Lerici

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Lerici is a village in the province of La Spezia in Liguria. It is part of the Italian Riviera. Its nearest bay is the Bay of Lerici.

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Although they anchored their sailing boat in Lerici, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley lived some three miles north in an isolated old boat house called Villa Magni. Their closest neighbors were the villagers of the tiny hamlet of San Terenzo. Percy Bysshe was drowned on July 8, 1822 in the Bay of Spezia, returning to Lerici from a journey to Leghorn and Pisa.

Province of La Spezia: La Spezia (It. Provincia della Spezia) is a province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of La Spezia....

Liguria: Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. It borders France to the west, Piedmont to the north, and Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the east. It lies on the Ligurian Sea, a part of the Tyrrhenian Sea (northern Mediterranean Sea)....

Italian Riviera: The Italian Riviera is a part of the coast shared between France and Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, or the Italian coast on the Adriatic Sea....

Lerici related Images and Photos (experimental)

Houses at Lerici 1932-33