I walk “Via della Madonna” (Madonna Street) everyday to work, it is a pedestrian zone, as far as a such thing can exist here: they drive slowly and don't park in the middle. This is one of the oldest street of Livorno and has two and a half churches within few meters: the half one has only the façade, the rest of the building went with the last war.
Madonna is not a very long street, but it crosses a bridge, glances at Town Hall, runs along the canals for a while, skirts the Justice Court and ends toward another major church in Venice (the quarter). Following a bout of secular eagerness, in 1901 it was renamed Giordano Bruno Street, quickly regaining its original, and more suitable, name in 1925.Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian: I soliti ignoti) is a 1958 Italian criminal-comedy film, directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original title translates as “the usual unknown persons”, a journalistic an bureucratic euphemism for “unidentified criminals”. (Wikipedia)
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Nice post, I love the style of the movie advert.
Now I'm on a quest for the DVD version of the film.
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