The Livorno Hills (also known as Leghorn Hills, or in Italian as the Colline Livornesi) is a
hill range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...
in
Tuscany
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, included in the municipalities of
Livorno,
Collesalvetti and
Rosignano Marittimo
Rosignano Marittimo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Livorno.
Geography
Rosignano Marittimo borders the following municipalities ...
, and in the
Province of Livorno
The province of Livorno or, traditionally, province of Leghorn ( it, provincia di Livorno) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It includes several islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, including Elba and Capraia. Its cap ...
. Due to its vicinity to the sea, the average height is quite low. The highest mountain is ''
Poggio Lecceta'' ("Holms Knoll"), with an elevation of on the sea level. Other peaks, such as the ''Monte Maggiore'' ("Mount Major") or ''Poggio ai tre mulini'' ("Knoll of the Three Mills") are over high.
Important villages on the Livorno Hills are the fractions of ''
Valle Benedetta'' (Livorno), ''Nibbiaia'' and ''Gabbro'' (Rosignano Marittimo), and Rosignano Marittimo too, which is situated on the homonymous knoll at a height of . Many streams, although the weather is quite dry in the summer, run down from the Leghorn Hills. The longest is known as ''Rio Ugione'', on the border between Livorno and Collesalvetti municipalities.
A natural park called ''Riserva naturale Calafuria'' is set in the part of the Livorno Hills near the coast.
Coastal parks in Tuscany site
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References
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Mountains of Tuscany
Livorno