Old Synagogue

Lorenzo Riposati (accountant and auditor) had the appreciated idea of commissioning the artist Antonio Morozzi to reproduce the glorious lost synagogue, a complex story and in many ways emblematic of the period of the reconstruction of the city following damage due to one of the many bombings that hit Livorno during the last world war. For Riposati a tribute to the "friendly friends of the Jewish Community of Livorno, of whom I have good memories since the Laras family's attendance".

Here is that today, thanks to this significant and original initiative, we can say that, somehow and even moved by a few tens of metres (the shutter is at a bottom located in via Diaz), the ancient synagogue, the pride of the whole city, has returned to overlooking the place where it was born. The ancient Synagogue of Livorno, built in the seventeenth century and enlarged several times, was considered the most beautiful in Europe and the second, by dimensions, after that of Amsterdam. Devastated by aerial bombardment during the Second World War, it was definitively demolished to make way for the new synagogue, inaugurated in 1962.