Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy.
Ferdinando II de' Medici considered, in 1629, the opportunity to enlarge the town, on project by Giovanni Battista Santi, toward north in an area included amongFortezza VecchiaandFortezza Nuova, in order to give an adequate space to the maritime and commercial activities. There was the need to...