The Livorno Synagogue was built to a design by the architect Angelo Di Castro and completed in 1962 on the site of the 17th-century synagogue, which was partially destroyed during the Second World War. Together with Rome, Trieste and Genoa, it is one of the four great monumental synagogues of the twentieth century in Italy and the only one to have been built after the Second World War.
The church of San Sebastiano was consecrated in 1633 for the Barnabite order. The church was designed by Giovanni Francesco Cantagallina. The last Barnabites left in 1867 and a few years later, in 1874, the church of San Sebastiano became a parish church.
Work on the Church of Saints Peter and Paul began in 1829 and was soon completed in a neo-Renaissance style. A few years later, the church was used to accommodate the patients of the cholera epidemic of 1835. Later, during the Second World War, the church was severely damaged by bombing and had to be restored.
The church of San Paolo in Ripa d'Arno, founded at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries, is a fine example of Pisan Romanesque architecture. Originally belonging to monastic orders, it became a parish church from the 16th century. Damaged during the Second World War, the building was restored between 1949 and 1952.
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