Personalities.
Many famous people were born in Liguria, and even more have honoured the two Rivieras with their presence, especially since the nineteenth century. For this reason, you will find here not only the names of the navigator Christopher Columbus, the musician Nicolò Paganini, the astronomer Domenico Cassini, the poet Eugenio Montale and other less well-known but very important figures in the history of the region (such as the cartographer Matteo Vinzoni or the writer Vittorio G. Rossi), but you will also see the names of other figures who have worked or spent their holidays in Liguria: for example Maupassant, Stendhal, Goethe, Wagner, Valéry, Nietzsche, Andersen and Sibelius. Many of them spoke about Liguria knowingly and with enthusiasm and so their names are recorded with affection by the local communities that they visited on commemorative stones, in small museums and elsewhere.