Tourism Livorno - Italy
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Livorno localities
Do you want a quiet country locality where spend some nights? Or do you want to visit museums and enjoy many cultural cities? Do you want to go to the seaside and taste biological products?
Localities near
Livorno:
Bibbona
Bolgheri
Campiglia Marittima
Capoliveri
Castagneto Carducci
Castellaccio
Cecina
Collesalvetti
Livorno
Marina Di Bibbona
Marina Di Campo - Isola D'elba
Porto Azzurro
Portoferraio
Portoferraio-isola D'elba
Quercianella
Rosignano Marittimo
San Vincenzo
Sant'uberto
Suvereto
Vada -
Venturina
Livorno: Tourism information Livorno
Livorno
Livorno (archaic English: Leghorn) is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of 170,000 as of 2004.
Livorno: History
Livorno was defined as an "ideal town" during the Renaissance. Nowadays it reveals its history through its neighbourhoods, crossed by canals and surrounded by fortified town-walls, through the tangle of its streets, which embroider the town's Venice district, and through the Medici Port characteristically overlooked by towers and fortresses leading to the town centre.
Designed by the architect Bernardo Buontalenti at the end of the 16th century, Livorno underwent a period of great town planning expansion at the end of the 17th century. Near the defensive pile of the Old Fortress, a new fortress, together with the town-walls and the system of navigable canals, was then built.
Nowadays the Venice district preserves most of its original town planning and architectural features such as the bridges, the narrow lanes, the noblemen's houses and a dense network of canals which once linked the port to its storehouses. In the 18th and 19th centuries Livorno, by then grown up and open to the world, had a lively appearance marked by neo-classical buildings, town parks housing important museums and cultural institutions, Liberty villas with sea views, the market.
Some Moriscos (Muslim Spaniards forcibly converted to Catholicism) moved from Spain to Livorno in the 18th century.
Livorno: Main sights
The Museo Mascagnano houses memorabilia, documents and operas by the great composer Pietro Mascagni. Every year some of his operas are traditionally played during the lyric music season, which is organised by the Traditional Theatre of Livorno.
Up in the hills the Sanctuary of Montenero, which is dedicated to Our Lady of the Graces, the patron saint of Tuscany, is a fixed destination for pilgrims. It is famous for the adjacent gallery, decorated with ex-voti mainly connected to stories of miraculous sea rescue.
The "Monumento dei quattro mori" ("Monument of the Four Turks"), dedicated to Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici of Tuscany, is one of the most important monuments of Livorno.
Livorno localities:
CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA Campo Nell''elba CAPOLIVERI Capraia Isola CASTAGNETO CARDUCCI CECINA COLLESALVETTI LIVORNO Marciana Marciana Marina Piombino PORTO AZZURRO PORTOFERRAIO Rio Marina Rio Nell''elba ROSIGNANO MARITTIMO SAN VINCENZO Sassetta SUVERETO
Part of the information regarding the history, the art, the traditions and the events of the province of present Livorno on this page is drawn from the situated one www.wikipedia.org respecting the GNU Free Documentation License.
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