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The principal harbour and third town of the Toscana (with 162.321 inhabitants), Livorno is a variegated town both seen by the point cultural and social. Cross-breed of people and races, Livorno distinguishes also for the of Naval Academy and for the presence of Academy of music (the "Mascagni"). About what today constitutes the territory of the actually province of Livorno not exist in the remotest ages exclusion the Hills of Livorno, the Calvi Mount and the cape of Piombino; all the rest was an immense marine coast. Around the 1000, Livorno was only a village on the sea (called Liburna) protect from the mastio of Matilde. Pisa inserted it in the defensive system of its harbour then was made over to Genoa, in 1405, and, in 1421, sold it to Florence for 100,000 fiorini. It was Cosimo to transform it military takeover in ideal city destined to develop itself with the expansion of the commerce: in this period was constructed the Mediceo Harbour, the Fortress protect the Darsena del Pamiglione, the Castle and the beginning of the great integral reclamation. Livorno officially was born in 28 March 1577 with puts down it of the first stone of the bastion of S.Francesco, one of the five concerns who planned pentagonal city outline projected by Buontalenti. Then the inhabitants were little thousand and the increment derived from the guarantees of tax exemptions, freedoms of residence and immunities that produced social various woven: communities of Greeks, Armenians arrived, Israelites, English, Dutch. In the ' 600 started the construction of the quarter colled New Venice. With the annexation to the Italian Kindom (1860) Livorno it lost privilege of the free port, acquiring the function of great industrial center. In our century Livorno was endured dramatic destructions during the last world war conflict, finding itself with 82% of the historical center destroyed
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