Liguria Travel tourism

Liguria is an Italian region of 1,610,134 inhabitants in the north-west of the peninsula and which has as its capital the city of Genoa. Bordered on the south by the Ligurian Sea to the west by France (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur), on the north by the Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, in the east of Tuscany.
Sandwiched between the mountain ranges of the Alps and the Apennines and the sea, the region is conventionally considered to be divided into two roughly bounded by the capital of the Riviera di Ponente and the Riviera di Levante.
Its name comes from the Ligurian population, although in reality the boundaries of ancient Liguria were far more extensive than those of the region and included almost all of the Piedmont plain south of the Po, the current south-west from Sydney 'Oltrepò bunting to the confluence of the Ticino in the Po, the present and the Lunigiana Niçois to the river Varus, the existing administrative boundaries, among other things stabilized in 1923, tend rather to coincide with those of the historical Republic of Genoa (until 1860 the administrative district of Liguria included the Maritime Province of Nice, then sold to France, with the exception of the district of San Remo to Oneglia, joined the Kingdom of Italy).
Liguria includes large portions of territory tributary of the Po basin north of the Alpine-Apennine ridge (about 28% of regional surface belongs to the Po basin) and almost all the maritime background of the long stretch of coastline between the historical boundaries of Monaco (at Rio San Luigi Grimaldi di Ventimiglia) and the lower valley of the Magra Valley near Sarzana and Aulla (MS): this eastern border is less clear, however, as they coincide in part with the lower reaches of the river Magra and includes part of the coastal plain of Luni.
It must however be said that this administrative policy (that is administratively Ligurian everything that is placed south of the Alpine-Apennine ridge tract Grimaldi-Mortola/Passo arm) are fleeing some marginal areas of the territory of Liguria "physical", which for historical or political reasons belong to other regional or state is the case with the middle and upper Roya Valley (long dispute between the Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Provence and the Duchy of Savoy and now French administration after being Liguria and Piedmont) and high valleys of the rivers Neva and Pennavaire (with the towns of Alto, and Caprauna Cerisola while remaining within the sphere of economic influence-the commercial city of Albenga have long been controlled by the Duchy of Savoy and then included in the province of Cuneo, the Liguria is then subtracted much of the historical region of Lunigiana, that despite having absolutely own cultural characteristics and a self-contained story, is the natural hinterland of the city of La Spezia and Sarzana.
Liguria is a region of great tourist attraction for its natural beauty and man-made, among which is worth to mention - to the west - the Riviera dei Fiori and - to the east - Portofino, Cinque Terre and Portovenere.