Savona on the Riviera di Ponente
Thursday, 9 May 2013 - 01:09 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Savona is a seaport and comune in the northern Italian
region of Liguria , capital of the
Province of Savona , in the
Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea, with 62,000 inhabitants. Savona used to be one of the chief seats of the Italian iron industry, having iron-works and foundries, shipbuilding, railway workshops, engineering shops, and a brass foundry.
One of the most celebrated former inhabitants of Savona was the navigator Christopher Columbus , who farmed land in the area while chronicling his journeys. ‘Columbus’s house’, a cottage situated in the Savona hills, lay between vegetable crops and fruit trees. It is just one of many residences in Liguria associated with Columbus.
Harbor of Savona © Mstyslav Chernov - mstyslav-chernov.com/cc-by-sa-3.0
The town is situated 40 km west of
Genoa and circa 150 km (east) of
Nice , in France, on the western
Italian Riviera , between the
Ligurian Sea and the
Ligurian Alps .
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Port of Savona ,
Province of Savona and
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