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Set along the coastline of the
Ligurian Sea, Leghorn is one of the most important Italian
harbours of call, both tourist and commercial. Industrial
centre of nationwide relevance, it is usually considered, among
the Tuscan cities, the youngest one, although in its territory
exist historical remains of remote eras survived the massive
bombings during the Second World War.
The city, which has developed since the end of the Sixteenth
Century by the will of the Medici, is famous for being the birthplace
of prestigious Italian personalities, like Amedeo Modigliani
(painter and sculptor), Pietro Mascagni (composer), and Carlo
Azeglio Ciampi (former President of the Republic of Italy).
In the past, up to the early twentieth century, Leghorn was
also a tourist destination of international relevance for the
presence of important bathing establishments and spas, which
gained for the city the appellative of “Montecatini (well
known Italian spa town) by the sea”. [2] Leghorn, which
at the end of the nineteenth century had about 100,000 inhabitants
and was the eleventh city of Italy and the second in Tuscany
by population [3], in recent decades has suffered a significant
decrease in the number of inhabitants, so that today it is the
third city of Tuscany, after Florence and Prato.
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