Cavour | Livorno | Tuscany | Italy

Cavour | Livorno | Tuscany | Italy
Piazza Cavour is a square in Livorno built in the first half of the 19th century along the Fosso Reale, in the area of ​​the disappeared Casone bastion. Here two important straight road axes converge, connecting Piazza Grande to Piazza Attias: via Cairoli and via Ricasoli.
The area where the square was originally built was the southern bastion of the fortified city designed by Bernardo Buontalenti. The defensive system was completely surrounded by a moat that followed a pentagonal shape, whose vertices were placed in correspondence with the bastions themselves.
In 1827, the sale of the land on which the ancient fortifications stood was authorized, in the stretch between the church of San Benedetto and Borgo Cappuccini; Luigi de Cambray Digny was entrusted with the task of designing a connection between the Buontalenti city and the new suburbs outside the Fosso Reale, which were given the name of "Città Leopolda".
The final layout of the square, however, dates back to some important interventions promoted between the thirties and the seventies of the nineteenth century. In fact, in 1836, the Porta del Casone was demolished less than ten years after its construction due to the expansion of the Livorno customs wall, which made the presence of the customs barrier along the Fosso Reale superfluous.
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