Casa Coraggio

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Casa Coraggio (c.d. 1880 CE) is one of the historic buildings of the city of Bordighera in Liguria, Italy. Built with stones, the 19th-century building is located at 34 Via Vittorio Veneto, at the latter's merge with Via Regina Vittoria. It is roughly between Chiesa Valdese and Chiesa Anglicana. (43.7813°N 7.6619°E / 43.7813; 7.6619 (Casa Coraggio))

Around Christmas 1880, Scottish writer George MacDonald and his family moved to Casa Coraggio, which they had built with the help of financial donations from friends. The family lived there from October to May. 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. The family even planted Scotch firs outside the house to remind them of Britain. 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. MacDonald organised...