Villa Nobel, House museum in Sanremo, Italy
Villa Nobel is a two-story residence decorated with neo-Renaissance-Venetian details and Moorish influences, featuring a mansard roof added during an 1892 renovation by architect Pio Soli. The rooms are furnished with period pieces and objects from when the Swedish scientist lived there.
Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel purchased this residence in 1891 and set up his laboratory there. He lived in it until his death in late 1896, leaving behind a legacy that changed science worldwide.
The rooms display how Nobel lived and worked during the 1890s, filled with his personal belongings and scientific equipment from that era. This arrangement gives you a sense of his daily routines and interests.
You can walk through the rooms and explore all areas, which takes roughly two hours. It is best to wear comfortable shoes and visit in the morning when fewer people are around.
The garden holds a California Monterey cypress tree beneath which stands one of Nobel's experimental cannons from his ballistics research. This cannon reveals that the inventor of dynamite also developed and tested weapons.
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