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Villa Corridi, a peaceful haven in Livorno
The beautiful tall pines in Villa Corridi, LivornoVilla Corridi is another of Livorno's green areas, out of town on the way to Collinaia. It centres around an old mansion that used to belong to the Corridi family in the mid-19th century and which overlooked the family's extensive farmland all around. When the family died out, the building was turned into a sanatorium and the gardens were restored in the English and Italian styles. Nowadays the villa is a primary school.
Villa Fabbricotti, Livorno's biggest park
The neo-classical Villa FabbricottiVilla Fabbricotti is Livorno's largest and most beautiful park. It is a popular afternoon meeting place for families and locals in general. Standing in the centre is the 18th-century mansion house, modified over the centuries and remodelled in the neo-classical style in 1881 by Vincenzo Micheli following its purchase by Bernardo Fabbricotti in 1871. Before that the house had belonged to the British merchant Thomas Lloyd.
Villa Mimbelli, art gallery and children's play centre
Mums congregate around the Ludoteca in Villa Mimbelli park, LivornoVilla Mimbelli is famous for housing Livorno's most important collection of art works - the Museo Fattori -, but the grounds around the villa form a very green public park which also contains a ludoteca, or children's indoor play centre (membership needed). The park is not far from the sea, in the San Jacopo district. It is open from 8am to dusk every day.

