Tuscany
Surprising Venice
coaches en route to the more familiar Tuscanian delights. However, for those with a curiosity about renaissance history, those who wish to visit a less crowded city and those interested in seeing unique canals, add Livorno to your list of places you must visit while in Tuscany.
Bernardo Buontalenti,( Bernardo Delle Girandolea) a highly respected architect, military engineer and artist of the 16th Century, designed the fortifications that stand to this day at the port entrance. The port’ s geographic proximity to Pisa and Florence( over land and by transport on the River Arno) created the need for the port’ s protection.
It was the laws of trade, in the latter part of the 16th Century, that created Livorno’ s nickname of“ Venice of Tuscany”. Ferdinand I di Medici,
Grand Duke of Tuscany, created what was called the Leggi Livornine in 1587. The law created a‘ porto Franco’, or tax free port for goods that moved through the city. This law motivated merchants from across Europe, who sought the advantages of location and cost savings, to establish branches of their businesses in the city.
To help move goods to warehouses and to facilitate ease of transportation, these new companies supported the creation of canals
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