With its grand casino, fabulous weather almost year round and famous music festival, which inspired the EurovisionSong Contest, San Remo rivalled Cannes as a glamorous beach destination for starlets and millionaires in the 1950s and 1960s.
Earlier this year she made a sensational appearance during RAI's broadcast of the San Remo Music Festival - a sort of Italian version of the Eurovisionsong contest, and very much family viewing.