Andrés Nuñez del Castillo Hospital

Under the administration of Mayor Orazio Raimondo, the Hospital named after Andrés Nuñez del Castillo was inaugurated between 1906 and 1908 in the Borgo Pescio area.
This was possible thanks to the generous donation made by the Marquis and Count Beniamino Carlo Nuñez del Castillo, who in memory of his uncle Andrés donated land and a building to the city of Sanremo in 1905, thus building the children's hospital that served the city of flowers for many years.
The design of the building was assigned to engineer Pietro Agosti.

The hospital was a paediatric hospital because the benefactor cared about the precarious conditions of children who could not be accommodated at the Civil Hospital.

The hospital was inaugurated in 1908, with the participation of local dignitaries and Queen Elena, consort of King Vittorio Emanuele III.

The Andrès Nuñez del Castillo family was of Spanish origin, from the village of Almunecar near Malaga, from where Captain Juan Nunez del Castillo moved to Cuba in 1680, where he founded the colonial city of San Felipe y Santiago and received the title of marquis from Philip V in 1713.
The descendants of the family added the title of Count del Castillo con Grandezza in 1804.
Juan José, a colonel, governor of Venezuela and a gentleman of the King, was very well known in Central America. He provided considerable administrative and financial services to the State and died in Spain in 1758.
The family was granted the title of Count (mpr.) by HM King Alfonso XIII on 8 March 1908.
The Italian branch descends from the second son of the said Marquis Juan José, while the first-born branch died in Spain.

There is still the last descendant of the family who by coincidence is called Andrea Nuñez del Castillo.

In the 1980s the hospital was closed and a new pavilion was built behind the Civic Hospital, giving it the name of Castillo.

(Sources: Texts by Andrea Gandolfo (Mauriziano); by Marco Mauro (Ospedale civile); images from Private Archives and Web)