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The "Nations" of Livorno
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The "Nations" of Livorno

Find out what they were and how they worked.

The Livorno laws, together with the establishment of the free port and the port's neutrality, brought several foreign merchants to the city: Greeks, French, Dutch-Germans, Armenians, English, Jews and others. 

Each of these vital communities brought their traditions, cultures and wisdom: in short, the Medici’s ideal city born from nothing became the most cosmopolitan, lively and multi-religious port in the Mediterranean. A model of tolerance that fully returned its fruits, as in a few short years, Livorno became the powerful trading centre that the Medici wanted. 

These communities were known as “Nations”. Each of them had their own Consul, a representative who allowed the city to be governed: a unique reality of its kind in Europe, based on the common interest in trade, an extraordinary opening. The “Nations” were communities of fully free merchants, who coexisted in peace, with a skilful balance. Each of them had their own places of worship, which coexisted nearby to each other in total harmony: there was never, almost unheard of in Europe, a ghetto where the Jewish community lived. 

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  • The house where he was born
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    • Eugenia Garsin
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  • Via della Madonna and multicultural Livorno
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    • The Church of the Madonna
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    • The "Nations" of Livorno
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    • What to visit today: the new Synagogue
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  • The Modigliani business: documents in the Chamber of Commerce’s historical archive.
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    • The Modigliani family in politics: his brother Giuseppe Emanuele
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    • The trading of peel
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  • Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum in Livorno
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    • Guglielmo Micheli: Modigliani’s Maestro
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    • The port of Livorno
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    • The portrait of Aristide
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    • Central Market Atelier Modigliani
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    • Fosso reale - Piazza della Repubblica
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  • City Museum (Modigliani Exhibition) - Piazza del Luogo Pio
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