Lerici

Lerici is a metropolis and commune in the province of La Spezia in Liguria a part of the Italian Riviera. It is located at the coast of the Gulf of La Spezia, 8 kilometers southeast of La Spezia. It is called the place wherein the poet Percy Byssi Shelley drowned. The metropolis is hooked up by using ferry to the Cinque Terre and Portovenere. One of the principle points of interest of Lerici is its castle which because its first founding in 1152 became used to help manipulate the entrance of the Gulf of La Spezia.

Today the fortress consists of a museum of paleontology. The origins of the town date again to the Etruscan length. In the center Ages the city came underneath Genoese control. After it had been sold to Lucca, it have become worried in a series of conflicts among Genoa and Pisa, because it changed into on their not unusual border. In 1479, the city got here beneath Genoese sway for appropriate. Lerici is one of the mariner groups which take part within the Palio Del Golf, a rowing contest held in La Spezia each first Sunday of August.