View of the 17th-Century Apartment Building from Piazza della Repubblica, LivornoView from the Apartment, Looking Across the Fortezza Nuova to Piazza della Repubblica, LivornoThis apartment is located on the fourth and last floor of a building dating from 1680 which used to lie within Livorno’s old city walls that enclosed the two fortresses. It is directly opposite what is known as the “Fortezza Nuova”, or ‘New Fortress’, and is said to have once been the residence of the officers living inside the fortress. The area in which the apartment is found is part of Livorno’s historic “La Venezia” quarter.