La Spezia (Speza in local dialect) with its over 95 thousand inhabitants is the second Commune the most populated in the Region (its urban area has 136 thousand inhabitants), preceeded only by the Regional headtown Genua. That town lays in the last eastern borderline of Liguria region, a few km far from the borderline with Toscana Region at the centre of a deep natural Gulf to which it gives its name. That Gulf, known even by the name of the Poets' Gulf is surrounded by a series of hills with the Verrugoli mountain over them at 749 meters above sea level, a mountain placed at the western downtown.The Commune land of La Spezia is part of the Authority of Magra River interregional area and a small part of the COmmune land represented by the smal village of Tramonti and the surrounding hill. It is part of the National Park of Cinqueterre.  The five communes of Cinqueterre: Vernazza, Riomaggiore, Monterosso, La Spezia and Levanto are part of that Park. The precious Extravirgin Olive Oil of La Spezia and the black pepper are the basis of the most important recipes of La Spezia gastronomy just like the typical "mescciüa", a soup of legumes and and cereals. The focaccia (Genua pie), the chickpees, the sgabei, the filled-in pumpkin flowers and vegetable pies are all typical recipes of general Ligurian cooking and gastronomy of La Spezia in particular. La Spezia is known even for its fish market where, every morning, is carried the fresh fish from local sea. Among them there are the muscles and other seafruits. The land of headtown Commune is linked to wine production of wine DOC Colli di Luni and DOC Cinqueterre; the grapes from Tramonti (site of Biassa), until the crisis provoked by the Fillossera parassite (1929), were the best known of province land. The site of Campiglia is known for the production of Saffron. In Pitelli site the ravioli filled in with meat, potatoes and fines herbs are very famous. But one of the best specialities is represented undoubtedly by the filled in "cozze" (muscles): the muscles growing, imported into town with the arrival of southern workers employed in building of army's arsenal, has had the growings in the quarters of FOssamastra and Canaletto. Further to the epidemy of cholera of Naples and only in precautional order the growings were moved nearby the foranea dam.