Livorno
was defined as an "ideal town" during 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 leading to the town
centre. Designed by the architect Bernardo Buontalenti at the end of the
16th century, Livorno underwent a period of great town planning expansion
at the end of the 17th century. Near the defensive pile of the Old
Fortress, a new fortress, together with the
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town-walls and the system of
navigable canals, was then built. Nowadays the Venice district preserves
most of its original town planning and architectural features such as the
bridges, the narrow lanes, the noblemen's houses and a dense network of
canals which once linked the port to its storehouses. In the 18th and 19th
centuries Livorno, by then grown up and open to the world, had a lively
appearance marked by neo-classical buildings, town parks housing important
museums and cultural institutions, Liberty villas with sea views, the
market. Some Moriscos (Muslim Spaniards forcibly converted to Catholicism)
moved from Spain to Livorno in 1700 century.
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