Livorno Things to Do

At the end of the Terrazza Mascagni, a piazza opens up, ending with the church of San Jacopo in Acquaviva. Not the most attractive church in the world, it's not...

Behind Piazza della Repubblica, the main canal re-appears and turns a corner, where the buildings alongside it become much grander and more impressive as you...

Livorno has plenty of old churches dotted around the place, although I only went inside one. I remember one church looked as if it had just survived a bomb...

In the heart of Venezia Nuova is this church, which looks quite plain from the outside, just dull bricks and an octagonal belltower. But inside, the dome is...

The streets around the Fortezza Nuova were built to resemble Venice, with a network of canals and bridges. It's not exactly a small Venice...the buildings...

The Corso Carducci takes you right into the old part of the city, and the main square. It is packed with people and parking is a nightmare. Of course on the day...

the climate in Livorno is so good that we actually don't have what you call a proper winter, just spring, summer and autumnwe are in January 2007 and it's...

i love strolling around with my friends' crazyass dog, the so called Dogatee or Manadog (in between a dog and a manatee),i come here on foot or by bike almost...

Livorno has got the old fortress on the harbour but in my wanderings I didn't see a lot of old stuff. (And I never took a photo of the fortress. Dunno why. I...

... that I hadn't arrived in Livorno kitted out with waterproof beach bag and all the trimmings. Like I saw so many people on the bus kitted out with. (I would...

About a kilometre further on I came upon the full complement of arrangements for sea bathing and sun baking.More sun baking than bathing.There were sandy...

I took my shoes off and put the feet into the Mediterranean for the very first time!They appreciated it very much indeed.Because, oh, how my feet suffered in...

... along what I found out to be an 18th century promenade, when I saw a young guy in speedos come up a tiny track.So I went down the track thinking there was...

Bought a ticket at a news stand. In Livorno it is a bit less than 1 euro for 60 minutes. I waited at the bus stop for the first bus that came along.Realised I...

... for the second gent.The paramedics patted him a lot too. It seemed to comfort him.They loaded him into the back. He was talking voluably, waving his hands...

... the old gent who had been riding the vespa in the first accident turned up, on his feet, looking sprightly.Bit of a palaver. Everyone was quite cool.The...

Then an old gent on another vespa ran up onto the footpath and crunched himself. No idea why.Everyone attending to the first accident turned around, flapped...