Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Livorno, Italy

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Number of sights 22 sights
Distance 5.3 km
Ascend 69 m
Descend 74 m

Experience Livorno in Italy in a whole new way with our free 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 Livorno

Sight 1: Parco Sandro Pertini Parterre

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The Pertini Park, still known by the ancient name of Parterre, is located on Viale Carducci in Livorno.

Wikipedia: Parco Pertini (IT)

412 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Cisternone

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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.

Wikipedia: Cisternone (Livorno) (IT)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie

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68 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Chiesa di Sant'Andrea

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The church of Sant'Andrea is a place of worship in Livorno; 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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Sant'Andrea (Livorno) (IT)

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Museo diocesano Leonello Barsotti

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The Leonello Barsotti Diocesan Museum is a museum of sacred art in Livorno.

Wikipedia: Museo diocesano Leonello Barsotti (IT)

612 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa di San Benedetto

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The church of San Benedetto in Livorno stands at the end of the large Piazza XX Settembre, outside the pentagonal city of Buontalenti.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Benedetto (Livorno) (IT)

307 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Mercato Centrale

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The Mercato delle vettovaglie, also known as the Central Market or Covered Market, rises on the Aurelio Saffi railway yards, along the Fosso Reale di Livorno.

Wikipedia: Mercato delle vettovaglie (IT)

379 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Monumento a Giovanni Fattori

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The monument to Giovanni Fattori is a statue located in Largo del Cisternino, Livorno.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Giovanni Fattori (IT)

134 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Monumento a Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

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The monument to Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi is located in Piazza Guerrazzi in Livorno.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (IT)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Duomo di Livorno

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The cathedral of Livorno, which also has the name of the cathedral of San Francesco, is the main place of Catholic worship in Livorno, mother church of the diocese of the same name.

Wikipedia: Duomo di Livorno (IT)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: Chiesa di Santa Giulia

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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 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 are preserved sacred furnishings and a table 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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Giulia (Livorno) (IT)

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Sinagoga

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The New Synagogue of Livorno, or Great Synagogue of Livorno, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, that is located at Piazza Benamozegh 1, in Livorno, in Tuscany, Italy. Designed in the Modernist style, the synagogue was completed in 1922.

Wikipedia: New Synagogue of Livorno (EN)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di San Sebastiano

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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 Sovereign Priest.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Sebastiano (Livorno) (IT)

185 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Monumento dei Quattro Mori

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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.

Wikipedia: Monument of the Four Moors (EN)

343 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Bagno Penale

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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 building, between the port and Piazza Grande. It also housed the hospital of Sant'Antonio and here were also the churches 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 were printed and, in 1770, the third edition of the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonnè des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers by Diderot and D'Alembert.

Wikipedia: Bagno dei forzati (IT)

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Vittorio Emanuele II

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The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II is a bronze equestrian statue from Livorno located in the center of Piazza Unità d'Italia.

Wikipedia: Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II (Livorno) (IT)

190 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

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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.

Wikipedia: San Giovanni Battista, Livorno (EN)

377 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata

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The church of the Santissima Annunziata, also known as the church of the United Greeks for the professed Greek-Catholic religious rite, is a Catholic place of worship in Livorno.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata (Livorno) (IT)

114 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Chiesa della Madonna

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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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Madonna (Livorno) (IT)

39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 20: Chiesa armena di San Gregorio Illuminatore

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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.

Wikipedia: San Gregorio Illuminatore, Livorno (EN)

363 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Chiesa di Santa Caterina

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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.

Wikipedia: Santa Caterina da Siena, Livorno (EN)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Venezia Nuova

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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 vestiges. Although it does not coincide with the original nucleus of Medici Livorno, it therefore represents the true historic center of the city.

Wikipedia: Venezia Nuova (IT)

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