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296  CENTR AL IT AL Y

Street-by-Street: Around Piazza
della Repubblica

Underlying the street plan of modern
Florence is the far older pattern of V I A D E L C A M P I D O G L I O
the ancient Roman city. Nowhere is
this more evident than in the grid of VIA DÉ BRUNELLESCHI
narrow streets around Piazza della
Repubblica, site of the old Roman V I A D É V E C C H E T T I
forum. This pivotal square housed V I A D É P E S C I O N I
the city’s main food market and the PIAZZA DELLA
Jewish ghetto until the 1860s, when
redevelopment tidied up the area V I A D E G L I S T R O Z Z I REPUBBLICA
and added the triumphal arch in
today’s café-filled square. C A L I M A L A

ANSELMI
PIAZZA
V I A D É S A S
DEGLI
STROZZI VIA DEGLI S E T T I P E L L I C C E R I A
V I A D É T O R N A B U O N I

Santa Trìnita has frescoes V I A M O N A L D A D A V A N Z AT I P I A Z Z A D É
by Ghirlandaio on the Life of
St Francis (1486), depicting VIA PORTA ROSSA C H S O D E L L E M I S U R E
events that took place in this
area. Here, a child is revived VIA PARIONE
after falling from the Palazzo
Spini-Ferroni.
PIAZZA DI
V.D FIORDALISO CHSO CORNINO
Palazzo Spini-Ferroni S.TRINITA VIA DELLE TERME

BORGO SS. APOSTOLI

LUNGARNO DEGLI ACCIAIUOLI
u Palazzo Strozzi
This monumental palazzo
dominates the square.
Santi Apostoli
Ponte Santa Trìnita was built in was reputedly
wood in 1290 and then rebuilt by founded by
Ammannati in 1567 to celebrate Charlemagne.
the defeat of Siena.
Key
y Palazzo Davanzati
Suggested route Frescoes with exotic birds
decorate the Sala dei
Pappagalli, which was once
0 metres 200
the dining room of this
0 yards 200 14th-century palazzo.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp569–73 and pp590–96

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Date 14th November 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm