La SpeziaSights

Sights in La Spezia

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    Museo Amedeo Lia

    La Spezia’s star attraction is the Museo Amedeo Lia, a fine-arts museum in a restored 17th-century friary. The collection covers the 13th to 18th centuries and includes paintings by masters such as Tintoretto, Montagna, Titian and Pietro Lorenzetti. Also on show are Roman bronzes and ecclesiastical treasures such as Limoges crucifixes and illuminated musical manuscripts.

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  2. feast day

    La Spezia's bustle peaks on 19 March, the feast day of the city's patron saint, San Guiseppe (Saint Joseph). Celebrations see a giant market fill the port and surrounding streets, and the naval base (off-limits the rest of the year) opens to the public for the day.

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  3. Museo Tecnico Navale

    See model ships and polene (statuettes that graced the prows of vessels) at the 1870-founded naval museum, Museo Tecnico Navale.

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    Castello di San Giorgio

    There is an assortment of local archaeological artefacts from prehistoric to medieval times at the Castello di San Giorgio.

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    Museo del Sigilio

    Pop into the Museo del Sigilio to see some 1500 seals dating from the 4th millennium BC to the present day.

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