Acquario di Livorno

This is not a Supermax by the sea, but the new “Diacinto Cestoni” Municipal Aquarium. Our first sea aquarium opened in the 1930s, but it was soon destroyed by the war. Rebuilt in the 1960s, it was brought to an inglorious end in the 1990s by the sudden death of all the fishes.After almost ten years of works, an opening ceremony took place last July, in an obviously unfinished structure with several empty tanks. Some more fishes and a few sharks have arrived since then.This still unfinished and already rusty wonder is now open to the general public only during weekends. The price of the ticket has dropped from 15 to 12 Euro, but almost everybody can easily get the reduced rate of 10 Euro.

See also: Acquario di Livorno (Official Site, in Italian)

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Saint Sylvester

Sometimes Trillian carries her camera on our walks and use it: this is a view of the “Fanale dei Pisani” from the “Terrazza Mascagni”.Some clouds reflected in a pool of the deserted “Bagni Pancaldi”, one of our oldest and most popular seaside resorts.

Search labels: Terrazza Mascagni
See also: Fanale dei Pisani - Terrazza Mascagni - Tiles - Balustrades - Whitecaps - At the “Terrazza” - Theme Day: Postcard-worthy - Beyond the Balustrade

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Chinese Fishes

The last news of 2010:

“Chinese fishes sold as Italian, heavy fines on fishmonger's shops”

“84-year-old lady tobacconist beats robber with a stick”

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Theme Day: Best of 2010

From a past Theme Day, one of my favorite images of the last year: the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi by the sculptor Augusto Rivalta.I may like this photo because it somewhat reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, the “Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich.

See also: Garibaldi

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Happy New Year to Everyone!

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Attias

It takes only a minute to walk from “Piazza Attias” ...... to “Santa Maria del Soccorso”, in “Piazza della Vittoria”.But you have to pass near this ...

See also: Piazza Attias - Santa Maria del Soccorso - Ugly Corner

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Landmarks

The “Canale dei Francesi” (Frenchmen's Canal) links the Old to the New Harbor. On a pier, used by fishermen, we can find a compass rose, perfectly aligned with the geographic north.I saw this mark inside the “Porto Mediceo”: it says “caposaldo di livellazione” (geodetic control mark) of the “Rete Mareografica Nazionale” (National Tide Gauge Network).

See also: Torre del Marzocco - Tower of the Winds - Strange Clock

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Cisternone

We have already seen this strange building, called “Cisternone” (Big Cistern), in Half-Dome Fad.The half-dome or “semicupola” is the main characteristic of the “Cisternone” and it is considered one of the projects nearer to the dreams of the visionary French architects Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux.The “House of supervisors of the source of the Loue” was a project for the ideal city of Chaux, published in 1804 by Ledoux.The Hôtel Guimard, often called Terpsichore temple, was built in Paris from 1770 to 1773, on a project of the same Ledoux.

See also: Half-Dome Fad - Cisternino di città
External links: Gli architetti rivoluzionari (Politecnico di Bari, in Italian)

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