page_title: La Spezia
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: La Spezia / People
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
context_page_description: La Spezia 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 region, just after Genoa. Located roughly midway between Genoa and Pisa, on the Ligurian Sea, it is one of the main Italian military and commercial harbours and a major Italian Navy base. A significant railway junction, it is notable for its museums, for the Palio del Golfo rowing race, and for railway and boat links with the Cinque Terre.
context_section_description: Alessia Aquilani (born 1967), known as Alexia, singer
  Giulio Cappelli (1911–1995), football player
  Toto Cutugno (born 1943), singer
  Leonardo D'Imporzano (born 1982), freediver and journalist
  Gian Paolo Dulbecco (born 1941), painter
  Rinaldo Fiumi (born 1923), football player
  Giancarlo Giannini (born 1942), actor
  Ettore Gracis (1915–1992), conductor
  Markus Hinterhäuser (born 1958), Austrian pianist and cultural manager
  Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899), countess of Castiglione
  Eros Pagni (born 1939), actor
  Gaetano Pesce (born 1939), architect designer
  Arrigo Petacco (1929–2018), writer, historian and journalist
  Alessandro Petacchi (born 1974), cyclist
  Lorenzo Richelmy (born 1990), actor
  Gino Rossetti (1904–1992), football player
  Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988), composer
  Alberto Sorrentino (1916–1994), actor
  Sauro Tomà (1925–2018), football player
caption: Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, 1862.
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