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La Spezia (UK: / l æ ˈ s p ɛ t s i ə /, US: / l ɑː-/ or / l ɑː ˈ s p ɛ t s i ɑː,-ˈ s p eɪ t-/; [3] [4] [5] Italian: [la ˈspɛttsja] ⓘ; Ligurian: A Spèza, in the local Spezzino dialect [it; lij]) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy.
Port of La Spezia. Port of La Spezia (Italian: Porto della Spezia) is a port in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. The port of La Spezia is one of the largest commercial ports in the Ligurian Sea, and is located in the northernmost part of the Gulf of La Spezia. Its development dates from the late nineteenth century and has since grown to become one of ...
The Naples Historic District is a U.S. historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, located in Naples, Florida. [1] The 500 acres (2.0 km 2) district is bounded by Ninth Avenue S, 3rd Street, Thirteenth Avenue S, and the Gulf of Mexico. It contains 65 historic houses, two historic commercial buildings, and 26 ...
The La Spezia trolleybus system (Italian: Rete filoviaria della Spezia) forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of La Spezia, in the region of Liguria, northwest Italy. The current system is in operation since 1951; previously, at the start of the twentieth century, La Spezia was served by a pioneering experimental system.
Cinque Terre National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre) is a protected area inducted as an Italian national park in 1999.Located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy, it is the smallest national park in Italy at 4,300 acres, but also the densest with 5,000 permanent inhabitants among the five towns.
Also at this time, the construction of the Genoa–La Spezia rail line began, putting an end to Vernazza's long isolation. The population of Vernazza increased by 60% as a result. Meanwhile, the construction of La Spezia's naval base also proved important to Vernazza in providing employment for many members of the community.
Palmaria is an Italian island situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. With an area of 1.6 square kilometres (0.6 sq mi), it is the largest island of an archipelago of three closely spaced islands jutting from the mainland at Portovenere. The outer islands, Tino and the tiny Tinetto, lie further south.
The Venus Kallipygos, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.. The Italian city of Naples has a number of museums. Two are national museums: the National Archaeological Museum or Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, which holds significant collections of artifacts of the Roman Empire, [1] including objects unearthed at Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as some artifacts from the Greek ...