Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Livorno, Italy
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7 km
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Experience Livorno in Italy in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in LivornoIndividual Sights in LivornoSight 1: Parco delle Terme
The Acque della Salute thermal baths, also known as Terme del Corallo, are located in Livorno, between Via Orosi and Piazza Dante, near the railway station.
Sight 2: Parco Sandro Pertini Parterre
The Pertini Park, still known by the ancient name of Parterre, is located on Viale Carducci in Livorno.
Sight 3: Cisternone
The Cisternone, or Gran Conserva, is a monumental neoclassical tank built in the first half of the nineteenth century by the architect Pasquale Poccianti, for the water supply of Livorno.
Sight 4: Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie
Sight 5: Chiesa di Sant'Andrea
The church of Sant'Andrea is a place of worship in Livorno, Italy. it is located on Piazza del Cisternone, in front of the characteristic bulk of the Gran Conserva. Adjacent to the church is the large Girolamo Gavi Seminary, with the Leonello Barsotti Diocesan Museum.
Sight 6: Museo diocesano Leonello Barsotti
The Leonello Barsotti Diocesan Museum is a museum of sacred art in Livorno, Italy.
Sight 7: Chiesa di San Benedetto
The church of San Benedetto in Livorno stands at the end of the large Piazza XX Settembre, outside the pentagonal city of Buontalenti.
Sight 8: Mercato Centrale
The Victuals Market, also known as the Central Market or the Covered Market, stands on the Aurelio Saffi yards, along the Fosso Reale in Livorno.
Sight 9: Monumento a Giovanni Fattori
The monument to Giovanni Fattori is a statue located in Largo del Cisternino, Livorno.
Sight 10: Monumento a Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
The monument to Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi is located in Piazza Guerrazzi in Livorno.
Sight 11: Duomo di Livorno
The cathedral of Livorno, which also has the name of the cathedral of San Francesco, is the main place of Catholic worship in Livorno, the mother church of the diocese of the same name.
Sight 12: Chiesa di Santa Giulia
The Oratory of Santa Giulia is a church in Livorno, consecrated to the patron saint of the city and born as an oratory of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament and of Santa Giulia. The small place of worship stands next to the Duomo, a short distance from Piazza Grande. Attached to the church are the oratory of San Ranieri and the Museum of Santa Giulia. In the latter there are sacred furnishings and a panel of the Giotto school depicting the saint of the same name, coming from the church of the confraternity, and even more anciently from the destroyed parish church of Santa Giulia near the old port.
Sight 13: Sinagoga
The Synagogue of Livorno is a historic synagogue in Livorno, Italy.
Sight 14: Chiesa di San Sebastiano
The church of San Sebastiano is located in the center of Livorno, in the area between the Duomo and the Medici Port. Testimony of the presence of the Barnabite order in the city, today it is entrusted to the Institute of Christ the King High Priest.
Sight 15: Monumento dei Quattro Mori
The Monument of the Four Moors is located in Livorno, Italy. It was completed in 1626 to commemorate the victories of Ferdinand I of Tuscany over the Ottomans.
Sight 16: Bagno Penale
The Bagno dei forzati, or Bagno delle galere, was a large building that, until the years before the Second World War, stood in Livorno, in the area of the current Government Palace, between the port and Piazza Grande. It also housed the hospital of Sant'Antonio and here were also located the church of the Purification and that of Sant'Antonio, as well as the Tipografia Coltellini, where the first edition of Cesare Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene was printed and, in 1770, the third edition of Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonnè des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers.
Sight 17: Vittorio Emanuele II
The Monument to Victor Emmanuel II is a bronze equestrian statue from Livorno located in the center of Piazza Unità d'Italia.
Sight 18: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
San Giovanni Battista is a Baroque-Mannerist style, Roman Catholic church located at the crossing of Via San Giovanni and Via Carraia in central Livorno, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Sight 19: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata
The church of Santissima Annunziata, also known as the church of the United Greeks for the professed Greek-Catholic religious rite, is a place of Catholic worship in Livorno, Italy.
Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata (Livorno) (IT)
Sight 20: Chiesa della Madonna
The church of the Madonna, formally dedicated to Saints Mary, Julia and Francis, stands on the street of the same name, in the heart of Livorno, a few meters from the church of the United Greeks and the remains of the Armenian church.
Sight 21: Chiesa armena di San Gregorio Illuminatore
The church of San Gregorio Illuminatore was the former church of the Armenian Catholic branch in Livorno, region of Tuscany. Destroyed after the Second World War, only the elegant Baroque facade remains, now property of the Patriarch of Cilicia, and standing between two three story buildings serving since 2008 as an intercultural center. The facade is visible on via della Madonna, not far from the Temple of the Greci Uniti and the church of the Madonna. The marble facade had statues of Charity and Faith by Andrea Vaccà, and an oval image of St Gregory the Illuminator.
Sight 22: Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Santa Caterina da Siena is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church in the district Venezia Nuova central Livorno, region of Tuscany, Italy. It stands in front of the Piazza dei Domenicani. The church is notable for its tall octagonal dome and lantern rising above a rough, unfinished rectangular base.
Sight 23: Venezia Nuova
Venezia Nuova is a district of the Italian city of Livorno, the only one in the city center that, after the devastation of the Second World War and the post-war reconstruction, has preserved most of its urban and architectural remains. Although it does not coincide with the original nucleus of the Medici Livorno, it therefore represents the true historic center of the city.
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