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33 unusual facts about La Spezia


340th Flying Training Group

A second DUC was received for the destruction of the Italian light cruiser Taranto in the heavily defended harbor of La Spezia on 23 September 1944 before the ship could be used by the enemy to block the harbor's entrance.

810 Naval Air Squadron

They then saw action in November at the Battle of Cape Spartivento, and the following year in February carried out bombing attacks on Tirso Dam, Sardinia and bombing attacks on Livorno and La Spezia in Italy.

Albrecht Brandi

In the Mediterranean, U-617 was assigned to 29th U-boat Flotilla, located in La Spezia and Toulon and commanded by Fritz Frauenheim.

Aliyah Bet

The British had blockaded the Dov Hos after it had arrived in La Spezia, but the passengers responded with a hunger strike and a threat to blow her up, compelling the British to give them entry permits.

Argo-class submarine

After refit at La Spezia, Velella sailed on 25 November 1940 and passed the Strait of Gibraltar on 1 December for an Atlantic patrol to Bordeaux on 25 December.

Arturo Riccardi

Following his admission into the La Spezia (PNF) political party in 1934, he won promotion to Vice Admiral on 27 December 1935.

Bernhard Jope

During his time at Kampfgeschwader 100 (KG 100) Jope led an attack on 9 September 1943 on the Italian battle fleet that was sailing from La Spezia en route to Malta, to surrender to the Allies.

BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport

Three ED95 buses and one fuel pump was installed in La Spezia.

Stockholm (Sweden) was the coordinating city, and other participants were Basque Country and Madrid (Spain), the Biofuel Region in Sweden, Brandenburg (Germany), La Spezia (Italy), Nanyang (China), Rotterdam (Netherlands), São Paulo (Brazil), and Somerset (UK).

Cornelio Fabro

After completing private studies at the Marian sanctuary at Ortonovo La Spezia in 1929 he transferred to the Curia Generalizia and International College of the Stigmatine Order at the convent of Sant'Agata dei Goti on via Mazzarino in Rome in order to begin his philosophy studies at the "Collegio Sant’Apolinare", the future Lateran University.

Daniele Zanettovich

Zanettovich started out his career as a pianist, winning the Fourth National Festival of Student Pianists in La Spezia.

Erich Zürn

As flotilla engineer in the 29th U-boat Flotilla (1 June 1942 – 31 January 1944) in La Spezia and Toulon and later in the 5th U-boat Flotilla, Zürn introduced a number of improvements which helped the flotilla operate at peak efficiency.

European route E31

The route from Parma to La Spezia in Italy, although identified as E 33 in the E-network, is also signposted as E 31.

European route E33

It leaves Parma, where it links to E 35 and heads south-west, reaching its destination of La Spezia, where it further links to E 80, a transcontinental route.

Force Blue

Force Blue was seized by Guardia di Finanza (Italian Customs Officers) in May 2010 in La Spezia, near Genoa.

Gerhard Sommer

On 22 June 2005, Sommer and nine other former SS members were convicted by an Italian military court in La Spezia for the "continued murder with special cruelty" of 560 villagers at Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

Gian Paolo Dulbecco

Born in La Spezia (Italy) in 1941, he showed an early interest in art.

Kedra Holland-Corn

In Italy, with La Spezia team, won the Italian league's MVP title in the 2005-06 season.

Lee R. Scherer

He served as technical assistant to the team responsible for the establishment of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Research Center for NATO in La Spezia, Italy from 1959 to 1962.

Marco Tezza

Besides, he won the first prize in several international piano competitions: Città di Treviso, La Spezia, RAI, and received awards in other prizes: Moncalieri (European Prize for Chamber Music), Busoni, Pretoria and Viotti.

Markus Hinterhäuser

Markus Hinterhäuser (born 30 March 1958, La Spezia, Italy) is an Austrian pianist and the current Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival.

Military units and formations of NATO

The NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) at La Spezia, Italy, was also part of ACT until it was shifted under the auspices of the NATO Science & Technology Organization.

Munshi Aziz Bhat Museum of Central Asian and Kargil Trade Artifacts

In 2006 he was invited to Rome for a conference hosted by La Spezia University in Italy and has also attended a conference at Aarhus University in Denmark.

MV Amastra

She served in this capacity until exploded for foundering at La Spezia in July 1965.

Nicholas Haddock

In November 1741, a Spanish fleet with 14,000 troops sailed to Orbetello and in mid-December, 52 ships carrying almost 12,800 men successfully crossed towards La Spezia.

Operazione White Crane

On 19 January 2010, Cavour set sail for Haiti, leaving La Spezia.

Pisa–La Spezia–Genoa railway

On 25 July 1872 with the opening of the connecting tunnel between Genova Brignole and Genova Piazza Principe The section of line to Sestri Levante was no longer isolated and was connected over the Apennines but especially to the line to Ventimiglia, which had been completed on 25 January 1872.

The project for a Ligurian railway that would connect Ventimiglia with Massa (thus connecting the existing railways of central Italy) was agreed by a royal decree on 27 October 1860 but its realisation, because the rugged Ligurian coast, proved the most difficult and costly project of the period.

Russian battleship Oslyabya

The ship sailed for Port Arthur on 7 August 1903, but Oslyabya ran aground in the Strait of Gibraltar on 21 August and was under repair until November at La Spezia, Italy.

Seaspeak

Seaspeak originated at the International Maritime Lecturers Association (IMLA) Workshop on Maritime English in 1985 in La Spezia (WOME 3), in a project led by Captain Fred Weeks, and was updated in the following years.

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic family from La Spezia.

Yehuda Arazi

From 1945 to 1948 he was in the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, commander of the Italy “station” and involved in the “La Spezia” affair.

Yossi Harel

The prize is given annually to individuals who promote peace and humanitarianism at La Spezia in Italy, where the ship Exodus was renovated.


29th U-boat Flotilla

29th U-boat Flotilla ("29. Unterseebootsflottille") was formed in December 1941 in La Spezia in Italy under the command of Korvettenkapitän Franz Becker.

Capitani Romani-class cruiser

Caio Mario, named after Gaius Marius, built by OTO Livorno, launched 17 August 1941; captured in La Spezia by the Germans, with only the hull completed.

Follonica

The railway linking Reggio Calabria in the south and Turin in the north runs through the city, providing direct railway connections to the cities of Grosseto, Rome, Turin, Naples, Pisa and La Spezia, among others.

La Spezia–Rimini Line

The La SpeziaRimini Line (sometimes also referred to as the MassaSenigallia Line), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it.

Società per le Strade Ferrate Romane

On 1 July 1885 its network was taken over by the Rete Mediterranea (Mediterranean Network) and the Rete Adriatica (Adriatic Network), with the coastal line from La Spezia to Pisa, Rome and Naples and the line from Pisa to Florence via Empoli going to the Rete Mediterranea and the lines from Rome to Florence and Ancona going to the Rete Adriatica.