Costa

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Contents 1 Places 1.1 Nation 1.2 In France 1.3 In Italy 1.4 In Portugal 1.5 In Spain 1.6 Other 2 Surnames 3 See also

Places

There are places that have the name Costa (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for coast):

Nation

• Costa Rica

In France

• Costa, a commune of the Haute-Corse département, on the island of Corsica

In Italy

• Costa de' Nobili, in the province of Pavia
• Costa di Mezzate, in the province of Bergamo
• Costa di Rovigo, in the province of Rovigo
• Costa di Serina, in the province of Bergamo
• Costa Masnaga, in the province of Lecco
• Costa Valle Imagna, in the province of Bergamo
• Costa Vescovato, in the province of Alessandria
• Costa Volpino, in the province of Bergamo

In Portugal

• Costa, a parish in the district of Guimarães

In Spain

Clockwise:

• Costa Brava (Spanish and Catalan, English: Brave Coast), in the province of Girona (Girona)
• Costa del Azahar (Orange-flower Coast), (province of Valencia)
• Costa Blanca ("White Coast"), province of Alicante
• Costa del Sol (Spanish, English: Sun Coast), in the province of Málaga (Málaga)
• Costa de la Luz ("Coast of the Light"), province of Huelva
• Costa da Morte (Galician, Spanish: Costa de la Muerte, English: Coast of Death), in the province of A Coruña (A Coruña)
• Costa Esmeralda ("Emerald Coast") Asturias.
• Costa Verde ("Green Coast") Cantabria
• Costa Vasca ("Basque Coast") Basque Country. See also Cote Basque.

Other

• Costa Mesa
• Costa Verde

Surnames

• Da Costa, da Costa
  • Isaäc da Costa(Isaac da Costa), Portuguese Jewish writer
  • Joan da Costa, Portuguese Jesuit
  • Uriel da Costa(Uriel Acosta), Portuguese Jewish writer
• Costa
  • Lorenzo Costa, Italian painter
  • Sir Michael Andrew Agnus Costa, Italian composer, conductor

See also

• Costa Coffee, a UK coffee shop chain
• Costa also refers to the leading edge of the forewing in Lepidoptera

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