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ART AND HISTORY
| Livorno was defined as an "ideal town" at the time of 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. | |
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In the 18th and 19th centuries Livorno had a lively appearance marked by
noblemen's houses, neo-classical buildings, parks and Liberty villas. Once cross-roads for the world and home to many foreign communities from all over the world, Livorno reveals a cosmopolitan soul and links to the main European cultural schools of art. Amedeo Modigliani, Giovanni Fattori, Pietro Mascagni, Giorgio Caproni, natives of Livorno and European citizens, reproduced the town's richness of character. Between the sea and the woods a path unwinds and leads to treasures of art, culture and architecture, carefully preserved in a land that the Etruscans loved so deeply. These people built the only necropolis ever to be situated by the sea in the gulf of Baratti and left numerous important traces of their life there. |
| On the hills the mediaeval villages witness an ancient history through their narrow stone-paved streets, quiet churches, small parishes, castles and towers, giving life to a long ancient past which seems here close at hand. | |