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• Finding the Mona Lisa

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  Could one ever believe a Pakistani kebab vendor recounting he has the Mona Lisa at his feet?! Fortunately, everything changes and everything cohabits: the Florence of the Florentines with the Florence of immigrants, the beautiful city of tourists with the decadent Ursula district. Thus, if everything changes and cohabits, it is not too surprising the fact [...]

  

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  Tags: crypt of the Saint Ursula complex, everything changes and cohabits, Finding the Mona Lisa, Florence, Florentines, Louvre in Paris, most famous painting in the world, Ursula district
  
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• The rhythm of history

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  Umberto remembers with his eyes closed. Hands clasped over her knees as if he was trying to stop the flickering leg, eyelids flapping as imperceptibly following the rhythm of history: the history of the Jewish community of Florence. If it were not for the doorbell or the telephone of the Jewish Cultural Center Secretariat in Via Farini, his [...]

  

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  Tags: history of the Jewish community, Jewish community of Florence, Jewish Cultural Center, rhythm of history, Via Farini in Florence
  
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• The soul of Florence

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  If  Florence still has a soul after the invasion of mass tourism and after the cars filling its streets, perhaps this soul lies into the old market of  San Lorenzo. The San Lorenzo district is a “noble” neightborhood bordered on the one side by the busy Via Nazionale, while on the other side by the Basilica of [...]

  

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  Tags: Basilica of the Saint, Italy, market of San Lorenzo, Medici family, San Lorenzo district, The soul of Florence, Via Nazionale
  
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• Jewish Community in Florence

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  Unlike in other Italian cities, the Jewish Community in Florence has spaced a lot within the urban texture. It particularly happened when Florence was the new capital of the young Italian state: in its modest Medieval essence, it turned down entire neighborhoods in order to create wide squares that could measure up to the presence of the [...]

  

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  Tags: Italian sisters, Italy, Jewish Community in Florence, modest Medieval essence, Piedmont Royal family, urban texture, wide squares
  
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• A rushing tourist

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  Before reaching the heart of the Central Market in Florence, we enter a sort of ‘circle of hell’: made up of ‘desks’ gathered together and almost overtopping themselves. They are covered by commodities and souvenirs for a rushing tourist who might have to visit all of Italy in only three days – juggling between Murano glasses, Venetian [...]

  

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  Tags: a rushing tourist, Central Market in Florence, church domes, Florentine straw hats, Italy, Murano glasses, Neapolitan cribs, silk scarves, Venetian masks, visit all of Italy
  
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• Unknow to most people

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  At n. 12  Via del Proconsolo in Florence, a surprise is waitng for me: the Museum of Natural History, unknow to most people. It is of particular interest to me because it houses objects fromTibetan culture but it is not  open to the public yet. Clara Marchese, Italy

  

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  Tags: Italy, Museum of Natural History, objects fromTibetan culture, unknow to most people, Via del Proconsolo in Florence
  
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• The intriguing charm of investigative research

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  Chasing the intriguing charm of  investigative research, a team of professionals, historians, scientists and engineers are looking for the remains of Mona Lisa Gherardini, a Florentine noblewoman, who many experts believe was the model of the famous Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait. Coming out of the ‘skeleton’ of the old convent, caught between past and future, a curious feeling has [...]

  

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  Tags: Florentine histoic centre, Florentine noblewoman, investigative research, Leonardo da Vinc, Mona Lisa Gherardini, multiethnic stories
  
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