Castle Devachan () is a historic villa situated in

Sanremo Sanremo, also spelled San Remo in English and formerly in Italian, is a (municipality) on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination ...

, Italy.

History

The villa, designed by Pietro Agosti in 1905, was built in 1909. The property originally belonged to John Horace Savile, 5th Earl of Mexborough. He had spent several years in Asia and had grown closer to

Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

. For this reason, at the death of his second wife Sylvia, whom the villa was originally named after, the villa was renamed into Castle Devachan. Within Buddhist theosophy, '' Devachan'' refers to the temporary, intermediate state of being before the soul's eventual rebirth into the physical world.H.P. Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary''. Theosophical Publishing Society, 1892, page 98 In 1920, the villa hosted the famous

San Remo Conference The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council as an outgrowth of the Paris Peace Conference, held at Castle Devachan in Sanremo, Italy, from 19 to 26 April 1920. The San Remo Resolution ...

. During the

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, the villa became the operational base for the SS in Sanremo, and was the location of the murder of fourteen Italian partisans.

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