Leghorn Road, NW10

Place Name

One of a small cluster of streets that are named after ports, probably inspired by the local connection to Odessa. Livorno is an Italian port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscan. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn. It was designed as an ideal town in the 16thCentury by the all-powerful Medici family. See also Ancona Road, Odessa Road, Palermo Road, and Spezia Road.

 

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