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BELLA CASA

From the terrace of her home A Crueza, so named because “I liked this word for its sound”, Italian illustrator Ludovica Basso aka Clorophilla draws and looks off to the horizon. In the background, a blue stretch of Ligurian coastline, and not far from her house is Finale Ligure, the village where she was born.

An artist and dreamer, Ludovica couldn’t arrive in Borgio Verezzi and not be (pleasant retreat),” she says, a little part of the world, where she returns to whenever she can in search of peace and inspiration within the walls of a former 14th-century olive oil mill.

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