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Rapallo

A serene harbor scene in Rapallo, a picturesque coastal town in north-western Italy, with boats docked along the quay and a backdrop of charming buildings and lush green hills under a soft twilight sky.

A small port on the Ligurian coast of north-western Italy, between Genoa and Portofino. The harbour drops quickly into deep water, which makes it a convenient sampling site for plankton studies; generations of marine biologists working out of Genoa and Naples have collected jellyfish there. It was a jar of Rapallo plankton, kept on a windowsill in 1988, that first revealed Turritopsis dohrnii reversing its life cycle.

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