Message text Around 1600 there was the growth of the city and harbour due to a series of laws ("Leggi livornine") destined to attract peoples from all Europe and near east in an unhealthy place declared free and safe port:
http://www.comune.livorno.it/arte_cultura/architettura_in_citta/luoghi_della_memoria/luoghi_della_memoira.htm ...only in italian, here a little babel fish traduction:
<The "Leggi livornine" of 1591 and 1593, emanated from Ferdinand I Medici (ruler family of Florence and Tuscany), made of Livorno a shelter sure for communities forced to abandon own country for racial, religious and political persecutions. Growth therefore the "Nazioni": Jewish, Greek, English, Dutch-german, French, siryan-maronite, Armenian, muslim, valdese, that remarkable demographic expansion determined one economic and cultural increase of the city.>
A little melting pot, isnt it? 
look at
http://www.comune.livorno.it/guida_livorno/guida_livorno.htm
english and italian language guides....
And now STOP with Livorno!!!!
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