Theme Day: Entry

Our Mercato Centrale has several doors at street level and two ramps on the sides that descend into its underground storerooms. Another way to access the storage area is a gate at water level on the canal.

Only tourists on some boat tours now use this entrance, when they make a stop to visit the building.

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See also: Mercato Centrale
Search labels: Mercato Centrale

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Ready for Winter

An effort to protect a bicycle from the rain, in the courtyard of the Benci elementary school.

Search labels: bicycle art
External links: Bicycle Art

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The Castle of Livorno

The front door of the former Liceo Niccolini Guerrazzi: the castle is part of the coat of arms of Livorno.

See also: Liceo Niccolini Guerrazzi - Coat of Arms - Mural Crown

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Moby Aki & Mega Express Two

The “Mega Express Two” and “Moby Aki” ferries in port.

You have already seen these ferries, but this time there is something more in the pictures: the heavy rain.

See also: Mega Express Two - Moby Aki
Search labels: Moby - ferry

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The Magpie

A magpie on the roof of the Mercato Centrale. Sorry for the quality, but this was a very distant shot.

See also: Mercato Centrale - Panorama del Mercato

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Perla

A stolperstein in Via Dario Cassuto, dedicated to Perla Beniacar.

She was born in Livorno on 19 June 1935, the daughter of Moise Beniacar and Estrea Levi, a family that had recently arrived in town from Smirne, Turkey. Perla, which means pearl, was also the name of her paternal grandmother. She had three siblings: Matilde, Bulissa Luisa and Giacobbe Giacomo.
They were all arrested on 21 January 1944 in Borgo a Buggiano (Pistoia) and deported to Auschwitz, where Perla died on 26 February 1944. The only member of her family who survived the Shoah was her sister Matilde.

See also: Stolpersteine - Not Even One Year - Isacco Bayona - Dina and Dino
External links: Stolperstein - (Wikipedia) - Perla Beniacar (The names of the Italian Shoah)

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More Troops

I take this opportunity to thank all the slobs that forced me to watermark these old postcards.

Mercato Centrale, another view (with passing troops) from Scali degli Olandesi, 1914

Mercato Centrale, almost the same view from Scali degli Olandesi, April 2013

(Postcard digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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See also: Mercato Centrale - Passing Troops

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