At the beginning of the 19th century, Livorno ,the city of the Granducato of Tuscany, had more than 50.000 inhabitants.  It was beautyful, expanding dominated by the Habsburg Lorraine and their Grand Duke ruled Florence

Our  port was the fifth port in the Meditteraneo

and even if event of the steamship a bit .It would have revolution the trades that thet rotated around port.

With these ships without sails and train It will be all fast,  we will have to adpat or disappear

Meanwhile, in the city, great works are carried out..

Today we inaugurate, after 13 years of work, the great preserve, the final point of collection of the spring waters of Colognole, the work of the famous architect Pasquale Poccianti

We have the most beautiful acqueduct of Italy!

It’s a wonderful cistern called Cisternone

I was the declaration of free port, free from customs duties and sanitary taxes, and the new walls to give great impulse to the city. It was around 1835,  the years of Leopoldo II

The engineer Alessandro Manetti and Carlo Reishammer  erected the lorenesi walls 

What a wonder! eight kilometers of customs walls with gates and barriers to expand the city

 Great works  were completed along with the Livorno Pisa railway  which  allowed Charlkes Dickens to come  to Italy

A signal of hope arrives also from the much awaited development of the port that, in 1853 , became reality

Citizens, shortly the intense activities for the curved dam 

of the new pier of the port will begin. They will be guided by the French engineer Vittorio Poirel

the works ended in 1860.The cost of the works was impressive: 8 millions Lire of the time

36 million of euro

Beautiful eh? and now look at it, amased, 

my young boy, you don't want to buy do you?

 do you know how much a ship ot that kind cost two million and  four hundred thousand lire more or less.

The last ship costruction at the Mediceo arsenal was the ''Magenta'' commissioned in 1859 by the Tuscan nauy which was delivered in July 17th 1862

We cannot abolish it! New fees will destroy the cargo port. It will be the end for this city. And Livorno must have the province that until now has been denied

The debate went on until 1868. The abolition of the free port  marked the end of Livorno's merchant dominion in the Mediterranean Sea

It wont be the end! The free port is over. We must take a step towards modernity we must concentrate everything on shipbuilding.

Meanwhile, a dispute begins in livorno thath  continued over the years: the abolition of the free port 

The dispute on the free port effectively hid a change of course : the use of iron and steel changed  the naval industry.

ironclads warships with a power never seen in the engines, took control of the seas

In a short time, under the expert guidance of Luigi Orlando, naval engineer  andformer director of the arsenal of Genoa, the "Orlando brothers yard", became a worldwide excellence.

Come on, baby, another day starts!

I am 17 years old I am no longer a child

In Livorno you're always a kid!

It is a golden moment for the city, with a thirty-year expansion

In 1884 the Palace

Hotel was inaugurated

 it’s the most beautiful hotel in the world

it is very expensive

The hotel is located near the Pancaldi seaside resort, born in 1846, now frequented by the Savoy people and for this reason called the "Royal seaside resort"

Let me show you the Olimpia coffee, the most aristocratic place of all resort renowned throughout Italy