The Large Volume Detector (LVD), located in the hall A of the LNGS, is a neutrino observatory mainly designed to study low energy neutrinos from gravitational stellar collapses. It is in operation since 1992, under different larger configurations. The final upgrade took place in 2001, when LVD became fully operational, with an active mass M=1000 t. LVD consists of an array of 840 scintillator counters, interleaved by streamer tubes, and arranged in a compact and modular geometry.?