase is original and bears the double Savoy coat of arms of Queen Margherita and King Umberto I. The villa's original lift cabin was kept after the lift was replaced for safety reasons and now stands near the dining room.
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