Editing Lerici (section)

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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Lerici
| official_name       = Comune di Lerici
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| image_skyline       = Lerici-02.jpg
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| coordinates         = {{coord|44|04|35|N|09|54|40|E|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| region              = [[Liguria]]
| province            = [[Province of La Spezia|La Spezia]] (SP)
| frazioni            = [[San Terenzo]], [[Tellaro]], La Serra, Pugliola, Solaro, Muggiano, Pozzuolo, Venere Azzurra, Senato
| mayor_party         = 
| mayor               = Leonardo Paoletti
| area_footnotes      = 
| area_total_km2      = 15
| population_footnotes = <ref>[http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html ISTAT] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184737/http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
| population_total    = 10205
| population_as_of    = 31 August 2017
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| population_demonym  = Lericini
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m         = 0
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| saint               = Madonna of Maralunga
| day                 = March 25
| postal_code         = 19032, 19036, 19030
| area_code           = 0187
| website             = {{official website|http://www.comune.lerici.sp.it}}
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'''Lerici''' ({{langx|lij|Lerxi}}, locally {{lang|lij|Lerze}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Dizionario Genovese-Italiano e Italiano-Genovese|place=Genoa|last=Frisoni|first=Gaetano|authorlink=:it:Gaetano Frisoni|year=1910|publisher=Nuova Editrice Genovese|language=it}}</ref>) is a ''[[comune]]'' in the [[province of La Spezia]], in the [[Italy|Italian]] region of [[Liguria]], part of the [[Italian Riviera]]. It is situated on the coast of the [[Gulf of La Spezia]], {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} southeast of [[La Spezia]]. It is known as the place where the poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] drowned. The town is connected by ferry to the [[Cinque Terre]] and [[Porto Venere]].

One of the main sights of Lerici is its castle which since its first founding in 1152 was used to help control the entrance of the Gulf of La Spezia. For a long time, the castle contained a museum of [[Paleontology|palaeontology]] inspired by a local lad (Walter) finding dinosaur bones in the region.