Liguria
Liguria is a region of Northwest Italy, on the Ligurian Sea. There are wonderful cities that start from the border with France to the border with the Tuscany region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Genoa and Sanremo.
Genoa
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Genoa is a historic port city in northern Italy, the capital of the Liguria region. As a tourist attraction, it is often overshadowed by cities such as Rome or Venice, even though it has a long history as a rich and powerful trade centre.
Sanremo
Sanremo, also spelled San Remo in English and formerly in Italian, is a comune on the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, in northwestern Italy. Founded in Roman times, it has a population of 55,000, and is known as a tourist destination on the Italian Riviera.
La Spezia
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La Spezia is a city and municipality at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the eastern part of the region of Liguria in Italy, the capital of the Province of La Spezia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cinque Terre and Savona.
Cinque Terre
Cinque Terre, which means Five Lands, is a group of five small, coastal villages: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso, located in the Italian region of Liguria.
Savona
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Savona is a coastal city in Liguria, Northwest Italy, the capital of the Province of Savona. It is the third largest city in Liguria, after Genoa and La Spezia.
Imperia
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Imperia is a city of 42,000 people in Liguria. Imperia is well known for the cultivation of flowers and olives, and is a popular summer destination for visitors.
Ventimiglia
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Ventimiglia is a resort town in the province of Imperia, Liguria, northern Italy. It is located 130 km west of Genoa, 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.
Portofino
Portofino is a small fishing village in the Liguria region of Italy on the Ligurian Sea. It is a popular yachting destination.
Rapallo
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Rapallo is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in the region of Liguria in Italy. As of 2025, with a population 29,513, it is the 2nd-largest municipality in the metropolitan city.
Sestri Levante
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Sestri Levante is a city of 18,000 people in Liguria. While nearby Portofino and the Cinque Terre are probably the best-known tourist destinations on the Italian Riviera, Sestri Levante is popular amongst Italians.
Albenga
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Albenga is a town in Liguria, it as ancient town with a well preserved historical centre and a seaside resort.
Seborga
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Seborga is a small town of 320 people in northwest Italy, near the French border. While it is a part of Italy, it is notable for having voted to become an independent micronation called the Principality of Seborga, ruled by a "prince" who was known locally as Sua Tremendità until his death in 2009.
Santa Margherita Ligure
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Santa Margherita Ligure is a delightful little sea-side city in Liguria, in the heart of the Italian Riviera,…
Finale Ligure
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Finale Ligure is a town in Liguria of about 12,000 inhabitants. Finale Ligure consists of three formerly independent towns: Finalmarina close to the sea, Finalpia also on the sea and finally Final Borgo slightly inland.
Moneglia
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Moneglia is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Genoa in the Italian region Liguria, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Genoa. It is a tourist resort on the Riviera di Levante. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Lerici
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Lerici is a small town in Liguria, in the province of La Spezia. Due to the area's popularity among poets and other artists in the early 19th century, this part of the Italian Riviera is known as the Poets' Bay.
Apricale
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Apricale is a comune in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 120 kilometres southwest of Genoa and about 30 kilometres west of Imperia.
Framura
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Framura is a comune in the Province of La Spezia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Genoa and about 25 kilometres northwest of La Spezia.
