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  Livorno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Livorno, sometimes in English Leghorn, (population 170,000) is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy.
It is the capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy.
Livorno inhabitants speak a colourful variant of the Tuscanian dialect of Italy named vernacolo, which is especially characterized by the popular interjection dé.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livorno   (229 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Livorno (Leghorn)
Livorno expanded and became a major port during the rule of the Medici family in the 16
In 1675, Livorno received the status of a free port and was an important connecting point between the Mediterranean, North Sea ports and the Near East.
Livorno’s first synagogue was located in the room of one of the Jewish residents living in the Fortress of Livorno in the period before the patented letters sent by the Medici family in 1548.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Livorno.html   (1563 words)

  
 A.S. Livorno Calcio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Livorno is known for the left-wing political ideas of their supporters and their fierce, and often violent, rivalry with several right wing team's supporters especially those of S.S. Lazio, Internazionale, Hellas Verona and with certain elements of A.S. Roma's support.
Livorno were promoted from Serie B after finishing 3rd in the league at the end of the 2003/04 campaign, one of six clubs to be promoted that season.
It had been fifty-five years since Livorno's last season in the top flight, and as a result of this, most were predicting an instant return to Serie B for the club.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A.S._Livorno_Calcio   (388 words)

  
 JEWISH AND KOSHER ITALY - TOSCANY - LIVORNO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Livorno was the ideal town during the late Renaissance, it was founded by Francesco de’ Medici I°, its development was characterized by a florid harbor activity and by the "Constitution" in 1593: this document helped the immigration, protecting the immigrant’s freedom, and helping the construction of new communities.
The number of Jews living in Livorno increased from 3,476 in 1738 to 4,327 in 1784, and to approximately 5,000 at the end of the century, amounting to one - eighth of the total population.
The Livorno synagogue became the most admired in Italy, and was visited by the great dukes of Tuscany and foreign sovereigns.
www.kosherdelight.com /ItalyTuscanyLivornoSynagogues.htm   (2152 words)

  
 Livorno, Italy
Livorno (traditionally known in English as Leghorn), chief town of its province and Tuscany's principal port, lies 20km/12.5mi south of Pisa on the edge of the alluvial cone deposited by the Arno.
Livorno thereafter enjoyed a rapid upsurge of prosperity, and by the end of the 18th century had become the largest town in Tuscany after Florence.
Livorno was the birthplace of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1844-1920) and the composer Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945).
www.planetware.com /italy/livorno-i-to-lh.htm   (221 words)

  
 ItalianVisits.com - Welcome to Livorno in Tuscany
Livorno, sometimes called Leghorn by the English, is the third largest port on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast of Italy, after Genoa to the north and Naples to the south.
Livorno's harbor is irregularly shaped, and a number of canals penetrate deeply into the old part of the city, a kind of ersatz Venice
Livorno endured declining importance, and a great deal of strife, particularly during the Risorgimento when it largely sided, against the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with the forces trying to achieve Italian unification and independence, which was finally accomplished in 1860.
www.italianvisits.com /tuscany/livorno   (1199 words)

  
 Livorno and Tuscany
Livorno has a population of around 200,000 and is a large modern commercial port.
Livorno blends the features of an exciting, lively town with the attractions of a seaside resort, as well as offering an extremely varied landscape and culture dating back to the time of the Romans.
Livorno is close to Pisa, Siena and Florence and to the heart of Tuscany with its scenery and colours which change with the season, and is thus ideal for day trips.
www.agoralivorno.com /English/livorno_and_tuscany.shtml   (242 words)

  
 Livorno Italy Tourist, Travel and Hotels guide.
Livorno was born as a small village inhabited by fishers.
The AC Hotel Livorno 4* is located just a few minutes away from the central railway station and in front of the new sporting centre and the new shopping centre.
The hotel is settled not far from the city centre (5 minutes) and from the residential area that, with its magnificent “liberty style” architectures, coasts the sea.
www.hotelslivorno.com   (365 words)

