Riccò del Golfo di Spezia (, ) is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

Province of La Spezia The province of La Spezia (; Ligurian language, Ligurian: ''provinsa dea Spèza'') is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of La Spezia. Overview It has an area of and, , a total population o ...

in the

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region

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, located about southeast of

Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...

and about northeast of

La Spezia La Spezia (, or ; ; , in the local ) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second-largest city in the Liguria ...

Physical Geography

The territory of Riccò del Golfo lies in the southernmost part of the middle and lower val di Vara, in the minor valley of the Riccò affluent of the

Vara River The Vara is a river of the Province of La Spezia in Liguria, north-west Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsul ...

, behind the

Gulf of La Spezia The Gulf of La Spezia (; ), nicknamed the Gulf of Poets (; ), is a body of water on the north-western coast of Italy and part of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, specifically of Ligurian Sea. It measures some 4.5 (length) by 3-3.5 (width) kilometers. ...

. The territory is part of the

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. A woodland path, which passes by the village of Casella and the Sella della Cigoletta, marked as number 7 by the CAI, affords a connection with

Vernazza Vernazza (, locally ; ) is a town and located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northwestern Italy. It is one of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre region. Vernazza is the fourth town heading north, has no car traffic, and remai ...

and thus the coast of the

Cinque Terre The Cinque Terre (; ; meaning 'Five Lands') is a coastal area within Liguria, in the northwest of Italy. It lies in the west of La Spezia Province, and comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggio ...

Infrastructure and Transportation

Roads

The municipal territory of Riccò del Golfo di Spezia is crossed principally by the

strada statale 1 Via Aurelia Strada statale 1 Via Aurelia (SS 1) is an Italian state highway long in Italy located in the regions of Lazio, Tuscany and Liguria. It is one of the most important state highways in Italy and derives from an ancient Roman consular road, the Via ...

which affords a road link with

Beverino Beverino () is a ''comune'' (municipality) of c. 2,000 inhabitants in the province of La Spezia in the Italy, Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa and about north of La Spezia. It is part of the Vara (river), Vara river and o ...

, to the north, and the provincial capital

to the south. Further territorial road links include the provinciale 38 per Trezzo (Beverino) - which intersects with the Aurelia at the centre of Pian di Barca - and the provinciale 17, at the San Benedetto junction on the statale 1, which leads north into the municipal territory of Beverino.

Urban Transportation

From the municipalities of

Brugnato Brugnato () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of La Spezia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa and about 15 km northwest of La Spezia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,205 and an area ...

Sesta Godano Sesta Godano () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of La Spezia in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa and about northwest of La Spezia. Sesta Godano borders the following municipalities: Albareto, Borghetto di ...

and

Varese Ligure Varese Ligure ( ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of La Spezia in the Italian region Liguria, located about east of Genoa and about northwest of La Spezia. Varese Ligure borders the following municipalities: Albareto, Borzonasca ...

, a local public transport system provides daily bus connections with Riccò del Golfo di Spezia and other villages in the municipal territory.

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