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Vernazza (Ligurian: Vernassa, locally Vernasa; Latin: Vulnetia) is a town and comune located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northwestern Italy. It is one of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre region.
Vernazza is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [2] The Cinque Terre area is a popular tourist destination. Over the centuries, people have built terraces on the rugged, steep landscape right up to the cliffs that overlook the Ligurian Sea. Paths, trains, and boats connect the villages as cars can only ...
Map of the Mediterranean Sea and subdivisions. Marked are subdivisions according to the International Hydrographic Organization. Some additional seas are marked in quotes, which are commonly used but not recognised by the IHO. Date: 1 June 2011, 15:02 (UTC) Source: BlankMap-Europe_no_boundaries.svg; Author: BlankMap-Europe_no_boundaries.svg ...
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Eduardo Vernazza (13 October 1910 – 26 May 1991) was a Uruguayan artist and art critic. Vernazza was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to parents immigrated from Genoa, Italy. [citation needed] He was an illustrator [1] and art critic for the Uruguayan newspaper El Día. UNESCO chose him to be a representative of the Art Critics of Uruguay. [2]
A double-track line was opened between Monterosso and Corniglia on 15 January 1962, including a new station at Vernazza, [3] [4] which was located to the east of the old station between the Riolo and Vernazza tunnels. Due to the lack of available space, the new infrastructure was built partly in the open air on the site of the goods siding on ...
Nicolas Sanson, Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651. The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The Levant, including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus (also known as the Levant), Egypt, Greek Dodecanese and Anatolian Turkey. [11]
A Mediterranean forest, in the Region of Murcia . The Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome mostly occurs in, but not limited to, the Mediterranean climate zones, in the mid-latitudes: [1] the Mediterranean Basin; the Chilean Matorral; the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of the Californias and Oregon; the Fynbos of ...