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Alassio
Alassio is a town and comune of Liguria, Italy, on the Gulf of Genoa coast, in the province of Savona.
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Albenga
Albenga is a city and comune situated on the Gulf of Genoa on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Savona in Liguria, northern Italy.
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Apennine Mountains
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Apennines
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Apulia
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Basilicata
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Bergeggi
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Bordighera
Bordighera is a town and comune in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy).
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Borsa Italiana
The Borsa Italiana S.p.A., based in Milan, is Italy's main stock exchange. It was privatised in 1997 and acquired by the London Stock Exchange in 2007. In 2005, the companies listed on the Borsa were worth US$890 billion.
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Camogli
Camogli is a small Italian fishing village and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera.
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Carthage
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Ceriale
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Chiavari
Chiavari is a town and comune on the Italian Riviera in the Province of Genoa, region of Liguria. It is situated near the mouth of the Entella River, in the center of a fertile plain surrounded by mountains except on the southwest, where it comes down to the Mediterranean Sea. Tourist interest in this town is due to the very clean sea (Blue Flag for clean waters from 1987 until today) and to the expansion of its historical center, that includes typical Genoese style palaces of great value.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. Its objective was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, establishing the boundaries of France, Napoleon's duchy of Warsaw, the Netherlands, the states of the Rhine, the German province of Saxony, and various Italian territories, and the creation of spheres of influence through which France, Austria, Russia and Britain brokered local and regional problems. The Congress of Vienna was a model for the League of Nations and United Nations due to its goal to constitute peace by all parties.
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Finale Ligure
Finale Ligure is a comune on the Gulf of Genoa in the Province of Savona in Liguria, Italy. It is considered part of the Italian Riviera.
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Genoa
Genoa ( , ; in Genoese and Ligurian: Zena, ; in Latin and, archaically, in English: Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000. Genoa's Metropolitan Area has a population of about 1,400,000. It is also called la Superba ("the Superb one") due to its glorious past. Part of the old city of Genoa was inscribed on the World Heritage List (UNESCO) in 2006 (see below). The city's rich art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history, made it 2004's EU Capital of culture.
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Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the short, sandal-shaped Italian Peninsula, the land between the peninsula and the Alps, and a number of islands including Sicily and Sardinia. Corsica is often mistaken to be an Italian island but in fact has been a part of France since 1769. Its total area is , of which is land and .
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Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro is a comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, in Calabria (Italy), on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port, situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in the world.
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Imperia
Imperia is a coastal city and comune in the region of Liguria, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Imperia, and historically it was capital of the Intemelia district of Liguria.
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Laigueglia
Laigueglia is a town and comune in the province of Savona, in Liguria (northern Italy).
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Lazio
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The Ligurian Sea (; ) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, between the Italian Riviera (Liguria and Tuscany) and the islands of Corsica and Elba. The sea is probably named after the ancient Ligures people.
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Luni is a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Ortonovo, province of La Spezia, in the Liguria region of northern Italy. It gives its name to Lunigiana, a region spanning eastern Liguria and northern Tuscany (province of Massa-Carrara).
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Milan
Milan (, ; Western Lombard: Milan, ) is a city in Italy and the capital of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1,310,000, while the urban area is the first in Italy and the fifth largest in the European Union with a population of 4,345,000 over an area of . The Milan metropolitan area, by far the largest in Italy, is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 7,400,000.
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Monterosso al Mare
Monterosso is a town and comune in the province of La Spezia, part of the region of Liguria (northern Italy). It is one of the five villages in Cinque Terre. The town is divided into two distinct parts: the old town and the new town. The two areas are divided by a single tunnel that caters to pedestrians and the very few cars in the town.
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Oneglia
Oneglia was a town in northern Italy on the Ligurian seaside that was joined to Porto Maurizio to form the Comune of Imperia in 1923.
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Orco Feglino
Orco Feglino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region Liguria, located about 50 km southwest of Genoa and about 30 km southwest of Savona in the upper valley of the Aquila stream. It consists of the two villages of Orco and Feglino.
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Porto Maurizio
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Portofino
Portofino (Ligurian: Portofin) is a small Italian fishing village, comune and tourist resort located in the province of Genoa on the Italian Riviera. The town crowded round its small harbour is considered to be among the most beautiful Mediterranean ports.
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Portovenere
Portovenere (sometimes, in English, Porto Venere) is a town and comune (municipality) located on the Ligurian coast of Italy in the province of La Spezia. It comprises the three villages of Fezzano, Le Grazie and Portovenere, and the three islands of Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto. In 1997 Portovenere and the villages of Cinque Terre were designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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The Roman Kingdom () was the monarchical government of the city of Rome and its territories. Little is certain about the history of the Roman Kingdom, as no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it were written during the Republic and Empire and are largely based on legend. However, the history of the Roman Kingdom began with the city's founding, traditionally dated to 753 BC, and ended with the overthrow of the kings and the establishment of the Republic in about 509 BC.
