Piazza della Repubblica from the sky....

Yesterday it's been such a sunny Sunday in Florence, so I went out walking with a couple o friends in the city center, during the afternoon. It was quite full of people wondering around, as it's always used to be. We went to Piazza della Repubblica, a square created in the eighteenth century, with the typical architecture of that period, including an big arch. We went to a bar on the last floor of a commercial center, that has an open terrace that leaves a wonderful sight over the square and the building sorrounding... yes it was nice!! ;-)

A Peninsula in the river Arno!

We've just finished celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Flood, but this year the river is quite dry. It seems it hasn't rained a lot recently, and just a small amount of water is flowing from Florence.

Due to this fact, a very starnge phenomenon has happened in the city center: on a side of the river a little peninsula has formed. It started about a couple of months ago and made itself bigger little by little. Now it's quite large... and not so nice: the low levewl of water has shown a lot of garbage abandoned in the river.


I really hope it'll soon disappear, letting water flow again!

A spanish group in Florence

Last saturday I went to Flog, a nice concert hall here in Florence, to see the exibition of Macaco, a spanish group coming from Barcelona. It's been a very good show: I already knew that group, and I liked it very much. The group is very famous in Spain while it's not as much here in Italy. The hall was full of spanish guys living here in Florence for Erasmus or something. I don't know how many italian people were present that night; I don't think they were the majority anyway.


I think that Flog is the best place to see live music in Florence. It's not in the city center but is quite near, and there are always good bands playing, from all over the world. The place was born many years ago as a center for the people working at Officine Galileo, one of the biggest firms in Florence; its name stand for Officine Galileo Workers Foundation (Fondazione Lavoratori Officine Galileo). Nowadays it's open to everybody and is one of the most known places for the people who loves music.

Nicely warm

It's November...

I remember that years ago, at the end of October, the weather was very cold, and we were all waiting for November the 1st for the heating to be officially switched on. Sometimes it was switched on even sooner, because it was too cold.

It seams that thisone is one of the hottest fall of the last years... I hope this lasts! ;)

Florence Flood Celebrations

To celebrate the anniverasry of Florence Flood, the local administration organized some visual installations in several key points of the city center.

A green laser was used over Ponte Vecchio, writing phrases on the bridge walls, and then, thanks to the use of artificially generated smoke, painting a green wave over the Arno, simulating the level of the river in the days of the catastrophe.


In the well-famous Loggia dei Lanzi, in Piazza Signoria, historical images of the days of the flood were showed on the walls, decorating the show with purple lights and suggestive music.

The Florence Flood of 1966

I'm not gonna start this blog the 4th of November by chance. Today is the 40th anniversary of the great flood of Florence, that put my wanderfull city on its knees. I wans't there that day - I'm only 30 - but the echo of such an event is still big today, and the emotion is strong.


Fortunately a lot of people from all over the world arrived here to help us to come back soon to normal life. I would like to thank all the Mud-Angels (Angeli del Fango in italian) on behalf of every citizen of Florence.

Thanks.

Let's go!

Hi everybody, my name is Nick and I live in Florence. I am italian, but I want to create a blog in english to tell the way of life of my wonderfull city to the whole world (or at least it's what I'd like to do...).

Hope you'll accept my english: it's not perfect but I think it's enought to express myseff.

Cheers!!