Ancient mountain liguri hating other liguri from the next valley so much that they had to be split into 4 different regions, and still hate each other to this day.
Probably pizza
Wondering the same. Tourists flood to eastoid Venice, but there’s no love for Genoa, per che?
Side switching?
That’s parts of five regions of Italy:
* Liguria (small strip of land to the south-west) * Tuscany (pointy part of the triangle to the south) * Emilia Romagna (long-ish region from west to east) * Lombardy (pointy part of north region in the center) * Piedmont (remaining region)
The area you circled is mostly *Appennino*, that is, our mountains that go from the Alps to Sicily (over – or better, under – the Strait of Messina, yes). You have a couple of things worth noticing also:
* Cinque Terre: Series of coastal villages in southern Liguria and some of the places most overrun by tourists in the whole world. I have been there and I have to say it’s almost worst than Venice, since the space is even less than in the centre of Venice, given that the villages are all built on the coast on a cliff. There is a little train going from village, but you can also hike the in-between area. Bring some big bucks, however: Last time I hiked there it cost 16 € for two sections of the walk. * La Spezia / Massa-Carrara area: Famous for marmor extraction, that get sold all over the world for premium prices. Also, famous for the Golfo dei Poeti, a series of beautiful sea inlets. * Emilia: Your area comprises almost all of Emilia except Ferrara and Bologna. I was born in Emilia and well, it’s a beautiful territory which sadly has been going to shits since the end of WW2 due to heavy industry and, in more modern days, illegal immigration. In my home town whole neighborhoods have been ghettoized and are way too dangerous to enter at night. Still, the right doesn’t have a strong foothold there and we count as the “red heartland” of Italy (we currently have a PD governor). * Pavia: The old capital of the Lombards and still one of the culturally more important cities in the whole of Italy. The area around Pavia is classical “Pianura Padana”: sad, foggy, polluted. I had an ex coming from there and spent an autumn in and around Pavia and if you don’t have depression, you definitely will get it there. * Novi Ligure / Voghera Territory: The least interesting area of the whole of Piedmont.
It’s where they make the nonnas.
That’s where bridges collapse.
The guys who sold us Corsica! Thanks, I guess
Whatever happens in Liguria stays in Liguria
Anyone live in Garessio/ Ormea?
Historically competing with Venice to be the most based republic.
Currently? Being a polentone
Crime probably, dunno never been.
Greed happens. Now give me my 5 cents back
There may be cake
As a train geek, the Pontremolese railway! (from Parma to Pontremoli, in Tuscany’s panhandle, and then all the way into Liguria)
Easy vacation spot for people coming from Piedmont to go to the sea
All I can say is they don’t so maintenence on bridges over there.
It’s where Segesta is; the first city you take when playing as the House of Julii in Rome Total War.
Mostly abuso edilizio
I don’t know but we want to come and tourist the hell out of it. Maybe price some locals out of a house. And maybe with time and the right amount of loud conversations we may even get to plant thr ultimate symbol of freedom a Starbucks. Normally it’s dominoes but Italians don’t know our pizza is superior yet so we will just out a coffee shop that built its brand imitating coffee shops from Milan.
I watched the owner of the campsite I was staying at 23 years ago build a chicken coop. He’s probably finished by now.
crimes
Hey i did Erasmus there.
Just people trying to spend as little money as humanly possible
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nothing, stay home!
Ancient mountain liguri hating other liguri from the next valley so much that they had to be split into 4 different regions, and still hate each other to this day.
Probably pizza
Wondering the same. Tourists flood to eastoid Venice, but there’s no love for Genoa, per che?
Side switching?
That’s parts of five regions of Italy:
* Liguria (small strip of land to the south-west)
* Tuscany (pointy part of the triangle to the south)
* Emilia Romagna (long-ish region from west to east)
* Lombardy (pointy part of north region in the center)
* Piedmont (remaining region)
The area you circled is mostly *Appennino*, that is, our mountains that go from the Alps to Sicily (over – or better, under – the Strait of Messina, yes). You have a couple of things worth noticing also:
* Cinque Terre: Series of coastal villages in southern Liguria and some of the places most overrun by tourists in the whole world. I have been there and I have to say it’s almost worst than Venice, since the space is even less than in the centre of Venice, given that the villages are all built on the coast on a cliff. There is a little train going from village, but you can also hike the in-between area. Bring some big bucks, however: Last time I hiked there it cost 16 € for two sections of the walk.
* La Spezia / Massa-Carrara area: Famous for marmor extraction, that get sold all over the world for premium prices. Also, famous for the Golfo dei Poeti, a series of beautiful sea inlets.
* Emilia: Your area comprises almost all of Emilia except Ferrara and Bologna. I was born in Emilia and well, it’s a beautiful territory which sadly has been going to shits since the end of WW2 due to heavy industry and, in more modern days, illegal immigration. In my home town whole neighborhoods have been ghettoized and are way too dangerous to enter at night. Still, the right doesn’t have a strong foothold there and we count as the “red heartland” of Italy (we currently have a PD governor).
* Pavia: The old capital of the Lombards and still one of the culturally more important cities in the whole of Italy. The area around Pavia is classical “Pianura Padana”: sad, foggy, polluted. I had an ex coming from there and spent an autumn in and around Pavia and if you don’t have depression, you definitely will get it there.
* Novi Ligure / Voghera Territory: The least interesting area of the whole of Piedmont.
It’s where they make the nonnas.
That’s where bridges collapse.
The guys who sold us Corsica! Thanks, I guess
Whatever happens in Liguria stays in Liguria
Anyone live in Garessio/ Ormea?
Historically competing with Venice to be the most based republic.
Currently? Being a polentone
Crime probably, dunno never been.
Greed happens. Now give me my 5 cents back
There may be cake
As a train geek, the Pontremolese railway! (from Parma to Pontremoli, in Tuscany’s panhandle, and then all the way into Liguria)
Easy vacation spot for people coming from Piedmont to go to the sea
All I can say is they don’t so maintenence on bridges over there.
It’s where Segesta is; the first city you take when playing as the House of Julii in Rome Total War.
Mostly abuso edilizio
I don’t know but we want to come and tourist the hell out of it. Maybe price some locals out of a house. And maybe with time and the right amount of loud conversations we may even get to plant thr ultimate symbol of freedom a Starbucks. Normally it’s dominoes but Italians don’t know our pizza is superior yet so we will just out a coffee shop that built its brand imitating coffee shops from Milan.
I watched the owner of the campsite I was staying at 23 years ago build a chicken coop. He’s probably finished by now.
crimes
Hey i did Erasmus there.
Just people trying to spend as little money as humanly possible