Italy

General Florence is the capital of the Tuscany region of central Italy and lies in the broad lower valley of the Arno River, where the basin narrows between the wooded hills of the northern Apennines. The historic centre occupies the flat valley floor and remains closely bounded …

General Carrara is a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Massa and Carrara, lying where the western slopes of the Apuan Alps fall toward the Ligurian coastal plain near the sea. The town occupies a narrow strip between the steep, white-scarred mountains …

General Liguria is a coastal region of northwestern Italy, a narrow crescent of land that runs along the Ligurian Sea from the French border in the west toward the Tuscan border in the east. The region is a strip seldom more than a few tens of kilometres deep, where the steep slo …

General Livorno is a port city on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy, on the Ligurian Sea, and the principal maritime gateway between central Italy and the wider Mediterranean. Unlike most Tuscan cities, which grew from medieval hilltop settlements, Livorno was developed deliber …

General Porto Venere is a historic coastal town in northwestern Italy, on the eastern edge of the Ligurian coast at the mouth of the Gulf of La Spezia, where the open Ligurian Sea meets the sheltered waters of the gulf. It stands on a narrow rocky promontory, its densely packed t …

General Siena is a historic city in central Italy, in the Tuscany region some 70 kilometres south of Florence, built on three linked hills that overlook the rolling Tuscan countryside. The city sits above the valleys that run through the clay hills of the Crete Senesi and the Val …