archaeologist and curator, died in Rapallo in 1929 and is buried in the non-Catholic section of Cimitero Urbano. The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius stayed with his family in Rapallo in 1901, where he conceived ideas for his Symphony No. 2. Alexandra Zazzi, Swedish-Italian chef and television personality, was born in 1966 and grew up in Rapallo. Honorary citizens Among the recipients of the honorary citizenship of Rapallo are: Transportation Rapallo railway station, opened in 1868, forms part of the Pisa–La Spezia–Genoa railway. Twin towns Iquique, Chile Literature Rapallo was the first goal for the Finland Swedish author Göran Schildt's travels on the Mediterranean Sea with the ketch Daphne in 1948. Later Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale has a poem entitled "Caffe a Rapallo" in his early collection Ossi di Seppia (Cuttlefish Bones). Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that the ideas for Zarathustra first came to him while walking on two roads surrounding Rapallo, according to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche in the introduction of Thomas Common's translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The writer Ezra Pound spent much of the late 1920s and 1930s living in the town. The author, caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm lived in Rapallo from 1910 until his death in 1956, returning to Britain during World War I and World War II. The American war poet John Allan Wyeth lived in Rapallo during the 1920s and early '30s and is believed to have written his only published poetry collection, This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets, while residing there. The influential theatre designer and artist Gordon Craig lived in Villa Raggio, next door to Beerbohm, from 1917 to 1928. Rapallo is the setting for most of Elmore Leonard's crime novel Pronto. References External links Parco Naturale Regionale di Portofino Information about Rapallo Cities and towns in Liguria Coastal towns in Liguria Italian Riviera