Villa Grock, in Imperia, is also known as Stone Circus because it once was home to the very popular "King of Clowns", Adrien Wettach. His colleague and fellow Swiss citizen, Dimitri (born Jacob Müller) once said: "All Grock needed, being the best of all, were a chair and a violin. He was an unparalleled pinnacle of our art". With such a meager set of tools, he made Europe and the whole world laugh out loud. Even Charlie Chaplin was a fan!

Grock happened in Imperia in the 1920s, and immediately fell in love with the city. He bought a property where he had his villa built, naming it "Villa Bianca" after his stepdaughter. Later "Villa Grock" took his pseudonym, and is now home to the Clown Museum.

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