Italy - Viareggio

General Omegna sits at the northernmost point of Lake Orta, about a hundred kilometres northeast of Turin and thirteen kilometres southwest of Verbania, and it is a town cut in two by water. The lake ends here and leaves the basin as the Nigoglia, the short river that crosses the …

General Pisa lies across the Arno a few kilometres before the river reaches the Ligurian Sea, and the water divides the town into two halves that have grown towards each other for two thousand years. The city is the capital of its province and has more than twenty historic church …

General Livorno is a port city on the Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany and the capital of the province of the same name, with about 152,000 inhabitants the twenty-fifth largest city in Italy. English speakers knew it for centuries as Leghorn, a name that travelled through Genoese into …

General Viareggio lies on the coast of northern Tuscany, on the Ligurian Sea that is usually called the Tyrrhenian here, and it is the second largest city of the province of Lucca after Lucca itself. The built-up area runs for about ten kilometres along a sandy shore, six of them …

General Florence is the capital of Tuscany and stands on the Arno where the river leaves the Apennines for the coastal plain, about 230 kilometres north of Rome. The comune counts roughly 360,000 inhabitants, the historic centre covers about five hundred hectares on both banks, a …

General Siena is a hill town in the centre of Tuscany and the capital of its province, with 53,180 inhabitants the twelfth largest city in the region. It stands at 322 metres above sea level in the middle of a wide hilly landscape, between the valley of the Arbia to the south, th …

General Levigliani is a hamlet of the comune of Stazzema in the Versilia, the north-western corner of Tuscany that is made up of Forte dei Marmi, Pietrasanta, Seravezza and Stazzema. It is one of the seventeen hamlets of the municipality, and the road to it leaves the coast at Pi …

General Lucca lies on the river Serchio in a fertile plain of northern Tuscany, about twenty kilometres inland from the coast at Viareggio and roughly the same distance to the north east of Pisa. It has some ninety thousand inhabitants and is the capital of its province, and the …

General Carrara lies at the northern tip of Tuscany, in the province of Massa and Carrara, on the plain between the Apuan Alps and the Ligurian coast, about fifteen kilometres from the sea. The town is the centre of the marble district that covers the western slopes of the range …

General The village stands on the first ridge of hills behind the Tyrrhenian coast, a few kilometres inland from the shore. Its houses occupy a shelf of ground high enough to catch the evening breeze and low enough for olives and vines to grow on the terraces around them. The roa …

General Rosignano Solvay is a Tuscan coastal town in the province of Livorno, on the Tyrrhenian shore about twenty five kilometres south of Livorno, between that city and the Maremma. It is a frazione of the comune of Rosignano Marittimo, whose older centre stands on a hill a few …