Magra

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Magra
The mouth of the Magra

The mouth of the Magra

Data
location Tuscany and Liguria , Italy
River system Magra
source between Monte Borgognone and Monte Tavola
Source height 1200  m slm
muzzle Ligurian Sea Coordinates: 44 ° 2 ′ 44 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 21"  E 44 ° 2 ′ 44 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 21"  E
Mouth height 0  m slm
Height difference 1200 m
Bottom slope 17 ‰
length 70 km
Catchment area 1655 km²
Drain MQ
 40 m³ / s
Left tributaries Aulella , Bagnone, Caprio
Right tributaries Vara , Verde, Torrente Mangiola
Small towns Sarzana ( SP )
Communities Aulla , Filattiera , Licciana Nardi , Mulazzo , Podenzana , Pontremoli , Tresana , Villafranca in Lunigiana (all MS ), Ameglia , Arcola , Santo Stefano di Magra , Vezzano Ligure ( SP )

The Magra (in German: Die Dünne or the low water ) is a river that runs through the Italian regions of Tuscany and Liguria .

General

In ancient times the river was called the Macra . It is the name given to the Val di Magra and flows through the historic Lunigiana region . With a discharge rate of 60 m³ / s at the river mouth, the Magra is the largest river in Liguria.

On April 8, 2020, the almost 300 meter long mostly busy Albiano Magra bridge collapsed over the river near Caprigliola. Due to the curfew to contain the COVID pandemic , only one driver was injured.

course

River course
River plain at the confluence with the Vara and valley cut between Albiano Magra and Santo Stefano

It rises in the Tuscan province of Massa-Carrara and flows into the Ligurian province of La Spezia in Bocca di Magra (part of Ameglia ) into the Ligurian Sea . It touches or flows through the places Pontremoli (236  m altitude ), Migliarina (179 m, district of Filattiera ), Villafranca in Lunigiana (130 m), Ponte Magra (125 m, district of Mulazzo ), Ca 'Rapetti (122 m, district of Villafranca), Ponte (74 m, district of Tresana ), Terrarossa (74 m, district of Licciana Nardi ), Bagni (65 m, district of Podenzana ), Aulla (64 m). Then he moves to the province of La Spezia (Liguria) and meets Santo Stefano di Magra (50 m), Piano di Vezzano (14 m, district of Vezzano Ligure ), Piano di Arcola (district of Arcola ), Sarzana and Ameglia.

The most important tributaries are the Aulella (34 km long, flows into Aulla), the Bagnone (18 km, flows into Villafranca in Lunigiana), the Caprio (12 km, flows into Filattiera), the Vara (58 km, flows) at Vezzano Ligure / Santo Stefano di Magra) and the Verde (18 km, flows at Pontremoli).

The Magra in Literature

The Magra was mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Paradiso of his Divine Comedy (Paradise, Canto 9, 88-90).

  • Di quella valle fu 'io litorano, tra Ebro e Macra, che per cammin corto parte lo Genovese dal Toscano
  • German in the translation by Carl Streckfuß : I live on this great valley edge, between Ebro and Macra, which, not long, separates Genoa's territory from the Tusker country. (The poet alludes to the city of Marseille, halfway between the Ebro and Magra)

literature

  • Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi , Bonechi Editrice, Florence 1993, ISBN 88-7009-941-5 , pp. 153-163
  • Emanuele Repetti: MAGRA fiume (Macra). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)

Web links

River near the mouth with a bridge collapse at Ameglia (2011)
Commons : Magra River  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Enciclopedie on line (Treccani)
  2. ↑ cf. Repetti
  3. ↑ Italy: The collapse of the bridge between Liguria and Tuscany , accessed on April 9, 2020
  4. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) for the places in the province of Massa-Carrara (2001), accessed on March 9, 2013 (ital.)
  5. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) for the places in the province of La Spezia (2001), accessed on March 9, 2013 (Italian)
  6. ↑ a b c d cf. SIRA
  7. ↑ Wikisource, accessed on March 9, 2013: Divine Comedy (Streckfuß 1876) / Paradiso