 The city was chosen as the site of the "Deutsches Marinekommando Italien" from October/November 1943 to February 1944, and from July 1944 to 27 April 1945 (as "Marineoberkommando Süd"), despite lying more than inland from the Adriatic Sea.Levico was bombed many times throughout the second part of the war; the largest bombing, on 15 March 1945 destroyed the spa building and the Regina hotel, at the time one of the most luxurious hotels in the region.After the war, Levico saw a large urbanistic expansion and the rebuilding of the spa complex (opened in 1965), developing the existing tourism-based economy even more.