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Savona
Savona (Sann-a in the local dialect of Ligurian) is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Taggia
Taggia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 110 km southwest of Genoa and about 15 km west of Imperia. It has c. 13,000 inhabitants.
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Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea () is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy.
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Ventimiglia
Ventimiglia is a city and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the French-Italian border, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts. Ventimiglia's urban area has a population of 55,000.
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:For other uses of Octavius, see Octavius (disambiguation). For other uses of Octavian, see Octavian (disambiguation). For other uses of Augustus, see Augustus (disambiguation).
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Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1581 – August 2, 1644) was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice.
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Bixio
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Franks
The Franks ( or gens Francorum) were a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the third century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a kingdom on Roman-held soil that was acknowledged by the Romans after 357. In the climate of the collapse of imperial authority in the West, the Frankish tribes were united under the Merovingians and conquered all of Gaul except Septimania in the 6th century. The Salian political elite would be one of the most active forces in spreading Christianity over western Europe.
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Goffredo Mameli
Goffredo Mameli (September 5, 1827 - July 6, 1849) was an Italian patriot, poet and writer, and a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of the current Italian national anthem.
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Italian people
The Italian people () are a people that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of Jus Sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favorably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and, historically, from ethnic Italians living in the unredeemed territories adjacent to the Italian peninsula.
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Ligures
The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians, Greek: ) were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, a region of north-western Italy.
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List of Italians
This is a list of notable Italians in alphabetical order.
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Lombards
The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, whence the alternative names Langobards and Longobards) were a Germanic people originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italy in 568 under the leadership of Alboin. They established a Lombard Kingdom, later named Kingdom of Italy, which lasted until 774, when it was conquered by the Franks. Their influence on Italian political geography is apparent in the regional appellation Lombardy.
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Louis XIV
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.
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Lyda Borelli
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Mazzini
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Nicolo Paganini
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Pedro Tafur
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Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi (14 September 1914, Genoa - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.
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Pope Benedict XV
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Renata Scotto
Renata Scotto (born February 24, 1934) is an Italian soprano and opera director.
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Renzo Piano
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Rothari
Rothari (or Rothair), of the house of Arodus, was king of the Lombards from 636 to 652; previously he had been duke of Brescia. He succeeded Arioald, who was an Arian like himself, and was one of the most energetic of Lombard kings. Fredegar relates (Chronicle, 71) that at the beginning of his reign he put to death many insubordinate nobles, and that in his efforts for peace he maintained very strict discipline.
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Sandro Botticelli
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Sem Benelli
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Simonetta Vespucci
Simonetta Cattaneo de Vespucci, nicknamed la bella Simonetta(ca. 1453 – 26 April 1476) was the Genoese wife of the Italian nobleman Marco Vespucci of Florence. She also is alleged to have been the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent's younger brother. She was renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age - certainly of the city of Florence. She is depicted in Piero di Cosimo's paintings Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, in which she is portrayed as Cleopatra with an asp around her neck, and The Death of Procris. Countless poems and canvasses by many other painters were also created in her honor.
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Vittorio Gassman
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Little Liguria
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- Duration: 1:27
- Published: 08 Dec 2011
- Updated: 06 Jul 2012
A tilt shift film by Joerg Daiber shot around Finale Ligure in Italy. WATCH FULL SCREEN! Follow us on facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com YouTube: www.youtube.com www.spoonfilm.com Shot with Lumix GH2, Gorillapod, 14-140mm and 7-14mm Lumix Lenses. Edited with Final Cut Pro. Postproduction with After Effects. Music Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 - I. Allegro vivace
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Eccellenze alimentari liguri: obiettivo Germania
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- Duration: 1:03
- Published: 10 Jul 2012
- Updated: 10 Jul 2012
Aziende liguri, cresce numero di domande per mobilità ordinaria
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- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 11 Jul 2012
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
VACANZE IN LIGURIA
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- Duration: 5:32
- Published: 20 May 2009
- Updated: 30 Jun 2012
BELLISSIME LE CINQUE TERRE PER NON PARLARE DI PORTOVENERE..PORTOFINO..LERICI..CHE SPETTACOLO!!!
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Liguria
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- Duration: 8:50
- Published: 04 Dec 2006
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Video about the region I live in. for a friend.
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Liguria and Trofie al Pesto Genovese
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- Duration: 18:32
- Published: 18 Mar 2012
- Updated: 07 May 2012
Northwestern Italy's region of Liguria is where pesto and trofie come from. This video includes a look at the beauty of the region, hand made pesto demonstration in a palace hall of Genova by master chef and curator of the world championship of hand made pesto, Roberto Panizza, visit to the pasta factory of Alta Valle Scrivia where they make Trofie and other Ligurian pasta specialties, and finally a demonstration on how to prepare Trofie al pesto genovese by professional cook Maggie Redic.
