From Wikitravel

Livorno is in Tuscany.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By train 2.3 By car 2.4 By bus 2.5 By boat 3 Get around 4 See 5 Do 6 Learn 7 Work 8 Buy 9 Eat 9.1 Budget 9.2 Mid-range 9.3 Splurge 10 Drink 11 Sleep 11.1 Budget 11.2 Mid-range 11.3 Splurge 12 Contact 13 Stay safe 14 Cope 15 Get out

Understand

Livorno is on the Tyrrhenian sea and is the second biggest port in Italy.

Get in

By plane

Pisa airport (code: PSA) Galileo Galilei.

By train

Main train station is Livorno Centrale. Take bus number 1 to go to town center and then to the port in about 20 minutes.

By car

Autostrada A12, uscita Livorno; for maps and tolls see http://www.autostrade.it/ (no pages in English as per 14 November 2004).

By bus

From Pisa, Piombino, Florence and other cities.

By boat

You can depart from Genoa, Civitavecchia, Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica.

Get around

Bus number 1 is a shuttle from train station to the port and vice-versa. Ticket for one hour of travel is 0,85 Euros, daily ticket is 3,20 Euros. See http://www.atl.livorno.it/tiposerv.html for a map.

See

• Quattro Mori
• Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori http://www.comune.livorno.it/arte_cultura/
• Acquario Comunale "D. Cestoni." http://www.comune.livorno.it/arte_cultura/acquario_comunale/acquario_comunale.htm
• Tuscan islands Parco dell'Arcipelago Toscano
• other museums http://www.comune.livorno.it/arte_cultura/musei/musei.htm
• Funicolare di Montenero one of the few cable railways still in service (another one is in Montecatini Terme near Pistoia.

Do

Learn

Work

Buy

Eat

Cacciucco - fish stew

Budget

Mid-range

• Trattoria Sottomarino, Via dei Terrazzini 48/50 - ph. +39 0586 887025 - Close to Piazza della Repubblica and Fortezza Nuova (Venezia District). Fish cuisine, don't miss the gorgeous cacciucco - Closed on MO and TU.

Splurge

Drink

"Ponce alla livornese" is optimal to finish a meal (warm drink with coffee and rum).

Sleep

Budget

Mid-range

Splurge

Contact

Stay safe

Cope

Get out

Livorno is a good starting point and base for a tour of Tuscany. You can reach Pisa in half an hour, Lucca and Florence in about an hour. In a day you can easily tour Chianti-side going to Monteriggioni, San Giminiano, Siena and Volterra and be back for dinner.

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