Estación de tránsito

Piazza Della Repubblica station

Name: Piazza Della Repubblica station
Address: Florence, Tuscany, IT

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Leonardo

July 18, 2021

Piazza della Repubblica is one of the main squares in Florence since Roman times. Today's rectangular aspect with large nineteenth-century buildings is the result of the period of the "restoration" of the city when Firenze was the capital of Italy 1865-71 The imposing Column of Abundance marks the point where the thistle met and the decuman and where there was the ancient Roman forum. so-called "navel of the city" During the Middle Ages this area was very populated and also infamous is where there were many brothels, the Jewish ghetto was located, and it was the place where the city market (trade) took place, full of tabernacles and churches many of which were destroyed. In the sixteenth century the Market became Old for the construction of the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo (Loggia del Porcellino) near the Ponte Vecchio. . The buildings that rose in the new square followed the eclectic fashion of the time. Following this transformation, the square became a sort of "good living room" of the city; Since then, elegant palaces, luxury hotels, department stores and elegant cafés have overlooked it, including the well-known Caffè Le Giubbe Rosse, a meeting and confrontation place for writers and renowned artists. The arcades with the triumphal arch, called the "Arcone" were inspired by the most courteous Renaissance architecture, on the arch there is the inscription "The ancient center of the city from centuries-old squalor to new life returned"