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Le Cinque Terre della Liguria
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 15 Apr 2012
- Updated: 13 Jun 2012
Le Cinque Terre sono delle aree mediterranee naturali più belle della Liguria e della costa Tirrena. Cinque miglia di costa rocciosa racchiuse da due promontori, cinque paesini arroccati su speroni di pietra in minuscole insenature. La viticoltura, tipica della zona, ha contribuito a creare un paesaggio unico al mondo con i tipici muri a secco, caratteristici delle colline a strapiombo sul mare cristallino con baie, anfratti ed incantevoli spiaggette tra gli scogli.
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Pietra Ligure - Italy [HD]
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- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 12 Nov 2011
- Updated: 20 May 2012
Pietra Ligure (A Prïa in ligure) è un comune italiano di 9.401 abitanti della provincia di Savona in Liguria. Fa parte della conurbazione che si estende da Borgio Verezzi a Borghetto Santo Spirito (che conta circa 32.000 abitanti), di cui costituisce il secondo centro per popolazione dopo Loano. Il comune rivierasco si estende sulla costa per circa sei chilometri, fra i comuni di Borgio Verezzi e Loano. Le sue coste sono basse e ghiaiose, tipiche della Riviera di Ponente. La città è attraversata dal torrente Maremola. Alle sue spalle si trova il Monte Carmo (1.389 m), prima cima notevole delle Alpi Liguri dopo la Bocchetta di Altare. Pietra Ligure dista dal capoluogo circa 31 km. Pietra Ligure deve il suo nome all'antico castello che si erge sullo spuntone di roccia esposto a nord-est, dominando la baia, la costa e le colline circostanti. Castrum et Oppidum Petrae, il castello di pietra, costruito nel VII - VIII secolo ed abitato a lungo dai vescovi di Albenga, che nel 1100 ne fecero loro dimora estiva. Il centro storico di Pietra Ligure, caratterizzato dai caruggi (le strette vie tipiche dei borghi liguri) è uno dei più tipici e architettonicamente interessanti della Liguria ed è stato ulteriormente valorizzato dopo i recenti lavori di riqualificazione che hanno creato un'isola pedonale che praticamente comprende quasi tutto l'anti nucleo della cittadina. Benché il tessuto commerciale e turistico sia ben sviluppato, la parte più antica del centro storico di Pietra Ligure <b>...</b>
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Tipica accoglienza ligure
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- Duration: 3:28
- Published: 29 Oct 2010
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
Cosa c'è di meglio per il turista, lo straniero e il pellegrino, che trovare riparo dalla tempesta in una calda e accogliente osteria ligure?
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Tornado Cinque Terre Liguria Italy 25 october 2011
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- Duration: 1:24
- Published: 26 Oct 2011
- Updated: 11 Nov 2011
a mesocyclonic ( tornadic) waterspout forms in front of Riomaggiore , Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy, during a long-lasting severe storm 25 october 2011. Flash floods and mudslide killed several people and caused much devastation.
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Savona - Liguria - Italy
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- Duration: 17:22
- Published: 13 Jun 2010
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
Savona About is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea. Savona used to be one of the chief seats of the Italian iron industry, having iron-works and foundries, shipbuilding, railway workshops, engineering shops, and a brass foundry. One of the most celebrated former inhabitants of Savona was the navigator Christopher Columbus, who farmed land in the area while chronicling his journeys. 'Columbus's house', a cottage situated in the Savona hills, lay between vegetable crops and fruit trees. It is just one of many residences in Liguria associated with Columbus. ( source Wikipedia )
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Hard Race Liguria-Tappa Recco OnBoard GoPro Hero
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- Duration: 5:53
- Published: 19 Feb 2012
- Updated: 15 May 2012
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Nubifragio in Liguria - La devastazione vista dall'alto
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- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 26 Oct 2011
- Updated: 29 Feb 2012
Il video della Guardia di Finanza. E' di sette il numero accertato delle vittime dell'alluvione che ha colpito la Liguria e la Toscana. In particolare, secondo quanto afferma la Protezione Civile, nello Spezzino, le persone decedute sono cinque - come riferito dalla prefettura -, ovvero quattro a Borghetto Vara e una a Monterosso. Invece ad Aulla, in provincia di Massa Carrara, le vittime sono due. Resta incerto invece il numero di dispersi nelle due regioni
