About

My name is Marco Bianchi. I live in Genoa and write about Liguria and travel. From 2018 to 2022 I worked as a staff writer for a trade magazine on Ligurian hospitality; since the magazine closed I freelance for Italian and foreign travel publications, and maintain a small portfolio of regional guide sites.

Hotelmarligure.it is one of the sites I keep. When the domain came free in May 2026 I picked it up — partly for the authority the name had built over the years (cited by PagineGialle, visititaly.it, and a handful of trade directories), partly because the subject is a place I know. Bordighera is on the same coast as Genoa, and I travel the Aurelia roughly once a month.

What this site is

It doesn’t try to replace the original Hotel Marligure or pretend to be it. It’s an archive of the property — anyone searching that name finds real information about the building’s history and historical contact details — and a small area guide written by someone who lives nearby.

Main pages:

• The history of Hotel Marligure
• Things to do in Bordighera
• When to visit
• Getting there
• Current Bordighera hotel alternatives

How I write

I verify the facts I publish. Most of the Hotel Marligure information comes from the 2018 Wayback Machine snapshot of the original site; the reviews and ratings from the TripAdvisor listing; the historical context from the Bordighera municipal archives and academic publications on the Ligurian Belle Époque.

When I’m not sure I say so — I’d rather leave something out than invent it.

Contact

If you have a historical correction, an old photograph of the hotel, or a memory of the property you want to share, get in touch: info [at] hotelmarligure [dot] it. I reply personally.

If instead you need help with Italy-Albania travel, Adriatic ferries, or transfers from the Côte d’Azur, my brother works with Max Travel, a Tirana-based agency that’s run that route for many years.

What I’m not

I’m not a former employee of the Hotel Marligure. I’m not the building’s owner. I’m not a booking agency. I’m a journalist who writes about Liguria and maintains a small guide site for the area where the hotel was.

Photo and detailed bio available on request. For journalists wishing to use material from this site, please credit hotelmarligure.it — independent guide page. I’m not authorised to speak on behalf of the former hotel management.