In English this would be a not-so-appealing “The Refinery Inn”.
Sliced and fried polenta is called “scagliozzi” here.
“Piazza della Repubblica”, a lion head and some fishes on a pillar.
A cart used by a florist as display in “Via Magenta”.
“Via Ernesto Rossi”: “Sweetheart, I love you”, in Romanian.
With the end of the cruise season and the lower passenger traffic, the large ferries are back in the “Porto Mediceo”. The 212 meter “Mega Express Three” is the younger of the lot: she was launched in South Korea in 2001.
The 170 meter “Mega Express Five” saw her first water in Japan in 1993, while the 153 meter “Moby Corse”, a Dane by birth, has been around since 1978.
We have already seen something of the decay of this building and today we'll see something more. Next Friday, December 10th, our friend Stefano, the creator of the Facebook group on the church, will hold a lecture about this building. Above, you can see a detail of the balustrade around the pulpit and the debris-covered floor.
The old benches, more debris and a fallen beam.
A pile of wooden parts fallen from the ceiling, heavily covered with pigeongs guano.
This room, on the left side of the church, was something like a vestry and the roof has recently caved in.
A lot of people like to hide themselves behind the word “culture”, a few of them may be right, most of them aren't.
Not as fancy as the shutters of “Via di Salviano”, but essential...
You can have no doubts about what they are selling here.
An used books kiosk that sell mostly romance novels.
In a recent study, commissioned by the European Union, the port of Livorno was excluded from the top forty ports in Europe.
A local newspaper, the “Corriere di Livorno”, has closed for good. Started in September 2007, it never had a sizable share of readers.
A referendum opposing the location of the new hospital took place last Sunday, but only a 20% of the voters showed up. The quorum was not met, so the new hospital will be built near Montenero.
Two clocks of the water tower of the “Spedali Riuniti”.
A sundial near the “Chiesa della Santissima Trinità ” (Church of the Most Holy Trinity) in “Borgo dei Cappuccini”.