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Ndrangheta in Liguria - Presa Diretta - 15/01/2012 www.satarlanda.eu
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- Duration: 6:11
- Published: 15 Jan 2012
- Updated: 28 Jun 2012
www.ebooks.avvarad.eu www.satarlanda.eu Iscrivetevi alla pagina Facebook di Satarlanda, aiutatemi a farla crescere www.facebook.com
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Delia's trofie pasta Liguria recipe -- Waitrose
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- Duration: 0:41
- Published: 08 Sep 2011
- Updated: 12 Jul 2012
bit.ly - Delia's truly ingenious and delicious combination of small pasta, new potatoes and green beans. And like most Italian cooking, it is packed with flavour and simple to prepare at home. 1. First, heat some pasta bowls ready for serving. Then, in a large saucepan, heat 2.25 litres salted water and bring it up to a good fierce boil. Add the pasta, stir once and let it boil briskly for 10 minutes without a lid. 2. Meanwhile make the pesto. Put the basil, garlic, pine nuts and olive oil together with some salt into the goblet of a food processor and blend until you have a smooth purée. Then transfer the purée to a bowl and stir in the grated Pecorino Romano. 3. Next, trim the beans and cut each one into three. Wash and slice the potatoes next, leaving the skins on; they need to be about 3-4mm thick. After the pasta has been cooking for 10 minutes, throw in the beans and potatoes. Now give the ingredients another stir and bring the water back to boil, then set the timer for 8 minutes. 4. After that drain the pasta, potatoes and beans in a colander, not completely, as they need a little water still clinging to them. Then tip everything back into the saucepan, add the pesto sauce, and stir it pretty niftily to give everything a good coating. Serve in the hot pasta bowls with the extra Pecorino Romano in a bowl to sprinkle over. A good accompaniment would be some salad leaves sprinkled with a little extra virgin olive oil and some freshly squeezed lemon juice. For more <b>...</b>
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I Parchi della Liguria
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- Duration: 31:38
- Published: 14 Feb 2012
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Questo documentario è la sintesi di nove documentari realizzati sul territorio ligure e riguardanti parchi ed aree protette , nonche sentieri a piedi come l'Alta Via dei Monti liguri, Monte Antola,Monte Beigua, Monte di Portofino,Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre ,Montemarcello Magra, Val d'Aveto, Finalese, Alpi Liguri,Giardini Hambury, Alta via dei Monti liguri ,sono raccontati in una breve sintesi di altrettanti documentari presenti su questo canale..Le riprese sono state effettuate nell'arco di un intero anno e rappresentano i cambiamenti durante le quattro stagioni. La realizzazione è di Vidigraph, la produzione della Regione Liguria, i testi di Andrea Parodi la sceneggiatura e regia di Piero Frattari Anno di produazione 1994
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Liguria, Cinque Terre devastate
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- Duration: 1:41
- Published: 27 Oct 2011
- Updated: 27 Oct 2011
Monterosso la perla delle Cinque Terre devastata dall' alluvione. Flavia Lorenzoni. GUARDA TUTTI I SERVIZI www.tg1.rai.it Tg1 è anche su Facebook http
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Nubifragio Liguria, Monterosso, Varnazze, catastrofe per alluvione. Ottobre 2011 denunceitaliane.it
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 05 Nov 2011
- Updated: 05 Nov 2011
www.denunceitaliane.it Nubifragio in Liguria una catastrofe per un'alluvione che ha fatto morti e danni incredibili a Monterosso e Varnazze. Ottobre 2011
http://wn.com/Nubifragio_Liguria,_Monterosso,_Varnazze,_catastrofe_per_alluvione_Ottobre_2011_denunceitalianeit
Euroflora Fiori e Piante di Liguria
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- Duration: 26:07
- Published: 08 May 2012
- Updated: 08 May 2012
Il film documentario "Euroflora :fiori e piante di Liguria ", presenta le infinite specie di piante e fiori particolari che crescono nel territorio ligure.La storia di Euflora a Genova aiuta a capire il fenomeno.Il prof Enrico Martini ci spiega anche i perchè di questi fenomeni .Si parla anche di parchi naturali ,aree protette, riserve naturali ,parchi urbani , verde pubblico e giardini domestici. Questa che vediamo è solo una breve sintesi di un documentario che dura 70 minuti chi volesse approfondire www,vidigraph.com info@vidigraph.net Il film documentario è stato realizzato da Vidigraph Genova , per la regia di Piero Frattari.
