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Mercato Centrale or the “Coperta"

Mercato delle Vettovaglie

The word “vettovaglie" means provisions for the military - and when they explained this to me everything seemed to fall into place, after all Livorno is a modern day invention which not only served as a commercial port to the Florence of the Medici Family, but also the first line of defense against the ever insistent pirates.


The market is perhaps one of the more interesting architectural structures in Livorno, built in the middle of the XIX century; it fully embraces the style of using iron and glass to create a huge structure - almost as big as two football fields. Inside there are 200 stalls for fish, food and more. More meaning happy hour events, bars and restaurants, which make use of the wealth of local products they have underhand at the market. The market, with its underground warehouse being feed from the Fosso Reale, is as unique as it is beautiful.


Two of my favorite places to eat within the Mercato include Poggetti, with quick meals and buffet happy hours, or the newly opened alle VettoVaglie, run by a group of sommeliers who are having fun presenting good wine, creative dishes in the form of “street & comfort" food and a bit of local color to Livorno.

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