Livorno artistic itineraries
- A journey from the station to the seafront
- Route B Santuario di Montenero
A journey from the station to the seafront
Arrived at the station cross Piazza Dante and then walk on Viale Carducci until you reach viale Alfieri. Percorriamolo across and continue on Viale Petrarca until troviamovia Calzabigi which overlooks the museum that the city has dedicated to its most famous composer.
Museum Mascagna
Located in Villa Maria, called the Castle, this museum was built thanks a donation to the heirs of the composer, in his rooms are kept autographs, photographs, diplomas, correspondence, memorabilia of Mascagni, including pianos and a page of Cavalleria rusticana.
At the end of Via Calzabigi take first street Bonomo and then viale Marconi, from there it curved in Micali where the Jewish museum.
Yeshiva Jewish Museum Marini
Housed in an elegant neoclassical building, houses the Jewish Museum vestments, silver and objects of worship, some of whom come from the oldest synagogue, destroyed by the bombardments of the Second World War. Among the major works should be reported Hekhl of the sixteenth century, containing parchment scrolls of the Torah, and an Ark richly carved gilded wood and decorated, that tradition is to be arrived at Livorno thanks to some refugee Jews of Portugal.
Traveled all the way to arrive in Paul, here we come by way of the crown, which leads us to the streets of Cisternone. Just passed the entrance, we can see the big tank covered with a characteristic dome halved. Walking through St Andrew Square will finish in the Mille, and from there you can reach one of the most extensive and suggestive places of the city: Piazza della Repubblica. Dating back to the first half of the nineteenth century, the square is like a huge bridge in time, the so-called "Voltone", 240 meters long, to join the new town in the middle ancient bypassing the Fosso Reale. At the center were built statues of Lorraine Grand Dukes Ferdinand III and Leopold II, damaged during the Risorgimento in 1849, was removed and placed in the nearby Piazza XX Settembre. Turning around the Fosso Reale can admire the Fortezza Nuova, so named to distinguish it from the previous year. Built between the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, its design involved a number of architects such as Bernardo Buontalenti and was wanted by the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de 'Medici. The ancient ramparts Medici has a polygonal structure which is accessed from the bridge on Scali. In this way we enter into a public park which is currently used for this space, used until the Second World War for military purposes. Continuing to stop the Bishopric you enter the heart of neighborhood called the new Venice by the presence of numerous channels. Dirigiamoci to the square of the Dominicans, where stands the church of Santa Caterina.
Chiesa di Santa Caterina
This octagonal building set reveals in his lower its incompleteness. Implemented as from 1720 on the original draft of John Del Fantasia, has seen over the course of time those who have directed their work. A Upon entering you can admire the frescoes of the eighteenth and Lands Traballesi and in particular the canvas painted by Vasari with the Coronation of the Virgin, placed above the altar.
During the eighteenth century was supported at a church convent of Dominican friars, which is still visible, was recently used as a prison, which had among its most illustrious tristemente "guests", the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini, who was arrested during the Fascist era.
From the square of the Dominicans is derived by Borra, noble and elegant way in which in past centuries were built the palaces of the wealthiest merchant families and the premises of embassies. Among the most beautiful buildings stands the palace columns, the marble facade differs from other sandstone. Then running along the street of Via Madonna Grande reach that leads the homonymous square that faces the cathedral.
Duomo
Originally built at the end of the sixteenth century, the church went unfortunately destroyed during the bombings of World War II and then restored according to the drawing primitive. Meticulous work has made it possible to restore life even in some works, like the more fine marble, enriched by the side of angel-headed by Quesnay.
Visited cathedral, walk along a straight line made up via Cairoli, Piazza Cavour, Via Ricasoli and Piazza Attias and so we arrive in Rome, the street that houses several buildings of particular historic and artistic interest, then we go to visit them from the house of the painter Amedeo Modigliani labronico.
Christmas House Amedeo Modigliani
One of the artists in this city was the birthplace is Amedeo Modigliani. Visiting the rooms of his house you can trace the entire artistic and human story of the great painter, the late Leghorn until the Parisian artistic maturity, with the exposure of documents autographs, the most significant paintings and original works. The furniture has been reconstructed on the basis of family-Garsin Modigliani and furniture originals have been located under the display functions.Museum of Natural History Mediterranean
As already happened for the Museum Mascagna, again a magnificent historical residence Leghorn has become a museum, it is this time of the eighteenth century villa Henderson will host most of the areas permanent exhibition of the Museum of Natural History of the Mediterranean. The course aims to illustrate the Mediterranean region, its geological history, botany, zoology, the history of peoples who were and successive transformations of the natural heritage related to the influence of man. Well as to cover materials and specimens from scientific collections, you may use teaching aids and iconographic and multimedia tools.
The visit does not end here. In fact, within the historic park of the villa, designed as a beautiful garden, is housed various structures such as the hall of the sea where visible example of a fin whale and the genetic laboratory. Of note is the dedicated global el'orto botanical flora of the Mediterranean, and in particular to those plant species typical of the province of Livorno, the Tuscan coast and the archipelago.
Completed via Rome arrives in Piazza Matteotti, which partly via Montebello; percorriamola up to Via San Jacopo in Acquaviva where the entrance to one of the finest museums in the city of Leghorn and more.
Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori
The Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum is located in the prestigious villa Mimbelli, home of the nineteenth century wealthy merchant Francesco Mimbelli.
The route runs on two floors connected by a monumental staircase putti decorated with ceramic invetriata. The halls are exposed masterpieces Livorno and Tuscany eight-twentieth century, among which the paintings by Giovanni Boldini, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Plinio Nomellini, Amedeo Modiglioni. One or two rooms are reserved for temporary exhibitions of works from the collection in a continuous succession of graphic works, paintings by artists of the postwar Livorno.
Take care also for decorative rooms that have kept intact their splendor nineteenth, decorations, furniture and curtains, everything communicates the pediment of this villa, set in a lush exotic park where you can relax in the shade of a palm or attending an event in twentieth-air theater.
After observing some of the most beautiful paintings depicting the coast labronica, dirigiamoci to admire it from life, taking away Heavy Cavalry ends of the section in which it extends in the seafront terrace Mascagni, elegant viewpoint from which you opens to a breathtaking panorama view of the sea and islands of the Tuscan archipelago. In this place, forming a balustrade of marble columns and a floor of mosaic tiles, there was a time of the Fort Cavalleggeri, post in defense of the coast, replaced at the beginning of the twentieth century by an amusement park. Construction of the terrace dates from the twenties and was embellished with the addition of short Gazebo, used for conducting musical. In the plaza in front is to report the presence of the aquarium community, currently under expansion.Route B Santuario di Montenero
On a hill which overlooks the sea and the port of Livorno rises Montenero . Once the refuge of robbers and that is the place dark, the mountain of the devil, this place has become famous for the presence of vallombrosano shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Grace. According to tradition a shepherd in 1345 cripple was healed after having conducted on the summit of the hill a miraculous image of the Virgin, by then considered a source of grace and devotion from those who are targeting. Around this icon is born today Shrine, a pilgrimage continues.