Casa Coraggio, Bordighera

Built with stones, the 19th-century building is located at 34 Via Vittorio Veneto, at the latter's merge with Via Regina Vittoria.

They originally came to Italy when one of MacDonald's daughters, Mary, was ill with tuberculosis, as they believed the dry and warm climate would improve her chances of recovery.

Although she died before the house was completed, the family continued spending winters in Italy because it greatly improved the health of MacDonald, who was prone to illness.

[3] The vast living room could host as many as two hundred people, and it rapidly became a centre of the British community and the intellectual groups that resided in the area.

[6] After the Second World War put an end to British and German tourism in Bordighera, the hotel went into a severe crisis from which it never recovered.