Italian regions: eg Liguria, Christopher Columbus, Genoa and Portofino

Problems
Which regions of Italy contain which well known town?

Answer:
Here's a summary and some mnemonics or memory aids.
First which region is where?

I could look at them north to south.

For convenience I have put them in alphabetical order.

	North-West Nord-Ovest	Aosta Valley Liguria Lombardy Piedmont	Milan
	North-East Nord-Est	Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trentino-South Tyrol Veneto	Bologna
	Centre Centro	Lazio Marche Tuscany Umbria	Rome	1
	South Sud	Abruzzo Apulia Basilicata Calabria Campania Molise	Naples
	Islands Isole or Insulare (adj)	Sardinia Sicily	Palermo

ABRUZZO
AOSTA VALLEY
APULIA
BASILICATA
CALABRIA
CAMPANIA - (Positano, Amalfi drive; I've had a painting of pretty Positano on the kitchen wall for decades!)
EMILIA-ROMANA
FRUILI-VENEZIA GIULIA
LAZIO
LIGURIA - Genoa (Portofino, San Remo)

LOMBARDY
MARCHE
MOLISE
PIEDMONT
SARDINIA
SICILY
TRENTINUO-SOUTH TYROL
TUSCANY - Florence
UMBRIA - Perugia
VENETO

Regions[edit]

Flag	Region Italian name							Capital city				Metropolitan cities
	Abruzzo Abruzzo							L'Aquila				-
	Aosta Valley Valle d'Aosta							Aosta				-
	Apulia Puglia							Bari				Bari
	Basilicata Basilicata							Potenza				-
	Calabria Calabria							Catanzaro				Reggio Calabria
	Campania Campania							Naples				Naples
	Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna							Bologna				Bologna
	Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia							Trieste				-
	ITALY							Rome
	Lazio Lazio							Rome				Rome
	Liguria Liguria							Genoa				Genoa
	Lombardy Lombardia							Milan				Milan
	Marche Marche							Ancona				-
	Molise Molise							Campobasso				-
	Piedmont Piemonte							Turin				Turin
	Sardinia Sardegna							Cagliari				Cagliari
	Sicily Sicilia							Palermo				Catania Messina Palermo
	Trentino-South Tyrol Trentino-Alto Adige							Trento				-
	Tuscany Toscana							Florence				Florence
	Umbria Umbria							Perugia				-
	Veneto Veneto							Venice				Venice

Here are my memory aids for the major cities and regions:
AA Aosta is in the Aosta Valley.
FT Florence is in Tuscany.
GL - GenoA is in LiguriA.
ML Milan in Lombardy; MiLan in LoMbardy.
NC - knackered and camping outside Naples in Campania; good and bad Company in Campania in Naples.
RL Rome is in Lazio. rOme is in laziO. Roaming through lazio, I am lazing oh.
UP - Umbria is the region whose capital is Perugia; UmbrIA and perUgIA
PS - Palermo is in Sicily
PT and TP - Piedmont you'll find Turin; Turin in Piedmont; Turin, turning in at the foot of the Mountain; pIedmoNT -TurIN
TTT Trento in Trentino-South Tyrol. TRENTO in TRENTinO- sOuTh TyrOl.
VV - Venice is in Veneto. VENice is in VENeto.

Story
The Liguria Tourist board PR company sent me a story about Liguria having lots of highly rated blue flag beaches. I frowned at the email. I'd never heard of Liguria where was it. Why hadn't she sent me a map which showed the location Liguria and some well known towns.

LIGURIA
Where is Liguria? Do I know it?
Of course the tourist board's job is to pump out focused stories. My job as a journalist to to research the area and make it popular and snappy and visually appealing and exciting. As Gandhi said, 'be the change you wish to see'. I looked up Liguria. Of course I know Liguria.

My next question is, anybody famous, any famous historical event connected with the area. Genoa. Birthplace of Christopher Columbus. You can't get more famous than that! You can't miss Columbus. You fly in to Christopher Columbus airport in Genoa.

Now I have set myself the task of memorising all the regions of Italy.

More story and pictures about Genoa and Christopher Columbus, including pictures, are in the next post.

Tips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguria
http://wikitravel.org/en/Genoa
http://www.italia.it/en/discover-italy/liguria.html

Author
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