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FILMCARDS - I documentari: Liguria
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- Duration: 28:24
- Published: 24 Mar 2012
- Updated: 23 Jun 2012
Un bel viaggio alla scoperta della Liguria, la bellissima regione di monti e mare ricchissima di scorci paesaggistici stupendi e angoli assolutamente incontaminati. Visitala anche sul nostro sito www.lumafilm.it Regia: Gigi Oliviero Produzione: Luma Film Durata 29'
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Eleonora Daniele - Linea Verde dalla Liguria 12/02/2012
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- Duration: 57:04
- Published: 13 Feb 2012
- Updated: 17 Feb 2012
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Beppe Grillo Vado ligure integrale 29/10/2011
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- Duration: 18:15
- Published: 30 Oct 2011
- Updated: 31 May 2012
beppe grillo contro l'ampliamento della centrale a carbone tirreno power di vado ligure
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Alluvione in Liguria e Toscana 25-10-2011
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- Duration: 8:04
- Published: 26 Oct 2011
- Updated: 18 Apr 2012
Peggiora il bilancio delle vittime dell'alluvione che ha colpito la Liguria e la Toscana nord occidentale. Secondo fonti delle prefetture il numero delle vittime è salito a 5, mentre i dispersi sono 8. Due i morti ad Aulla, in provincia di Massa Carrara, mentre tre corpi sono stati recuperati a Borghetto Vara, dove si conta anche un disperso. Due dispersi sono stati accertati a Pignone, altri due a Vernazza. Ma il bilancio resta provvisorio. A Pignone si scava tra le macerie di una casa crollata, mentre si attendono gli aggiornamenti dai centri più isolati. "Una cosa allucinante" - Angelo Maria Betta, sindaco di Monterosso, intervistato dalla Rai, racconta: "E' una cosa allucinante, tutto il piano terra del paese pieno di terra e sassi. Siamo senza viveri, senza luce, senza acqua, senza fognature. Siamo isolati e siamo duemila persone. Stamattina abbiamo potuto vedere una enorme voragine sotto il ponte della ferrovia che attraversa il centro del Paese, anche il ponte è pericoloso. Abbiamo anche un volontario disperso dalle 20 di ieri sera". E' da Monterosso che arrivano le immagini (qui sopra) che rendono chiara la drammaticità della situazione. 500 millimetri di pioggia in poche ore - Il primo vero allarme nazionale intorno alle 13 di martedì quando una frana si è staccata invadendo le due carreggiate dell'autostrada A12 tra Brugnato e Carrodano, in provincia di La Spezia. In poche ore sono caduti oltre 500 millimetri di pioggia, che hanno fatto straripare fiumi e <b>...</b>
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Creative Commons![Panorama of La Spezia (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈspɛtsi̯a]; About this sound listen (help·info)) (Spèza in the local dialect of Ligurian) at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy is the capital city of the province of La Spezia.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120716052218im_/http://cdn7.wn.com/pd/87/95/481aadf290d383fdc3c6de036e15_small.jpg "Panorama of La Spezia (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈspɛtsi̯a]; About this sound listen (help·info)) (Spèza in the local dialect of Ligurian) at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy is the capital city of the province of La Spezia.")
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![Panorama of La Spezia (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈspɛtsi̯a]; About this sound listen (help·info)) (Spèza in the local dialect of Ligurian) at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy is the capital city of the province of La Spezia.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120716052218/http://cdn1.wn.com/pd/87/95/481aadf290d383fdc3c6de036e15_medium.jpg "Panorama of La Spezia (Italian pronunciation: [la ˈspɛtsi̯a]; About this sound listen (help·info)) (Spèza in the local dialect of Ligurian) at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy is the capital city of the province of La Spezia.")
![Ventimiglia[1] is a town and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located 130 km southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the Franco-Italian frontier, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120716052218/http://cdn1.wn.com/pd/6c/6b/37c890b2e04f60b7cea3f8747bf0_medium.jpg "Ventimiglia[1] is a town and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located 130 km southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the Franco-Italian frontier, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts.")
 is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. It was founded in Roman times and is now best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera and the host of cultural events such as the Sanremo Music Festival and the Milan-Sanremo cycling classic arrival. It is widely accepted as the origin of the Five-card stud variant, Telesina[2].](http://web.archive.org./web/20120716052218/http://cdn4.wn.com/pd/07/c3/b5600dc221babbff5768b3c1e8d7_medium.jpg "Sanremo[1](Sanrœmu in Ligurian) is a city with about 57,000 inhabitants on the Mediterranean coast of western Liguria in north-western Italy. It was founded in Roman times and is now best known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera and the host of cultural events such as the Sanremo Music Festival and the Milan-Sanremo cycling classic arrival. It is widely accepted as the origin of the Five-card stud variant, Telesina[2].")
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| Liguria | |||
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| Country | Italy | ||
| Capital | Genoa | ||
| Government | |||
| • President | Claudio Burlando (PD) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 5,422 km2 (2,093 sq mi) | ||
| Population (1 January 2011) | |||
| • Total | 1,617,000 | ||
| • Density | 300/km2 (770/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| GDP/ Nominal | € 44.1[1] billion (2008) | ||
| GDP per capita | € 27,100[2] (2008) | ||
| NUTS Region | ITC | ||
| Website | www.regione.liguria.it | ||
Liguria (pronounced [liˈɡuːrja], Ligurian: Ligûria) is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and good food.
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Geography[link]
Liguria is bordered by France to the west, Piedmont to the north, and Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the east. It lies on the Ligurian Sea. The narrow strip of land is bordered by the sea, the Alps and the Apennines mountains. Some mountains rise above 2000 m; the watershed line runs at an average altitude of about 1000 m.
The winding arched extension goes from Ventimiglia to La Spezia and is one of the smallest regions in Italy. Liguria is just 5,422 square kilometres, or 1.18% of all of Italy. Of this, 3524.08 kilometres are mountainous (65% of the total) and 891.95 square kilometres are hills (35% of the total). Liguria's Natural Reserves cover 12% of the entire region, or 60,000 hectares of land. They are made up of one National Reserve, six large parks, two smaller parks and three nature reserves.
The continental shelf is very narrow, and so steep it descends almost immediately to considerable marine depths along its 315-km coastline. Except for the Portovenere and Portofino promontories, it is generally not very jagged, and is often high. At the mouths of the biggest watercourses there are small beaches, but there are no deep bays and natural harbours except for those of Genoa and La Spezia.
