One of the Villas of Corso degli Inglesi

It is located in C.so Inglesi, under the road, near Villa Vista Lieta (Officers' House), after Villa Primula.

Built by Pietro Agosti in 1906, it was inhabited by Countess Silvia di Mexbourough.

The entrance is surrounded by an Italian-style garden with small avenues, statues and a fountain, built on two floors, with a light-coloured facade embellished with a greyish-green frieze in the attic. At the entrance there is a small vestibule from which a glass and wrought-iron canopy branches out almost like a fan. Inside are the original Louis XVI style frescoes painted by the painters and decorators G.Battista Carlo and Giuseppe Bova.

We add that the Villa Maya was built in the « anno Domini 1906 »  as the inscription on the pediment reads by the engineer Pietro Agosti and inhabited by Countess Silvia Clark of Mexbourough. It was later purchased by Mr. Ernesto Bernuzzi, already owner of a well-known delicatessen-restaurant in Via Feraldi.

(source: "Sanremo tra due secoli" Duretto-Migliorini- Verda Scajola).