Montecatini has many well preserved buildings of the Liberty Period, that the city suggests to follow a route beginning from Piazza del Popolo in the way to discover all secret beauties of Montecatini. In Viale Verdi it’s possible to visit the Town Hall ended in the year 1920 by Raffaello Brizzi and Luigi Righetti. Inside we find decorations of Galileo Chini and Luigi Arcangeli. Continuing on this street we find the Cinema Excelsior built in the 1922 by Ugo Giovannozzi, that represents a real evidence of the european Liberty style ( see its iron and glass roofing and the curvilinear front with portico). In the opposite side of this street we find the Tamerici Pavillon, planed in the year 1903 by Giulio Bernardini for the selling of the Tamerici salts and for the shop of the Manufacture " L’arte della Ceramica" founded in the year 1896 by Galileo Chini and decorated with four gres panels by Domenico Trentacoste, representing all phases of the ceramics working. Walking again on this street, we find now the Excelsior watering place, built during the first years of the 1900 by will of the Honourable Mr Pietro Baragiola. It was planed as Cafè-Concertand Casinò, but after a renovation of the 1915 by Bernardini, it was transformed in watering place. The modern structure of this building opened in the year 1968 is close to the park which is 4500 sm wide...

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