Spezia
the principal naval port of Italy; near the head of a deep and commodious bay on the W. side of the peninsula; 56 miles S. E. of Genoa. It was Napoleon I. who first recognized the suitability of this bay for the purposes to which the Italians, instigated thereto modious bay on the W. side of the pen- insula; 56 miles S. E. of Genoa. It was cial breakwater (built in 1860), 2,400 feet long, covers the entrance; while formidable batteries of the heaviest artillery (supplemented by torpedo apby Cavour, have now put it. An artifi- cial breakwater (built in 1860), 2,400 feet long, covers the entrance; while look the bay and on the island of Palmeria that guards its entrance. Here the Italians have constructed the great national arsenal, and build their large warships, and have their ship repairing yards and docks, and their naval victualling yards, store houses, etc. There are also in the town large barracks, a military hospital, as well as schools of