  The local and global properties of the Levi-Civita (LC) solutions coupled
with an electromagnetic field are studied and some limits to the vacuum LC
solutions are given. By doing such limits, the physical and geometrical
interpretations of the free parameters involved in the solutions are made
clear. Sources for both the LC vacuum solutions and the LC solutions coupled
with an electromagnetic field are studied, and in particular it is found that
all the LC vacuum solutions with $\sigma \ge 0$ can be produced by
cylindrically symmetric thin shells that satisfy all the energy conditions,
weak, dominant, and strong. When the electromagnetic field is present, the
situation changes dramatically. In the case of a purely magnetic field, all the
solutions with $\sigma \ge 1/\sqrt{8}$ or $\sigma \le - 1/\sqrt{8}$ can be
produced by physically acceptable cylindrical thin shells, while in the case of
a purely electric field, no such shells are found for any value of $\sigma$.
