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The aroma of herbal selections and pines, the startling blue of the ocean. The brilliant white of cliffs tumbling into the depths. The sound of pounding surf, the chiming of church bells. The look of pile peaks that break the clouds, the chill associated with an alpine breeze. All this, and much more, is the Italian Riviera. Pinned between the mountains and the ocean, on the steeply-sloped crescent of land stretching out from the French boundary to Tuscany, the people of the Italian region of Liguria - commonly known as the Italian Riviera - developed a personality and unique life-style. The area is only 170 mls long, and 23 mls big at its widest point. Some have theorized that the geography of Liguria possessed a profound internal impact on individuals who resided there. They reason that the limited landmass - with the ocean on one area and challenging mountains on the other - possessed an "island effect", convincing the Ligurians to try the ocean as fishermen, investors, explorers, and sailors. Among their number could very well be the most famous explorer of all time, Christopher Colombus. East of Genoa lays the Portofino Promontory, an outcrop of land separating the Golfo Paradiso and the Golfo del Tigéllio. Within the otherwise easy arc of eastern Liguria it juts out into the blue sea, capped by the heights of Mt. Portofino.

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Publisher	Hunter Publishing, Inc.
Language	English
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DATE	2014-07
Author	Amy Finley

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