Livorno is a pleasant Tuscan town overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. Its weather, the green hills surrounding it and above all its coastal line, which offers the possibility of beautiful walks and summer swims, makes it particularly beautiful all the year. Livorno's history is brief: it was only from the 16th century that it began to assume the dimension of a true city, at the same period in which Florence and the Medici were at the height of their splendour. Unfortunately, Livorno risked being completely eliminated by the bombs during the Second World War: a truly irreparable loss if you think that Livorno should have been, at least in the Urban Development Program of the architect Bernardo Buontalenti, "the ideal city". This 'ideal city', has not been completely lost however; it can be partly traced, and even travelled, by taking a boat along the typical canals which link the port to the rest of the city.