La Spezia The city of La Spezia is located on the border of Liguria and Toscana, modern town that knew the largest development in the nineteenth century when the Military Shipyard was built by the General Domenico Chiodo. A monument that today represents historic tals of the city is the S. Giorgio Castle, built around the fourteenth century. In the last years the local Administration invested a lot in museums. In fact, thanks to generous endowments of people fond with arts, three excellent museums opened the doors, located inside ancient palaces renewed on purpose. The Lia Museum, in a sixteenth century convent seat, with a collection of Middleage and Modern art of high value; the Contemporary and Modern Art Museum, which collect around 900 paintings, testimonial of expressionism and historic vanguard till the new trend ; the very particular and fashinating Museum of Seals, in The Belle Arti Palace, with a rera collection of seals of all ages and locations. Last but not least a note on the Naval Museum with its centenary history collecting the most important testimonials of Navy seafaring; and the Diocesan Museum with its collection of holy handcrafts, to give a complete paint on the religious territory.
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