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Le Grazie Destination Guide

Explore Le Grazie in Italy

Le Grazie in the region of Liguria is a town in Italy - some 201 mi or ( 324 km ) North-West of Rome , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Le Grazie

Current time in Le Grazie is now 08:03 PM (Saturday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Rome " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Vernazza, Trieste, Turin, Sarzana, and Santo Stefano di Magra. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Vernazza . We saw some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Le Grazie ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Festa della Marina 2011

5:22 min by HewittsVillaSpaldi
Views: 5844 Rating: 5.00

La Spezia Arsenal Harbour : Italian Sailors saluting the President on the 150th Anniversary of the formation of the Italian Navy - HD ..

Portovenere overture

5:00 min by Andrea Matteo Serain
Views: 1521 Rating: 3.60

Da un viaggio alle cinque terre del 2005 ..


Le Cinque terre , come erano....

3:57 min by Matteo De Stefano
Views: 1404 Rating: 4.90

Nikon D700 video , about 3000 shots using 150 mm and 24-70 mm lenses for all of these shots www.matteo-destefano.it mogwai ..

Portovenere (HD)

4:14 min by Naoki Oba
Views: 711 Rating: 5.00

Portovenere ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei

See Decima Flottiglia MAS for Italian frogmen during and before WWII. COMSUBIN (Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei e Incursori Teseo Tesei) is the elite combat frogman force and one of the Italian special forces. Italy was the first nation to use frogmen and human torpedoes. The Italian Naval Assault Divisions are considered to be the precursors to modern Naval Special Forces.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 44.07 9.85 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Armed forces diving, Combat diving, Frogman operations, Italian inventions, Special forces of Italy

German submarine U-455

German submarine U-455 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down on 3 September 1940, launched on 21 June 1941 and commissioned on 21 August 1941 with Kapitänleutnant Hans-Henrich Giessler in command of a crew of 51. Her service began with the 5th U-boat Flotilla, a training outfit. She was transferred to the 7th flotilla for operations at the beginning of 1942 and again to the 29th flotilla in March 1944.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 44.07 9.85 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: 1941 ships, German Type VII submarines, Missing U-boats, Ships built in Kiel, U-boats commissioned in 1941, U-boats sunk in 1944, World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, World War II submarines of Germany

Scola Tower

The Scola Tower - or tower of St. John the Baptist - is a former military building located just beyond the northeastern tip (called tip Scola) of Palmaria (island) in Portovenere, in the Gulf of Poets in the province of La Spezia, Italy. It is part of, along with the Fort Cavour and Umberto I and the Batteria Semaforo, the defensive positions of Palmaria.

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Located at 44.05 9.86 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: 17th-century establishments in Italy, Buildings and structures in Liguria, Lighthouses in Italy, Republic of Genoa

Palmaria (island)

Palmaria is an Italian island situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. Measuring 1.6 km², it is the largest island of an archipelago of three closely spaced islands jutting out south from the mainland at Portovenere. The other islands, Tino, and the tiny Tinetto lie further south. In 1997, the archipelago, together with Portovenere and the Cinque Terre, was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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Located at 44.04 9.84 (Lat./Long.); Less than 3 km away
Tags: Islands of Liguria, Italian Riviera, World Heritage Sites in Italy

USS Williamsburg (AGC-369)

USS Williamsburg was a US Navy gunboat, a former private yacht, that served as a presidential yacht from 1945 to 1953.

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Located at 44.08 9.88 (Lat./Long.); Less than 4 km away
Tags: 1930 ships, Presidential yachts of the United States

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Historical Weather

temperature and rainfall during the year in Le Grazie