The aquarium's numbers

indoor surface area 3120 sq. m:

• - 2310 sq. m expansion
• - 310 sq. m outbuilding

• - 1000 sq. m of laboratories and service rooms
• - 250 sq. m for bar and bookshop

Vasche e percorsi:

• - 700 sq. m of linear itinerary
• - 21 tanks with possibility of expansion

An aquarium is made up of tanks, fish and water. The Leghorn aquarium is also made up of a city and its moods. This is a feature that sets it apart from the other aquariums on the Peninsula.
Because Leghorn is not a city on the sea but a city of the sea, where the sea is more than just nature, recreation, tourism, work and employment: it is also an extension of all of the city's senses. And the Aquarium is one of these senses.
Named after the great naturalist Diacinto Cestoni, it was inaugurated in 1937 and completely renovated in 2003/2004.
The City Administration seeks a business partner to manage it, who is capable of turning it into a productive business and major attraction for national and international tourism.
The Aquarium faces the seaside in a lovely spot, strategically located within the sea port area, the city's new center of development.

The Cibm (www.cibm.it)

Since 1968 the Aquarium has housed one of Europe's most important staffs of marine biologists: the Inter-university Center of Marine Biology (CIBM), established by the City of Leghorn and the Universities of Bologna, Florence, Modena, Siena, Pisa and Turin.
The CIBM conducts its own scientific activities on the reproductive aspects of various species, on fishing, and the protection and management of marine reserves and the marine environment