  
 Search Results for "Livorno"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A fortified town in the Middle Ages, Livorno was developed into a flourishing community by the Medici.
A friend of Byron and Shelley, he was at Livorno when Shelley was drowned, and later served with Byron in the...
The ports of Genoa, La Spezia, and Livorno are on its rocky coast.
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Livorno   (258 words)

  
 livorno
Infine c'è da dire che l'immagine deve essere stata scattata in una giornata di festa: i passanti, abbastanza numerosi, sono tutti vestiti con una certa eleganza.
Livorno attende ancora un «qualcosa,> che renda giustizia a Guerrazzi, un politico di primo piano e un grande scrittore.
Livorno non è più la capitale europea delle vacanze al mare come a fine Ottocento (quella magistralmente descritta da Coccolato Ferrigni, il livornese che inventò i servizi giornalistici da «inviato speciale») ma si difende ancora bene.
www.misteromania.it /cartoline_da/livorno.html   (2416 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet - Europe - Reggina v Livorno Report
Livorno had made the trip down Italy's west coast to play Reggina after Sunday's 2-1 home defeat in Leghorn by Chievo in a match watched by their most famous fan, Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
Livorno coach Franco Colomba, against his former club, had hoped for a win at the ground where he had two stints in charge.
Livorno switched their side around and altered their tactics after conceding that early goal.
soccernet.espn.go.com /report?id=163131&cc=3436   (535 words)

  
 Toskana.net - Holiday in Tuscany: Livorno and Province of Livorno
The Farm "Il Falcone" is situated outside of Suvereto in Maremma Tuscany, in the Southern part of the Province of Livorno, right on the border to the Province of Grosseto, only a few minutes from the Etruscan coast away.
Antico Podere San Francesco is situated between Livorno and Cecina, 2 km from the sea of the Etruscan Riviera in Tuscany.
Holiday Apartments in the Maremma area south from Livorno, not far from the sea of the Etruscan Coast and from San Vincenzo (1.5 Km).
www.toskana.net /tuscany/livorno.htm   (706 words)

  
 Studio Associato Agenzia Immobiliare a Livorno dal 1987
Livorno e' una delle citta' piu' importanti della riviera toscana, ben collegata con le maggiori citta' italiane ed estere dall'aeroporto di Pisa (10 km) e di Firenze (120 km) e dalle maggiori direttrici autostradali e ferroviarie italiane che la collegano alle citta' del Nord e del Sud Italia: Firenze, Roma, Genova, Torino, Milano, Parma, Bologna.
Livorno e' porto commerciale della Toscana, porto turistico, luogo di imbarco per ogni destinazione: Isola d'Elba, Sardegna, Sicilia, Corsica, e Francia.
Livorno e' anche una citta' commerciale, che vede la zona portuale ed il suo sviluppo al centro degli interessi economici locali.
www.generalisrl.com /toscana.html   (889 words)

  
 Livorno - Tuscany Italy
Livorno - Livorno, the Tuscan gateway to the Mediterranean Sea, is crossed by canals and situated by the seaside.
Planned as an ideal town in the 16th century, Livorno reveals its history through its districts characterised by the Medicean canals, which are still navigable, and through its port, overlooked by towers and fortresses, leading to the town centre.
Where is Livorno town: is located in the north of the province.
www.abctuscany.com /livorno/livorno-town/index.cfm   (198 words)

  
 Hotels in Province of Livorno
Located in the historic town of Livorno and one kilometer from the motorway with easy access to the Tuscan countryside.
Livorno, LI The hotel features 21 rooms with private bath, complitly renewed, with telephone, fax, Tv-sat, videorecording, fridge, safe-box, air conditioning.
Livorno, LI Converted from an immense villa built in 1700 and surrounded by a beautiful, peaceful, holm-oak forest, the sophisticated and pleasant hotel dominates the...
www.expedia.co.uk /daily/hotels/Italy/Livorno.asp   (497 words)

  
 Livorno hotel Toscanaquality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Livorno hotel: Il Consorzio di Promozione Turistica Toscanaquality riunisce oltre 130 operatori turistici e commerciali per la promozione e commercializzazione del turismo di qualità in Toscanaquality e in Costa Toscana.
Toscanaquality Livorno hotel in pochi anni di attività si è attestato ai vertici regionali per qualità dei servizi offerti e per modalità di commercializzazione.
Nella Toscanaquality gli alberghi, come i Livorno hotel, sono generalmente piccole ville nel verde, inadatte al turismo di massa, ma assai gradevoli per chi cerca un ambiente rilassante, familiare ed al tempo stesso curato e signorile grazie alla tradizione turistica e culturale del luogo.
www.toscana-hotels-costafiorita.it /livorno_hotel.htm   (412 words)

  
 LinguaNova - Italian School in Tuscany
LinguaNova is an Italian school of language, placed in Livorno, a town not very touristy and pleasantly overlooking the sea in Tuscany, close to the great cities of art.
Livorno (Leghorn) is a pleasant Tuscan town overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Livorno's history is brief: it was only from the 16th century onwards that it began to assume the dimension of a true city, at the same period in which Florence and the Medici were at the height of their splendour.
www.linguanova.com /e_index.htm   (747 words)

