Gulf of Piran Gulf of Piran The Gulf of Piran or Piran Bay (, or, recently, , ) is located in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, and is a part of the southernmost tip of the Gulf of Trieste. It was named after the town of Piran, and its shores are shared by Croatia and Slovenia. It is delimited by a line connecting Cape Savudrija ("Savudrijski rt") in the south to the Cape Madona ("Rt Madona") in the north and measures around . Since the 1990s, the name Bay of Savudrija ("Savudrijska vala") has also been used in Croatia. On the
Gulf of La Spezia Islands in the gulf include Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto. The poet and dramatist Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in the gulf in 1822. Gulf of La Spezia The Gulf of La Spezia (Italian: "Golfo della Spezia" or "Golfo dei poeti") is a body of water on the north-western coast of Italy and part of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, specifically of Ligurian Sea. It measures some 4.5 (length) by 3-3.5 (width) kilometers. The gulf is named for the Italian city of La Spezia, located at its middle point, which is also the main military and cargo port in the gulf, including several