The ring of hills lying immediately beyond the coast together with the sea account for a mild climate year-round. Average winter temperatures are 7 to 10 °C (45 to 50 °F) and summer temperatures of 23 to 24 °C (73 to 75 °F), which make for a pleasant stay even in the dead of winter. Rainfall can be abundant at times, as mountains very close to the coast create an orographic effect. Genoa and La Spezia can see up to 2,000 mm (79 in) of rain in a year; other areas instead show the normal Mediterranean rainfall of 500 to 800 mm (20 to 31 in) annually.
History[link]
Traces of Neanderthal Man were discovered in the region of Loano, whereas in Ventimiglia, in the grotto of "Balzi Rossi", numerous remains were found which recall those of Cro-Magnon Man. According to the written sources we have about the settlements of the Ligurians (Ligures), the presence of this people of Mediterranean origin dates back to the first millennium B.C. on a vast territory including most of north-western Italy. This people, divided into several tribes, numbered less than two hundred thousand.[citation needed]
During the first Punic War, the ancient Ligurians were divided, some of them siding with Carthage and a minority with Rome, whose allies included the future Genoese.[3] Eric Brousseau has argued in his recent award winning book on Liguria that Roman foreign policy towards Liguria was often determined by domestic politics and the personal ambition of individual Roman commanders, transforming Liguria into one of the most exciting regions in Roman Italy.[4] After the Roman conquest of the region, the so-called IX regio, named Liguria, was created in the reign of Princeps Augustus, when Liguria was expanded from the coast to the banks of Po River. The great Roman roads (Aurelia and Julia Augusta on the coast, Postumia and Aemilia Scauri towards the inland) helped strengthen the territorial unity and increase exchanges and trade. Important towns developed on the coast, of which evidences are left in the ruins of Albenga, Ventimiglia and Luni. Between the 4th and the 10th centuries Liguria was dominated by the Byzantines, the Lombards of King Rothari (about 641) and the Franks (about 774) and it was invaded by the Saracens (according to Arthur Hill Hassall, under Saracen occupation and rule from c. 876 – c. 972)[5] and the Normans. In the 10th century, once the danger of pirates decreased, the Ligurian territory was divided into three marches: Obertenga (east), Arduinica (west) and Aleramica (centre). In the 11th and 12th centuries the marches were split into fees, and then with the strengthening of the bishops’ power, the feudal structure began to partially weaken. The main Ligurian towns, especially on the coast, became city-states, over which Genoa soon extended its rule. Inland, however, fees belonging to noble families survived for a very long time.[vague]
Between the 11th century (when the Genoese ships played a major role in the first crusade, carrying knights and troops to the Middle-East for a fee) and the 15th century, the Republic of Genoa experienced an extraordinary political and commercial success (mainly spice trades with the Orient). It was one of the most powerful maritime republic in the Mediterranean from the 12th to the 14th century: after the decisive victory in the battle of Meloria (1284), it acquired control over the Tyrrhenian Sea and was present in the nerve centres of power during the last phase of the Byzantine empire, having colonies up to Black Sea and Crimean. After the introduction of the title of doge for life (1339) and the election of Simone Boccanegra, Genoa resumed its struggles against the Marquis of Finale and the Counts of Laigueglia and it conquered again the territories of Finale, Oneglia and Porto Maurizio. In spite of its military and commercial successes, Genoa fell prey to the internal factions which put pressure on its political structure.
Due to the vulnerable situation, the rule of the republic went to the hands of the Visconti family of Milan. After their expulsion by the popular forces under Boccanegra’s lead, the republic remained in Genoese hands until 1396, when the internal instability led the doge Antoniotto Adorno to surrender the title of Seignior of Genoa to the king of France. The French were driven away in 1409 and Liguria went back under Milanese control in 1421, thus remaining until 1435. The alternation of French and Milanese dominions over Liguria went on until the first half of the 16th century. The French influence ceased in 1528, when Andrea Doria became the prestigious ally of the powerful king of Spain and imposed an aristocratic government which gave the republic a relative stability for about 250 years.
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Giuseppe Mazzini was a patriot, philosopher and politician of the 19th century.
The impoverishment of the commercial routes with the Near East forced the Ligurian notables to engage, since then, in financial speculation. The international crises of the 17th century, which ended for Genoa with the bombing (1684) by King Louis XIV’s fleet, restored the French influence over the republic. Right because of this influence, the Ligurian territory was traversed by the Piedmontese and Austrian armies when these two states came into conflict with Versailles. The limit was reached with the Austrian occupation of Genoa in 1746. The Habsburgic troops were driven away by a popular insurrection in the same year. Napoleon’s first Italy campaign marked the end of the secular republic which, by the Emperor's will, was transformed into Ligurian Republic, according to the model of the French Republic. After the union of Oneglia and Loano (1801), Liguria was annexed to the French Empire (1805) and divided by Napoleon into three departments: Montenotte, with capital Savona, Genoa and the department of the Apennines, with capital Chiavari.
