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| Country | Italy | |
| Region | Liguria | |
| Population | 3231 | |
Hospitals, (You will spy in Ligurian), is an Italian town in the region Liguria in a province Imperia.
Understand
Ospedaletti lies in a natural amphitheater, between 'Capo Nero' and 'Capo Sant'Ampelio'; the oldest part of Ospedaletti developed along the coast and the more modern part on the slopes above the bay. In its territory are large crops of flowers and ornamental plants.
History
The origin of the town dates back to the early 14th century, when the Provençal nobleman Fgulques de Villaret, Grand Master of the Order of Malta, was hit, along with his crew led by Palestine al France, of a terrible storm in the Gulf of Liguria.
The ship sank, but the nobleman and his troops were saved by swimming on the beach 'Giunchetto'. Escaping the fury of the sea, they decided to thank St. John the Baptist, erecting a chapel (today's church of Sant'Erasmo). In addition to the church, the Crusaders, who later took the name of Knights Hospitallers, built a hospice to help pilgrims on their way to the ‘Holy Land’. The name Ospedaletti comes from this hospice, which actually means "hospitable place".
From the medieval period it was submitted to the counts Lascaris of Ventimiglia and later as a territory of the Republic of Genoa followed the fate of the republic.
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Until the middle of the 19th century the few inhabitants of Ospedaletti spent their lives quietly, dedicating themselves to fishing and the cultivation of olive and lemon trees. The mention of Ospedaletti as a healthy resort at the Russian court of the Empress Maria d'Assia-Darmstadt (1824-1880) (Maria Alexandrovna) introduced it to foreign tourists.
In addition to the arrival of the Genoa-Ventimiglia railway in the seventies of the nineteenth century, and the opening of the Ospedaletti station, the arrival of the Ospedaletti was very important for the social, economic and tourist development of the Société Foncière Lyonnaise - one of the first investors in real estate of France, based in Paris - who, after an inspection in the then hamlet in August 1880, chose the place as "a sought after and suitable winter and summer resort." Thanks to the collaboration with the Francaise-Ligurienne Societe, in September of the same year and during 1881, the French company began to buy many plots of land where elegant period dwellings and hotels were built, as well as the creation of twelve new streets including today's main street, 'Corso Regina Margherita'.
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