Sanremo (in the past also San Remo; locally Sanrèm or San Römu; Sanremo in Ligurian; Sant Rémol in Occitan; Villa Matutiae or Civitas Sancti Romuli in Latin is an Italian municipality of 53,035 inhabitants in the province of Imperia in Liguria. It is the first and most important municipality in the province by population, second only to the municipality of Genoa in terms of budget, the fourth by population in the region after Genoa, La Spezia and Savona. Located along the Riviera dei Fiori, it is a well-known tourist location, renowned for the cultivation of flowers, hence the nickname \"City of Flowers\". It owes its fame to hosting the arrival of the Milan-Sanremo cycling race (one of the \"classic monuments\" of cycling) and being home to the Italian Song Festival, the Premio Tenco, the rally event of the same name and the Challenge Sanremo (international race of triathlon); it is also home to one of the four casinos in Italy. The city was founded close to two mountain ridges, which originate in Mount Bignone (approximately 1300 m) and proceed to the sea: to the east, towards the Cape Verde promontory (surmounted by the lighthouse of Capo dell\'Arma della Marina Militare ), and west to Capo Nero. The original residential nucleus, the Pigna, is nestled on the walls of a hill-promontory dominated by the sanctuary of the Madonna della Costa, and lapped by the San Francesco and San Romolo streams. To the east, the San Martino torrent and to the west, the Foce torrent give their name to the related eastern and western areas of the city. The first strip of the hinterland, close to the city, is full of greenhouses and flower cultivations, reminding us of the important role of floriculture in the city\'s economy. Some olive groves and the remains of terraced crops, now almost completely abandoned, dot the surrounding countryside and steep hills.