Villa Mariani many personal items of Mariani such as clothes, hats, walking sticks, etc. The lounge, which thanks to Winter’s expansion, reached , still retains a belief in oak paneling built by Eugenio Quarter. On a piece of furniture there is a clock given by Arturo Toscanini, depicting a scene from the "Turandot" of Giacomo Puccini, and a friend of the two artists. A trivia is that "Turandot", Puccini's unfinished work, was eventually completed by Franco Alfano, who stayed in Bordighera in 1926, in the Villa of the Waves, as he composed the work "Madonna Imperia". In the dining room there is
Franco Alfano Hans Sitt and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig. While working there he met his idol, Edvard Grieg, and wrote numerous piano and orchestral pieces. From 1918 he was Director of the Conservatory of Bologna, from 1923 Director of the Turin Conservatory, and from 1947 to 1950 Director of the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. Alfano died in San Remo. He completed his first opera, "Miranda", still unpublished, for which he also wrote the libretto based on a novel by Antonio Fogazzaro in 1896. His work "La Fonte Di Enschir" (libretto by Luigi Illica) was refused by Ricordi but was presented in Wrocław