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a port city in Liguria on an arm of the Ligurian Sea a major seaport and year-round resort
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La Spezia is a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy, at the head of La Spezia Gulf. 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 industry military industries of Italy, OTO Melara.It has no truly remarkable historic or architecturearchitectural features, apart from the modern (''circa'' 1960) Cristo Re alla Spezia Cathedral and the Lia Art Museum. The post office preserves some Futurism (art)Futurist mosaics by Prampolini.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. 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.
Famous people from La Spezia - Dario Vergassola, actorAlexia (Italian)Alexia, pop music singerPaolo Bertolani, poet
Statistics - Area of the commune: 51.39 km² Population of the commune: 91,391 (2001 census) Geographic coordinates: coor dm4407N950Etype:city(91,391) Area of the province: 882 km² Population of the province: 215,935 (2001 census) Number of communes in the province: 32
See also - La Spezia-Rimini Line
External links - 5terre.com - A guide about La Spezia ? maps.google.com - Satellite picture by Google MapsCategory:Cities in LiguriaSpezia, LaCategory:Italian Rivierade:La Speziaes:La Speziafr:La Speziait:La Spezianl:La Spezia !(stad)ja:ラ・スペツィア no:La? Speziapl:La Speziapt:La Speziaro:La Spezia
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