Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
weather, though settling for a table in the elegantly simple, 17th-century, barrel-ceilinged,
brick boat house is hardly a hardship. You can get
cacciucco
here, but the
carbonara di
mare
(seafood and pasta in white sauce) is the family's pride and joy.
Information
Tourist office
(
05 8689 4236;
www.costadeglietruschi.it
; Via Pieroni 18;
8am-5.30pm summer,
shorter hrs winter)
Getting There & Away
BOAT
Regular ferries for Sardinia and Corsica depart from Calata Carrara, beside the Stazione
Marittima; and ferries to Capraia (via Gorgona) use the smaller Porto Mediceo near
Piazza dell'Arsenale. Boats to Spain and Sicliy, plus some Sardinia services, use Porto
Nuovo, 3km north along Via Salvatore Orlando.
Ferry companies running these services include the following:
Corsica Ferries
(
www.corsica-ferries.it
)
Two to seven services per week to Bastia, Corsica
(from €36, four hours) and Golfo Aranci, Sardinia (from €45, six to hours).
Grimaldi Lines
(
www.grimaldi-ferries.com
)
Weekly sailings to Barcelona (€35 to €85, 21 hours)
and Tangiers, Morocco (€80 to €240, 58 hours).
Moby
(
www.moby.it
)
Boats to Bastia, Corsica (from €28, four hours) and Olbia, Sardinia
(€46 to €97, six to 10½ hours).
Toremar
(
www.toremar.it
)
Services year-round to Capraia (€20, 2¾hr).
CAR
The A12 runs past the city and the SS1 connects Livorno with Rome. There are several
car parks near the waterfront.
TRAIN
From the
main train station
(Piazza Dante)
walk westwards (straight ahead) along Viale Car-
ducci, Via de Larderel, then Via Grande into central Piazza Grande, Livorno's main
square. Trains are less frequent at Stazione Marittima, the station for the ports.
Florence
€9, 1½ hours, 16 daily
Pisa
€2.50, 15 minutes, frequent
