History at a glance
A wide set of museum proposals within the inner cities.
Are you interested in the history of the area? Visiting the ethnographic museum "Giovanni Podenzana" of La Spezia, you will find that the jeans are born around here.
The museum of the castle of S. George offers the first evidences of human presence and the artifacts of the ancient Roman colony of Luni, the remains of which are still where once the rich and powerful city stood .
Walking through the inner city of La Spezia you can encounter in the prestigious collection ”Lia”, which includes seals from the Egyptians to the 900, and in the temporary exhibitions of the Institution for the cultural services of the municipality. And it is all packed into a single structure.
The naval museum bears witness to the ancient link between the city of La Spezia and the Navy, by the presence of its arsenal since 1869. Figureheads , small submarines , uniforms and weapons await you inside the walls of the nineteenth-century arsenal.
And coming out of the museum tour of the capital, the paleontology museum in the castle of Lerici is worth a visit, created following the discovery of ancient dinosaur footprints near the seaside village.
Museums you can visit:
La Spezia
- Museum of St. George Castle, archeological
collections “U.Formentini”
- Palazzina delle arti, temporary exhibitions
- Seals museum (“Museo del Sigillo”)
- Ethnographic Museum “G. Podenzana”
- CAMeC, Modern and contemporary art Museum
- National Museum of transports
Lerici
- Geopaleontological Museum of the Castle
Sarzana