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When folding the sheet, we would suggest placing pressure with your fingers on the side to be folded, so that it might open up, but if you want to permanently remedy this problem, 1 2 it is enough to apply a very small amount of glue. THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism © 2005 Netplan srl. All rights reserved. All material on this document is © Netplan. © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism Photos courtesy of: APT Costa degli Etruschi and Comune di Livorno THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE 1 Summary THINGS TO KNOW 3 Getting there 4 History and culture THINGS TO SEE 5 Historical Buildings and Museums 7 Places and charm THINGS TO TRY 9 Eating and Drinking 10 Shopping 11 Hotels and lodgings THINGS TO EXPERIENCE 12 Events ITINERARIES 13 Beaches, marinas and nature reserves 15 The Etruscan coast 17 Volterra and Val di Cecina © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO KNOW 3 4 THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO KNOW Getting there History and culture A shuttle bus will take you to the Pisa Centrale from everywhere who moved to the city to train station where trains leave for Livorno. work. Thus the foreign communities, called Otherwise, you can fly to Florence or Roma “Nazioni” flourished; primarily Jews, who lived Fiumicino, and go to Livorno by train. here free from the humiliation of a ghetto, but also Greeks, Armenians, English, French, Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese, Russians, Muslims and Waldensians. Many remains can still be seen of this old cosmopolitan city: the various churches of the Nazioni, cemeteries, cuisine and obviously Livorno’s inhabitants. Livorno was declared a free port, where goods were completely exempt from taxes. In 1629 Ferdinando II had a new quarter built by Venetian masters which connected the 23 islands by bridges: this quarter is now called Venezia Nuova. The year 1736 marked the end of the Medici dynasty and the rise of the Grand Dukes of Lorraine, connected to Austria’s’s Hapsburgs. The city began to expand outside the Medici walls, slowly losing Livorno: Amerigo Vespucci school ship Livorno: Venezia Nuova its city-fortress appearance. Livorno can be easily reached in different The origins of present day Livorno date back to The 19th century was, after the 17th century, ways. the 15th century. A small port called Liburna the city’s golden century, a time of a great existed in Roman times, built from a natural drive of the economy, arts, publishing and By car: from Milan take the A1 freeway to cove, which was under the domination of Pisa culture. Many important public works were Parma, then the A15 for La Spezia, and the for all of the Middle Ages. A 1017 document built like the Aqueduct of Colognole and A12 to Livorno. mentions the presence of a castle named Cisternone, which brought and purified water From Rome take A12 Roma-Civitavecchia Livorna. from the inland hills; the Molo Nuovo, train freeway and continue on highway E80 (the station and new city walls were constructed at “Aurelia”) until Livorno. From Florence take In 1421 the small port, under the reign of the same time. The bathing concessions also the Firenze-Pisa-Livorno (Fi-Pi-Li) until the Genoa, was sold to Florence, at that time rose at the same time, making Livorno one of city center. undergoing major expansion and needing an the major vacation centers for Italians. The From Bologna take the A1 freeway until the efficient outlet at the sea. From this time on seaside promenade is still one of the prettiest Firenze-Signa exit and then the Firenze-Pisa- Livorno was ruled by the Medici family who areas of the city. Livorno became part of the Livorno highway. for more than three centuries transformed united Italy in 1860. The suppression of the the small village into one of the most free port marked the transformation of the By train: Livorno is on the Rome-Genoa important ports of the Mediterranean. At the economy from maritime to industrial. Livorno line with frequent trains in both directions. end of the 16th century Francesco I assigned was seriously damaged during the Second Livorno is also connected to Florence by Buontalenti with the task of making Livorno a World War and is currently trying to recover direct trains, the trip lasts around one and full-fledged city and he made it able to house its past role as cultural and tourism leader. a half hours. See the Trenitalia website for 20,000 people inside the walls and 300 ships train schedules. in the port. By plane: The closest airport to Livorno is In 1606 Ferdinando I presented Livorno Pisa’s “Galileo Galilei” International Airport with the “Costituzione Livornina”, which in Pisa. gave incentives and privileges to merchants © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO SEE 5 6 THE LIVORNO & ETRUSCAN COAST CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO SEE Historical Buildings and Museums Fortezza Vecchia (Old Fortress) is an inscriptions. During the past century the impressive pentagonal fortress surrounded cemetery was a spot visited by many literati by moats, built in the 16th century to defend and scholars. The Scottish novelist Tobias the Medici port. It contains a medieval (11th Smollet is one of the many famous people century) keep and cylindrical tower. The buried here. fortress is enclosed by powerful ramparts reinforced in the 19th century to house G. Fattori Town Museum, this museum, artillery. The small church of San Francesco housed in the 19th century Villa Mimbelli, (mid-16th century) also merits a visit. near Terrazza Mascagni, is home to the most important collection of works by the San Ferdinando, behind Fortezza Vecchia, Macchiaoli and Postmacchiaoli painters, is a church worth seeing for its splendid fundamental movements in Italian art interior decorations, which seem completely between the 19th and 20th centuries, which unimaginable looking at the unfinished had its focal point in Livorno. exterior. The interior is a triumph of marble Open: from Tuesday to Sunday; 10:00am- sculpture, all late Baroque works by Giovanni 1:00pm / 4:00pm-7:00pm Baratta who sculpted them based on a single design. The environment thus acquired an Yeshivà Marini Jewish Museum, displays a extraordinary uniformness of forms and styles collection of furniture and sacred paraments, rarely found in a church. a collection of 17th to 20th century books and Livorno: the Four Moors a 16th Hekhàl which contains the rolls of the Fortezza Nuova (New Fortress) is an impressive Torah. The exhibited works come from the old Francesco I De Medici had Buontalenti polygon fortress in stone and brick, built at Synagogue which was destroyed during the design an “ideal city” to give the new port the end of the 16th century. The fortress is war. The flourishing trade that enlivened the a residential area during the second half of completely surrounded by Medici canals and port of Livorno, and of which the Jews were the 16th century. This was the origin of the dominates the old working class district of the main protagonists, made the patrimony oldest part of Livorno, a fortified city with Venezia Nuova. It is a beautiful example of of the synagogue equally heterogeneous. The a pentagonal shape surrounded by navigable 16th century fortification, its underground museum is home to Dutch, Northern African, canals, the Fossi Medicei, and cut down the passages, large vaulted halls and walkways Florentine, Roman and Venetian objects as middle by the present day Via Grande. The for the guards can be visited, while inside is well as those made by Livorno’s inhabitants. main sights of Livorno are concentrated inside a buttressed rampart which now is home to a The museum is open by reservation the Medici part of the city. public park. only. Information and reservations: tel. +39.0586.893361 - fax +39.0586.889198 Quattro Mori is the symbolic monument of Cisternone is an impressive Neoclassical Livorno, located in Piazza del Padiglione, in building inspired on Roman baths, which was front of the old wharf and Medici port. The used to purify the water brought to the city monument is composed of a marble statue from the Colognole aqueduct. The portico of Grand Duke Ferdinando II and four bronze with eight Doric columns is surmounted by statues depicting chained prisoners. The an impressive niche. The interior is a large bodies of the four Muslims has a great moving decantation cistern divided into naves by effect which contrasts with the cold and pilasters emerged in the water. detached appearance of the Grand Duke. The monument celebrates the Order of English Cemetery A very interesting the Knights of St.