A tract of the “Fosso Reale” just before passing below “Piazza della Repubblica”, practically a 220 meter wide bridge. Amidst all the white fiberglass motor boats you can see what seems a refurbished “gozzo a vela”, a wooden boat rigged with a triangular lateen sail.
More or less a century ago, the same kind of boats returning to the “moletto” (jetty) of Antignano after a day of fishing.
The works in progress we saw a couple of months ago are almost completed and a part of the refurbished “Piazza del Municipio” is already open to the public. Always watching, from up there, is our colorful Chimera.
This is where the buses carrying most of the cruise passengers stops, so a revamped square was long overdue. In background the arched loggia of our Chamber of Commerce.
Town Hall building is on the other side of the square and the rest... is a parking lot.
This is one of the two Sea Monsters fountains by Pietro Tacca, the same sculptor of our Four Moors.
These are obviously recent copies of the originals, made after the last war. In fact, a legend says that the Grand Duke Ferdinando II liked so much the fountains made for Livorno, that he had them installed in “Piazza Santissima Annunziata”, in Florence.
“Via Cairoli” toward “Piazza Cavour”, from behind the Cathedral.
An out of season and menacing Santa says: “Buy”.
“Using the zebra crossing you will be cut in half”.
Too many road signs...
“Butcher shop, the pleasure of fresh meat”. In Italian “carne” is both meat and flesh.
We have already seen in “Scali delle Ancore” that a hardware store uses a side window as a gallery for local paintings.
This time the subject is an older version of the “Darsena Vecchia”, while the recent photo is much more crowded with larger and less picturesque boats.
The front door of the “Palazzo Santa Elisabetta” (Saint Elizabeth), in “Via Marradi”, underlined by a set of advertising panels on the other side of the street, in “Piazza Attias”.