After a short period of independence in 1814, the Congress of Vienna (1815) decided that Liguria should be annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Genoese uprising against the House of Savoy in 1821, which was put down with great bloodshed, aroused the population’s national sentiments. Some of the most prestigious figures of the Risorgimento were born in Liguria (Mazzini, Mameli, Bixio). The great Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi, though of Ligurian tradition, was born in Nice, which today is in the French territory, but geographically and culturally belong to the Occitan nor-nation area. However, this city has never been under the Genoese or, more in general, the Ligurian control. It, with the surrounding lands, had been ruled firstly in the County of Savoy, and then, as County of Nice, in the Kingdom of Sardinia. In the first years of the century the region’s economic growth was remarkable: a lot of industries flourished from Imperia to La Spezia. During the tragic period of World War II Liguria experienced hunger and two years of occupation by the German troops, against whom a liberation struggle was led among the most effective in Italy, when allied troops finally reached it they were welcomed by partisans which, in a successful insurrection, had freed the city and accepted the surrender of the local German command. For this feat the city has been awarded the gold medal for military valour.
Culture[link]
Mountains and steep cliffs that rise loftily out of the Ligurian Sea in the most northerly part of the Western Mediterranean. This is the fascinating landscape that will impress people on their journey through this historically rich and dynamic region. The capital Genoa, one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean and home to Christopher Columbus, was already a powerful maritime state in the Middle Ages. Today one can find impressive buildings, elegant mansions, and wonderful churches — all of which bear witness to Liguria's glorious past and which blend in perfectly with the modern city. In other parts of Liguria, there are also numerous historical treasures. An intact and luxuriant Mediterranean vegetation exists in the mountain regions of Portofino and Cinque Terre. On the other hand, Portovenere is a small jewel on the Mediterranean coast. Sanremo is one of Italy's most famous bathing resorts and the place where the annual Italian pop music festival takes place. The beautiful Benedict monastery S. Fruttuoso merits special attention. And needless to say there are many other important historical monuments to be explored.
Liguria is where pesto is originally from, one of the most popular sauces in Italian cuisine. Seafood is a major staple of Ligurian cuisine, as the sea has been part of the region's culture since its beginning. Another important aspect of the culture there is the beach. Tourists have been flocking to the Italian Riviera for decades to experience its calm, deep blue water.
Demographics[link]
| Historical populations | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1861 | 829,000 | — |
| 1871 | 884,000 | +6.6% |
| 1881 | 936,000 | +5.9% |
| 1901 | 1,086,000 | +16.0% |
| 1911 | 1,207,000 | +11.1% |
| 1921 | 1,338,000 | +10.9% |
| 1931 | 1,423,000 | +6.4% |
| 1936 | 1,467,000 | +3.1% |
| 1951 | 1,567,000 | +6.8% |
| 1961 | 1,735,000 | +10.7% |
| 1971 | 1,854,000 | +6.9% |
| 1981 | 1,808,000 | −2.5% |
| 1991 | 1,676,000 | −7.3% |
| 2001 | 1,572,000 | −6.2% |
| 2011 | 1,617,000 | +2.9% |
| Source: ISTAT 2001 | ||
Population density of Liguria is much higher than the national average (300 inhabitants per km2, or 770 per sq mi), being inferior only to Campania's, Lombardy's and Latium's. In the province of Genoa, it reaches almost 500 inhabitants per km2, whereas in the provinces of Imperia and Savona it is less than 200 inhabitants per km2. The Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur, noting it from sea in 1436, remarked "To one who does not know it, the whole coast from Savona to Genoa looks like one continuous city, so well inhabited is it, and so thickly studded with houses,"[6] and today over 80% of the regional population still lives permanently near to the coast, where all the four major cities above 50,000 are located: Genoa (pop. 610,000), La Spezia (pop. 95,000), Savona (pop. 62,000) and Sanremo (pop. 56,000).
The population of Liguria has been declining from 1971 to 2001, most markedly in the cities of Genoa, Savona and La Spezia. The age pyramid now looks more like a 'mushroom' resting on a fragile base.[7] The negative trend has been partially interrupted only in the last decade when, after a successful economic recovery, the region has attracted consistent fluxes of immigrants. As of 2008, the Italian national institute of statistics, ISTAT, estimated that 90,881 foreign-born immigrants live in Liguria, equal to 5.8% of the total regional population.[8]
Economy[link]
See also: Liguria wine
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Ligurian agriculture has increased its specialisation pattern in high-quality products (flowers, wine, olive oil) and has thus managed to maintain the gross value-added per worker at a level much higher than the national average (the difference was about 42% in 1999).[9] The value of flower production represents over 75% of the agriculture sector turnover, followed by animal farming (11.2%) and vegetable growing (6.4%).
