Tomorrow in Livorno, in the Sala Ferretti of the Old Fortress, will hold a conference dedicated to the history of the port of Livorno, with a focus on architecture, commerce and politics in the period between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. The initiative promoted by the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea in collaboration with the Livorno Association of History, Letters and Arts, is part of the celebrations of the Italian Port Days, the national exhibition developed by the Association of Italian Ports (Assoporti) and the intensification of relations between ports and territories and surrounding communities.

The conference will open at 5.00 p.m. with the greetings of the President of the Livorno Association of History, Letters and Arts, Marcello Murziani, and the promotion manager of the AdSP, Claudio Capuano. This will be followed by speeches by Maurizio Bettini ("The port of Livorno in the 1900s. Trafficking and Structural Transformations"), Giulio Talini ("Reforming the free port? Crisis, projects and development in eighteenth-century Livorno"); Denise Ulivieri and Olimpia Vaccari (on the fortification evolution of the waterfront between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries); Maurizio Vernassa ("Livorno and the Black Sea in the first half of the nineteenth century: links political and commercial").