Liguria
- Type: State with 1,620,000 residents
- Description: Italian region
- Also known as: “LIG”
- Neighbors: Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and Tuscany
- Categories: region of Italy and locality
- Location: Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude of center
44.4778° or 44° 28′ 40″ northLongitude of center
8.7026° or 8° 42′ 10″ eastPopulation
1,620,000Elevation
697 metres (2,287 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Liguria” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ligurië”
- Albanian: “Liguria”
- Amharic: “ሊጉርያ”
- Arabic: “لغرية”
- Arabic: “لِغُرية”
- Arabic: “ليغوريا”
- Aragonese: “Liguria”
- Armenian: “Լիգուրիա”
- Arpitan: “Liguria”
- Arpitan: “Ligurie”
- Asturian: “Liguria”
- Azerbaijani: “Liquriya”
- Balinese: “Liguria”
- Basque: “Liguria”
- Bavarian: “Ligurien”
- Belarusian: “Лігурыя”
- Bosnian: “Ligurija”
- Breton: “Liguria”
- Bulgarian: “Лигурия”
- Catalan: “Ligúria”
- Cebuano: “Liguria”
- Central Bikol: “Liguria”
- Chechen: “Лигури”
- Chinese: “Liguria”
- Chinese: “列古利亞”
- Chinese: “利古里亚大区”
- Chinese: “利古里亞”
- Chinese: “利古里亞大區”
- Chuvash: “Лигури”
- Cornish: “Liguri”
- Corsican: “Liguria”
- Crimean Tatar: “Liguriya”
- Croatian: “Ligurija”
- Czech: “Ligurie”
- Danish: “Liguria”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ligurya”
- Dutch: “Ligurië”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليجوريا”
- Esperanto: “Ligurio”
- Esperanto: “Ligurujo”
- Estonian: “Liguuria”
- Finnish: “Liguria”
- French: “Ligurie”
- Friulian: “Ligurie”
- Galician: “Liguria”
- Georgian: “ლიგურია”
- German: “Ligurien”
- Greek: “Λιγουρία”
- Greek: “Λιγυρία”
- Hakka Chinese: “Li-kú-lî-â”
- Hakka Chinese: “Liguria”
- Hebrew: “ליגוריה”
- Hindi: “लिगुरिया”
- Hungarian: “Liguria”
- Icelandic: “Lígúría”
- Ido: “Liguria”
- Inari Sami: “Liguria”
- Indonesian: “Liguria”
- Interlingua: “Liguria”
- Irish: “Liguria”
- Italian: “Liguria”
- Italian: “Regione Liguria”
- Japanese: “リグーリア州”
- Javanese: “Liguria”
- Kazakh: “Лигурия”
- Kirghiz: “Лигурия”
- Korean: “리구리아 주”
- Korean: “리구리아”
- Korean: “리구리아주”
- Kurdish: “Lîgûrya”
- Ladin: “Liguria”
- Ladino: “Liguria”
- Latin: “Liguria”
- Latvian: “Ligūrija”
- Ligurian: “Liguria”
- Ligurian: “Ligùria”
- Limburgan: “Ligurië”
- Lithuanian: “Ligūrija”
- Lombard: “Liguria”
- Lombard: “Ligüria”
- Luxembourgish: “Ligurien”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Liguria”
- Macedonian: “Лигурија”
- Malay: “Liguria”
- Maltese: “Liguria”
- Maltese: “Ligurja”
- Marathi: “लिगुरिया”
- Mazanderani: “لیگوریا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Liguria”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Liguria”
- Mingrelian: “ლიგურია”
- Neapolitan: “Liguria”
- Northern Frisian: “Liguurien”
- Northern Sami: “Liguria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Liguria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liguria”
- Norwegian: “Liguria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ligúria”
- Ossetian: “Лигури”
- Pampanga: “Liguria”
- Panjabi: “ਲਿਗੂਰੀਆ”
- Papiamento: “Liguria”
- Persian: “لیگوریا”
- Piemontese: “Liguria”
- Polish: “Liguria”
- Portuguese: “Ligúria”
- Quechua: “Liguria”
- Romanian: “Liguria”
- Romansh: “Liguria”
- Russian: “Лигурия”
- Rusyn: “Ліґурія”
- Santali: “ᱞᱤᱜᱩᱨᱤᱭᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Ligùria”
- Scots: “Ligurie”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Liguria”
- Serbian: “Лигурија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ligurija”
- Shona: “Liguriya”
- Sicilian: “Liguria”
- Skolt Sami: “Liguria”
- Slovak: “Ligúria”
- Slovenian: “Ligurija”
- Spanish: “Liguria”
- Spanish: “Región de Liguria”
- Swahili: “Liguria”
- Swedish: “Ligurien”
- Swiss German: “Ligurien”
- Tagalog: “Liguria”
- Tajik: “Лигуриё”
- Tajik: “Лигурия”
- Tamil: “இலிகுரியா”
- Tatar: “Лигурия”
- Thai: “แคว้นลิกูเรีย”
- Thai: “แคว้นลีกูเรีย”
- Thai: “ลีกือรียา”
- Thai: “ลีกูเรีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ligurien”
- Turkish: “Ligurya Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Ligurya”
- Ukrainian: “Лігурія”
- Urdu: “لیگوریا”
- Venetian: “Ligùria”
- Venetian: “Łiguria”
- Venetian: “Łigùria”
- Vietnamese: “Liguria”
- Vlaams: “Ligurië”
- Waray (Philippines): “Liguria”
- Welsh: “Liguria”
- Western Frisian: “Liguerje”
- Western Frisian: “Ligurje”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ لیگوریا”
- Wu Chinese: “利古里亚”
- Yue Chinese: “列古利亞”
- “Liguria”
- “Ligûria”
- “Ligurie”
- “ma Likuja”
- “ma Likulija”
- “ma lili Likuja”
- “ma lili Likulija”
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