Steel, once a major industry during the booming 1950s and 1960s, phased out after the late 1980s crisis, as Italy moved away from the heavy industry to pursue more technologically advanced and less polluting productions. So the Ligurian industry has turned towards a widely diversified range of high-quality and high-tech products (food, shipbuilding, electrical engineering and electronics, petrochemicals, aerospace etc.). Nonetheless, the regions still maintains a flourishing shipbuilding sector (yacht construction and maintenance, cruise liner building, military shipyards).[9] In the services sector, the gross value-added per worker in Liguria is 4% above the national average. This is due to the increasing diffusion of modern technologies, particularly in commerce and tourism. A good motorways network (376 km in 2000) makes communications with the border regions relatively easy. The main motorway is located along the coastline, connecting the main ports of Nice (in France), Savona, Genoa and La Spezia. The number of passenger cars per 1000 inhabitants (524 in 2001) is below the national average (584). In average, about 17 million tones of cargo are shipped from the main ports of the region and about 57 million tonnes enter the region.[9] The Port of Genoa, with a trade volume of 58.6 million tonnes [10] it is the first port of Italy,[11] the second in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units after the port of transshipment of Gioia Tauro, with a trade volume of 1.86 million TEUs.[10] The main destinations for the cargo-passenger traffic are Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Barcelona and Canary Islands.
Government and politics[link]
Main article: Politics of Liguria
The politics of Liguria takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council. The Regional Government is presided by the Governor, who is elected for a five-year term, and is composed by the President and the Ministers, who are currently 11, including a Vice President.[12] The Regional Council of is composed of 40 members and it's elected for a five-year term, but, if the President suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the simul stabunt vel simul cadent prevision (introduced in 1999), also the Council will be dissolved and there will be a fresh election. In the last regional election, which took place on 28–29 March 2010, incumbent Claudio Burlando (Democratic Party) defeated Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to The People of Freedom). At both national and local level Liguria is considered a swing region, where no one of the two coalition is dominant.
Administrative divisions[link]
Liguria is divided into four provinces:
| Province | Area (km²) | Population | Density (inh./km²) |
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| Province of Genoa | 1,838 | 884,945 | 481.5 |
| Province of Imperia | 1,156 | 220,217 | 190.5 |
| Province of La Spezia | 881 | 222,602 | 252.7 |
| Province of Savona | 1,545 | 265,194 | 185.2 |
Gallery[link]
Famous Ligurians[link]
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- Cristoforo Colombo
- Simonetta Vespucci
- Giuseppe Mazzini
- Andrea Doria
- Simon Boccanegra
- Benedetto XV
- Urbano VII
- Nicolo Paganini
- Eugenio Montale
- Pietro Germi
- Italo Calvino
- Edmondo de Amicis
- Luciano Berio
- Sem Benelli
- Bernardo Strozzi
- Renzo Piano
- Vittorio Gassman
- Renata Scotto
- Lyda Borelli
- Giancarlo Giannini
References[link]
- ^ "Eurostat – Tables, Graphs and Maps Interface (TGM) table". Epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu. 12 August 2011. http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00003&plugin=1. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- ^ EUROPA – Press Releases – Regional GDP per inhabitant in 2008 GDP per inhabitant ranged from 28% of the EU27 average in Severozapaden in Bulgaria to 343% in Inner London
- ^ Brousseau, Eric E. Liguria and You: A Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010: 57–58.
- ^ Brousseau, Eric E. (2010). Liguria and You: A Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. pp. 26–32..
- ^ San Remo and the western Riviera climatically and medically considered by Arthur Hill Hassall p. 5
- ^ Pedro Tafur, Andanças e viajes por diversas partes del mundo
- ^ "Eurostat". Circa.europa.eu. http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc3_pop.htm. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". Demo.istat.it. http://demo.istat.it/strasa2008/index.html. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ a b c "Eurostat". Circa.europa.eu. http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/itc3_eco.htm. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
- ^ a b "Autorità Portuale di Genova — Traffico porto". Porto.genova.it. http://www.porto.genova.it/dati/traffico_porto/traffico_porto.jsp. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- ^ "Inf_07_05_Statistiche dei trasporti marittimi 2002–2004" (PDF). http://www.istat.it/dati/catalogo/20070406_00/inf_07_05_statistiche_trasporti_marittimi_2002_2004.pdf. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- ^ "Regione Liguria – - sito ufficiale". Regione.liguria.it. http://www.regione.liguria.it/MenuSezione.asp?Parametri=1_2_2_$1_2_2_$Giunta$0$. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
In section on Liguria Italy under special personalities the omission of Giovanni Cassini is a great surprise. He was a native of Perinaldo of the 17th century and famous for his contribution to mathematics and astronomy.
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| Born | (1976-08-20) August 20, 1976 (age 35) Padua, ITA |
| Nationality |  Italian |
| Occupation | TV Host |
Eleonora Daniele (born Padua, Italy on 20 August 1976) is an Italian television presenter.[1] She currentlty hosts the early morning program, Unomattina, on Rai Uno.
References[link]
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