Page 18 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Italian Riviera

16  INTRODUCING THE IT ALIAN RIVIER A
AUSTRIA
Strengen
Altdorf Prutz
Putting the Italian Riviera on the Map
Chur Davos
Liguria covers 5,418 sq km (2,090 sq miles) and is the second smallest SWITZERLAND Scuol Brunico
region in Italy. Administratively, it is divided into four provinces: Spondigna Bressanone
from west to east, these are Imperia, Savona, Genoa and La Bernardino Merano
San
Spezia. Squeezed between the Mediterranean and the Bormio Bolzano
peaks of the Maritime Alps and the Apennines, Liguria’s Chiavenna Canazei
population is concentrated along the stunning coastal Locarno Cles
strip of the Riviera di Levante Colico Sondrio Edolo TRENTINO- Predazzo
and the Riviera di Ponente. Verbania ALTO ADIGE
The strip is known collectively Aosta Trento Feltre
as the Italian Riviera – a term Como Lecco Darfo del Gardo
Riva
VALLE
commonly used to describe D’AOSTA Bergamo Rovereto
the region of Liguria as a whole. Biella Bassano
del Grappa
Monza Iseo
Ivrea
Novara Milano Brescia Trieste
Grenoble Modane (Milan) Vicenza
LOMBARDIA Verona Mestre
Susa
Lodi
Pavia VENETO Padova Venezia
Torino (Turin) (Padua) (Venice) CROATIA
Briançon PIEMONTE Cremona Mantova Poreč
Asti Chioggia
Piacenza Ostiglia
Carmagnola Alessandria Tortona Rovigo
Gap Rovinj
Alba Ferrara Mesola Pula
Marsaglia Parma
Barcelonnette Argentera Reggio Modena
Cuneo LIGURIA nell’Emilia Comacchio
FRANCE Mondovi Carcare
Genova EMILIA-
Digne- Calizzano Savona (Genoa) Pontremoli ROMAGNA Bologna Alfonsine
les-Bains Ravenna Adr iatic
Entrevaux Tende Pievepelago Imola Faenza Sea
Albenga
La Spezia Forlì
Massa Cesena
Imperia
Escragnolles Nice Sanremo Pistoia Rimini
Monaco Lucca Prato
Pesaro
Antibes Firenze San Marino
Cannes Pisa (Florence) Fano
Fréjus Ligur ian Cascina Urbino
Sea Isola di Livorno
Gorgona Certaldo Sansepolcro Croatia,
Cagli MARCHE Greece
Toulon A Volterra TOSCANA Arezzo Ancona
Castello
r Città di
Cecina
Siena
c
i Cortona
Macerata Civitanova Marche
p
Massa Sinalunga
e
l Marittima
Barcelona, Centuri a Castiglione Perugia Tolentino Porto
Tangier, Tunis g o Piombino Roccastrada del Lago San Giorgio
Follonica

Foligno
Isola Ascoli
Key d' Elba UMBRIA Piceno
Bastia Grosseto
Motorway Calvi L‘lle- T Todi
Rousse
Orvieto Spoleto Giulianova
o
Major road s c Teramo
Pineto
Railway line n
a
Corte Orbetello Terni
International border Porto o Viterbo ABRUZZO Pescara
Ferry route Cor sica Isola del Vetralla Civita Rieti
Giglio
Tarquinia Castellana L’Aquila
Chieti
Ajaccio
0 kilometres 75 Ghisonaccia T yr rhenian Civitavecchia LAZIO
0 miles 75 Sea Sulmona
Solenzara
Avezzano
Rome
Sardinia, Sicily Sardinia, Sicily
Key to Symbols see back flap
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