Thursday, February 5, 2009

Madonna Street

Via della MadonnaI 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, posterBig 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)

2 comments:

Marcel said...

Nice post, I love the style of the movie advert.

Tash said...

Now I'm on a quest for the DVD version of the film.