Cervia and Grazia Deledda
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Grazia Deledda first arrived here by train, the railways having arrived in Cervia at the end of the 1800s. It was 1920 and tourism was still new. Deledda wanted to take the sea air at this undeveloped resort that reminded her of her native Sardinia. It was love at first sight! So much so that she stayed here until 1935.
First as a guest at Villa Igea, one of the first guesthouses in Cervia, and then later renting her own house in Via Miccoli. In 1926, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, she bought Villa Caravella in Via Colombo and in 1927 was made an honorary citizen. But the honour was all ours!