Liguria

Map of Roman Liguria, between the River Var and Magra

Map of ancient Liguria, between the river Var and Magra. Cannes was annexed by France in Middle Ages.

County of Nice western part of Liguria annexed by France in 1860

The Roman amphitheatre of Luni (1st century AD)

Simonetta Vespucci, a native Ligurian who was a famous beauty during the Renaissance, may have been the model for Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

Territories of the Republic of Genoa (shown in purple)

Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus, by Sebastiano del Piombo

Reparation faite à Louis XIV par le Doge de Gênes.15 mai 1685 by Claude Guy Halle

Giuseppe Mazzini was a patriot, philosopher and politician of the 19th century.

Apricale with Monte Bignone in the background

The port of Genoa is the busiest in Italy.

Region of north-western Italy; its capital is Genoa.

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Ligures

Iron Age groups within the Italian peninsula. Liguria is located in the upper left corner of the map.

The languages of the Italian peninsula in the 3rd century BC. J.-C.. In pink, languages of non-Indo-European origins.

The N4 zone in purple corresponding to the Ligurian ethnic group. It is between the Var rivers in the West, the Po in the North, and the Magra in the East.

Roman Liguria, between the rivers of Var in the West, of Po in the North, and of Magra in the East.

Ancient Liguria. The ethnico-cultural boundaries were the rivers of Po, Var and Magra. The Roman Regio IX Liguria.

Pre-historic pile dwellings settlements in northern Italy

Simplified map of the ancient tribes of Corsica

Etruscan expansion in the south Po Valley, and in Corsica

Celtic tribal groups of France, and the Ligurians to the east of the Var river in the Italian geographical area. The Var is an ethno-cultural separation between the Celtic populations of Western Europe in the west, and the Italic Mediterranean populations of southern Europe.

Reproduction of the Pulica helmet, revovered into an Apuani grave

Roman Italy, showing Liguria located between the rivers of the Var and Magra and Po.

Pertinax, Roman emperor in 193 A.D. from Alba Pompeia, Liguria.

Statue-menhir of a warrior revovered in Zignago

The eastern hemisphere in the 3rd Century BC, prior to the Roman Republic's incorporation of Liguria (upper right).

The Ligures (singular Ligur; Italian: liguri; English: Ligurians; Greek: λιγούρες) were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named.

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains ( or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons – a singular with plural meaning; Appennini ) are a mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending c. 1200 km along the length of peninsular Italy.

The plaque marking the Bocchetta di Altare

Monte Cimone (2165 m) in Emilia Romagna, is the highest mountain of the northern Apennines

Source of the Tiber, marked by a column with an eagle and wolves, part of the Apennine fauna and symbols of Rome

The Monti Picentini, in the Campanian Apennines.

The Pizzo Carbonara, 6,493 feet (1,979 m), is the highest peak of the Sicilian Appenino siculo, which forms part of the Calabrian southern Apennines.

The Pietra di Bismantova, Emilian Apennines, Emilia-Romagna

A pillow lava from an ophiolite sequence, Northern Apennines

Serra Dolcedorme, the highest summit in Southern Apennine

The mountains tend to be named from the province or provinces in which they are located; for example, the Ligurian Apennines are in Liguria.

Genoa

Territories of the Republic of Genoa, around the Mediterranean & Black Sea coasts.

St. George's flag flying on the Doge's Palace in Genoa

Doge's Palace, ancient seat of the government of the oligarchic republic

Medieval gates of Genoa are a rare survivor of the city's oldest buildings.

The gardens of Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini

Genoa Airport, built on an artificial peninsula

Portrait of a Young Man, by Albrecht Dürer. Gallery of Palazzo Rosso.

Sculpture in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno.

Genoa (Genova, ), Zêna is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

Ventimiglia

Ventimiglia (Ventemiglia, Vintimiggia; Vintimille ; Ventemilha ) is a resort town in the province of Imperia, Liguria, northern Italy.

La Spezia

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, thirteenth century.

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, 1862.

La Spezia (, or, ; A Spèza in the local Spezzino dialect) 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.

Emilia-Romagna

One of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, situated in the north of the country, comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna.

Seat of the Regional Assembly of Emilia-Romagna in Bologna

Wheat fields in Province of Reggio Emilia

Ferrari 458 Spider.The provinces of Modena and Bologna are well known for their sport car industry

Bernardo Bertolucci's star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

The history of Emilia-Romagna dates back to Roman times when the region of Emilia was ruled by imperial judges linked to the nearby regions of either Liguria or Tuscany.

Tuscany

Thornthwaite climate classification of Tuscany

The Chimera of Arezzo, Etruscan bronze, 400 BC

Hanging and burning of Girolamo Savonarola in Piazza della Signoria in Florence 1498 - Painting depicting Renaissance Florence

Memorial to the victims of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, in which 560 locals were murdered by Nazi Germans and Italian Fascists in 1944

A painting from the Sienese School by Pietro Lorenzetti

Tuscan poet and literary figure Petrarch

An assortment of Tuscan foods: various wine and cheese, and different sorts of salamis and hams

The Via de' Tornabuoni in Florence, the city's top fashion and shopping street, contains some of the world's most luxurious clothing and jewelry houses, such as Cartier, Ferragamo, Gucci, Versace and Bulgari

Sunflower field near Castiglione della Pescaia, Maremma

Tuscan landscape near Barga between the Apuan Alps and the Apennine Mountains

A page from Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (1202)

Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy

Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince

Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany

Pinocchio, created by Carlo Collodi (1883)

Roughly triangular in shape, Tuscany borders the regions of Liguria to the northwest, Emilia-Romagna to the north, Marche and Umbria to the east, and Lazio to the southeast.

Republic of Genoa

Galata Tower (1348) in Galata, Istanbul.

Territories of the Republic of Genoa (economic influence areas shown in pink) around the mediterranean & Black Sea coasts, 1400, since the Codex Latinus Parisinus (1395).

Map showing the political divisions of Italy in 1499

A view of Genoa and its fleet by Christoforo de Grassi (1597 copy, after a drawing of 1481); Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa.

Genoese soldiers during the War of the Austrian Succession

The Palace of the Doges view from Piazza Matteotti.

The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna ; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the 11th century to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.