Map of Italy showing La Spezia in the northwest La Spezia is a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy, at the head of La Spezia Gulf, and capital city of the province of La Spezia. It is one of the major Italian military and commercial harbours, located between Genoa and Pisa on the Ligurian Sea. La Spezia also hosts one of the biggest military industries of Italy, OTO Melara. [Image:Example. ...
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Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...
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Location within Italy Flag of Genoa Christopher Columbus monument in Piazza Aquaverde Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Génova,Galician Xénova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. ...
Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ...
The Ligurian Sea. ...
Oto Melara is a Italian defence company with factories in Brescia and La Spezia. ...
It has no truly remarkable historic or architectural features, apart from the modern (circa 1960) Cristo Re alla Spezia Cathedral and the Lia Art Museum. The post office preserves some Futurist mosaics by Prampolini. The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Table of architecture, Cyclopaedia, 1728 The following article focuses on built environment, the architecture of spaces designed for human habitation. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
A cathedral is a Christian church building, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Anglican, Roman Catholic and some Lutheran churches, which serves as the central church of a diocese, and thus as a bishops seat. ...
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Although La Spezia, peculiar in Italy by being a modern city (almost all buildings date after 1920), has few attractions, its province includes beautiful places like Lerici, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre, all lying on the La Spezia Gulf, on the Tyrrhenian Sea. 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
Lerici is a commune in the province of La Spezia in Liguria. ...
Portovenere is a village in Liguria, Italy located 12km from La Spezia. ...
The Cinque Terre are five coastal villages in the province of La Spezia in Italy. ...
Tyrrhenian Sea. ...
During the Second World War, the city's port was used by the Kriegsmarine as the main base for U-boats operating in the Mediterranean Sea. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
The Kriegsmarine (or War Navy) was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi regime, superseding the Reichsmarine. ...
U-boat is also a nickname for some diesel locomotives built by GE; see List of GE locomotives October 1939. ...
Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
Some famous people from La Spezia
Alexia is an Italian singer, born Alessia Aquilani May 19, 1967 in La Spezia. ...
Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1, 1942) is an Italian actor. ...
Statistics - Area of the commune: 51.39 km²
- Population of the commune: 91,391 (2001 census)
- Geographic coordinates: 44°07′N 9°50′E
- Area of the province: 882 km²
- Population of the province: 215,935 (2001 census)
- Number of communes in the province: 32
See also In the linguistics of the Romance languages, the La Spezia-Rimini Line is a line that refers to a number of important isoglosses that distinguish the eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages. ...
External links - A guide about La Spezia
- Satellite picture by Google Maps
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