Liguria

Liguria (/lɪˈɡ(j)ʊəriə/, Italian: [liˈɡuːrja]; Ligurian: Ligûriacode: lij is deprecated , [liˈɡyːɾja]) is a region of Northern Italy. The capital is Genoa. The population was about 1,557,533 in 2017.

Provinces

A view of Cinque Terre
Alpi Liguri Picture taken and edited by user Idefix juli 2003
Apennine Mountains and Trebbia river
Palazzo Doria Tursi part of the Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli World Heritage Site.
Italian Riviera, travel poster for ENIT, ca. 1920.
The Balzi Rossi caves, located on a cliff about 100 meters high, show traces of human occupation from the Middle Palaeolithic (300,000 years) to the foundation of the ancient city of Ventimiglia in Liguria. This constitutes the longest human occupation in the world of a geographical site.
Burial of an adolescent from the Upper Palaeolithic (29,000 years), having led archaeologists to nickname him the "young prince". About fifteen years old, he lay on his back on a layer of red ocher seven meters from the surface facing south, he wore a headgear decorated with shell beads and pierced deer teeth and squirrel tails on the thorax (Liguria region).
The Polcevera bronze tablet, evidence of Genoa's Roman and pre-Roman past
Map of Roman Regio IX Liguria, between the River Var and Magra
The Roman amphitheatre of Luni (1st century AD)

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