one of them is building contractor filippo lombardo. he's agreed to help for a year.n average, 100 to 150 more come to ventimiglia every day. ventimiglia is a stop on the way. despite the guarded border, migrants manage to cross into france again and again. the roya river flows into the mediterranean here. in the southern alps, the river draws tourists and summer hikers - as does the french town of breil-sur-roya. since 2014, the european union has subsidized the border region with more than 200 million euros for tourism, joint nature conservation and cross-border cooperation among mountain communities. we've created tourist brochures, information plaques and this website, which highlights the different communities throughout the roya and vermenagna territory, and their various monuments. one such monument, in breil's italian twin town of borgo san dalmazzo commemorates over 300 jewish people from all over europe who were deported from here to auschwitz. italians, french, germans, dutch - most had fled the nazis first to the south of france and then to the mountains o