The Naval Academy

The Naval Academy, the Navy Officers training institute, was built in Livorno on 6th November 1881 from merging of Genoa and Naples naval school, inherited by the Italian Unit. This schools unification occurred by the naval Minister, Admiral Benedetto Brin, who asked for the approval of Conte di Cavour, he ordered the creation of a unique school for education of young people who had the will to become Navy Officers in Livorno, the right place for an Academy, because of its geographical position, which is in the middle of the just built up Italian State.
From 1923 to 1926, the Naval Academy hosted the next generation Airforce Academy, waiting for it to find a new place. During the last war in 1943, the Naval Academy had to leave Livorno because of the bombings by the enemies. It had to move to Venezia and then immediately after the Armistice, it moved to Brindisi. On the 5th July 1946 the Naval Academy came back to Livorno unchangeable in her spiritual and cultural heritage, continuing again the never ended training in more than 118 years. The present regular studying class is academic and it follows an original and specific development focused to ensure that the just commissioned officers have an appropriate technical education, an high knowledge of naval history and an extended teorical - practical education in professional field; at the end the young officers follow overall a degree in Political Science (Stato Maggiore - Head Quarter), in Telecommunication Engineering (Armi Navali - Naval Weapons) and in Naval Engineering.
The Navy Sailing sport is an organization of Navy Head Quarters which have to develop and spread between duty personnel. Sailing Sport which educative and marine activity suitable for professional formation. Joined to F.I.V. (Italian Sailing Federation) where it has a permanent councillor participating with own athletes in national and international activity.

The S.V.M.M. is divided into a Management Office and 13 sailing sections, besides sailing Direction Center, placed in several branches of the Navy. The Livorno€™s origins were characterized by an old fishermen community that settled the coast where nowadays there is the dock. The first historical depositions were written in the 11th century, which testify that community existed. Infact, in 1103, the Countess Matilda di Toscana surrendered this village to S.Maria di Pisa. It is the Medici€™s dynasty that transformed the old village into a real big city in the 16th century.
In the 1421 people of Florence purchased Livorno from the Genoese Republic: the Senate allowed exemptions who was settling in the territory and authorized the townhall to write articles of association and to collect taxes. Cosimo I, Medici€™s Duke, between 1527 and 1564, ordered to fortify the area and to build the new dock. Ferdinando I issued some laws that they are called €œLivornine€ which expressed a strong thrust to the economical development of the city, through the permission of privileges and exemptions to those people who choose Livorno as a landing place, so as to allow persecuted races to come in the Western Europe. The Medici€™s dynasty was substituted by the Lorena€™s dynasty. The archduke Francesco II wanted to be on good terms between the dock and the hinterland that placed Livorno€™s dock to the highest ranking in the Mediterranean Sea. Nowadays Livorno has 180 thousands inhabitants and it is the second biggest city of Toscana. Modern, active, always expanding, it bases its economy to the dock activity and to the presence of the big public and private industry. Livorno preserves touring exhibitions through churches and monuments built between the Renaissance and the Baroque.
Their seasides and bathing establishments are overwhelmed and they have made €œthe Etruscan Coast€ as a renowned and confortable place, equipped with several hotel equipments and attractive natural marks. Livorno gave hospitality to famous people such as Fattori, Modigliani, Mascagni, Guerrazzi, and it was a destination for a lot of writers who had taken place in the neighborhood: some of those people were Goldoni, Byron, Shelley, Smollet. Nowadays the city is often remembered to be the Navy Academy site that witnessed the historical connection that joined Livorno to the sea.