  
 Antonio Gramsci: Unions and councils (1921)
The end of the CGL's Livorno congress opens a new period in the history of the Italian working class.
Today, after three years of the workers' state, there is a new discussion on whether the time has come to pay great attention once more to the councils, in order to prevent new forms of syndicalism and to combat the new bureaucratic sedimentations that have been forming for three years.
The Livorno congress makes it necessary for the Italian communists today to examine this question and study it deeply, so that communist sections and groups can carry out a really coordinated and centralized overall activity.
www.marxists.org /archive/gramsci/works/1921/03/unions_councils.htm   (718 words)

  
 Rail Stations in Toscana: Livorno S. Marco
Livorno S. Marco is actually the older of all Railway station in Toscana, and one of older (if not the older of the ones surviving) in Italy
Since at Livorno the exit was on front, on right of the station have been built some small apartments for the railway workers.
he other station in Livorno, to serve the port are at Portonuovo and Darsena Toscana, on another track that leave from west from Calambrone and cross the new canal of navicelli on a swing bridge.
www.dicea.unifi.it /~leo/toscana/it/lismarco.htm   (1338 words)

  
 Toskana.net - Livorno - Die Stadt Livorno
Livorno befindet sich etwa 20 km von Pisa entfernt.
Außerdem befindet sich in Livorno der drittgrößte Containerhafen Italiens.
Ferdinand I. hatte die Intension, Livorno die wichtigste Hafenstadt des Staates werden zu lassen.
www.toskana.net /guida/toskana/livorno1.htm   (408 words)

  
 Military Installation Guides 2.0
Nearby is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, The Leaning Tower of Pisa, as well as the beach resort town of Tirrenia, which forms the southern reaches of the Italian Riviera.
The Area Support Team Livorno mission is logistical support war reserve storage and maintenance of weapons, vehicles for combat support.
Under the agreement, Italy provided the land and the United States began construction of a military post, a general depot and a port which were to be the basic facilities for the logistical command.
benefits.military.com /misc/installations/Base_Content.jsp?id=2395   (829 words)

  
 Livorno and the Maremma - introduction
The area known as the Maremma begins south of Livorno and forms a coastal plain running to the very southern end of Tuscany.
Livorno (known as Leghorn in English, but not widely used) is Tuscany's second largest city and a very busy port.
There was once a sizeable British expatriate community here, and Livorno's classification as a free port by Medici dukes, with an accompanying liberal constitution, led to an influx of Jews, Greeks, English Catholics and Spanish Muslims.
www.knowital.com /Towns/livorno/html/livornost1.html   (303 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: Livorno
Pisa, Florence, Livorno are all at your disposal.
Luxurious Italian Excursions - Livorno Benvenuto specializes in chauffeured excursions throughout Italy - along the Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, Rome, Florence and Naples.
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 Alè Livorno, tutto sul Livorno Calcio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gli amaranto affrontano il derby con Acerbis in porta e concedono spazio in avanti al talentuoso Palladino, a fargli compagnia in attacco il totem Lucarelli.
Alla ripresa delle ostilità tra i bianconeri Iadaresta sostituisce Guzman, nessun cambio nel Livorno che conferma in avanti il duo Lucarelli - Palladino.
Al 19' c'è da registrare il palo del Livorno: Palladino servito da Paulinho (entrato in campo pochi istanti prima) batte Mirante, ma la palla sbatte sul legno ed esce, comprensibile la reazione di Mazzone che si contorce in panchina, rammaricato per la grande occasione sfumata.
www.alelivorno.it   (898 words)

  
 PLUCKY LIVORNO LEAVE IT LATE : Sporting Life - Football | Italy Serie A News, Fixtures, Results, Match Reports, ...
Despite having Stefano Morrone sent-off after 29 minutes, Livorno had much the better of the chances and the only surprise was that it took them so long to find the winning goal.
But Livorno were fully deserving of the three points after displaying attacking intent from the off with Ibrahima Bakayoko at the heart of everything they did.
The result sees Livorno maintain an unbeaten home record which stretches back to last May, while Reggina have now lost all four of their games on the road as their away form threatens to be their undoing this season.
www.sportinglife.com /football/overseas/italy/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=international_feed/05/10/23/SOCCER_Ita-Livorno_Nightlead.html&TEAMHD=italy   (534 words)

  
 LIVORNO
Nowadays the city is more or less universally known as Livorno, a lively Mediterranean port and sea bathing resort.
It is not difficult to understand why the British merchants, long associated with the city, who first heard the name pronounced in a guttural Tuscan accent, anglicised it to Leghorn.
There is a good local studies library presently housed at the Mascagni Museum, named after Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), the distinguished composer born in Livorno.
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