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Al Port Center of Livorno more than thousand visitors in its first year of life
Gallanti: the port of Livorno is very alive and anticipates in collective imagination
December 16, 2016
The Port Center of Livorno closes 2016 with more than thousand visitors in its first year of life. By the inauguration of December 2015 the center, accommodated in the Mansion of the Captain inside of the Cinquecento Old Fortress, is visited by students, citizens and tourists who have made a true full hand immersion in the history, in she anticipates and in the future of the Leighorn harbour port of call.
The Port Center, the second of that sort in Italy after that of Genoa, is the directed expression of the project Opened Port, started in 2007 from the Harbour Authority of Livorno and which reached by now its tenth edition. With the management of the Old Fortress, in concession to the Harbour Authority from 2013, Open Port has been one of the instruments of which the harbour authority has used in order to approach the port the city: this three thousand year students have been able to know intimately the harbour port of call through completely free guided tours and.
Those of the Port Center - it has emphasized the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti - "are not simple numbers. Those beyond thousand visits are to testify that the port of Livorno is very alive and anticipates in collective imagination. Come Autorità Portuale we have played a not secondary role in the promotion of those soft values that more than every economic given other together gives a sense to ours to be. Our project Open Port is served, in bottom, own to this, to pull down the divisive barriers that usually form between the port and its city".
"Livorno - it has specified mayor Filippo Nogarin - cannot live without its port and, it is a matter of course, the port does not have ragion of being without the city to its shoulders. In order too much time but the roads of these two truth has course parallel without to intersect themselves almost never. The success of the Port Center is a point from which leaving in order to revolutionize, once and for all, this relationship and given the starting signal to a sinergico development of the city and its port".
In occasion of the Native initiative "in Fortress", the Port Center will be opened in extraordinary way friday, saturday and Sunday, from the 19 hours 15 to.
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The Port Center of Livorno closes 2016 with more than thousand visitors in its first year of life. By the inauguration of December 2015 the center, accommodated in the Mansion of the Captain inside of the Cinquecento Old Fortress, is visited by students, citizens and tourists who have made a true full hand immersion in the history, in she anticipates and in the future of the Leighorn harbour port of call.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
