Piazza Magenta

It should be “Piazza della Vittoria” (Victory Square), but they keep calling this square with its old name: “Piazza Magenta”.
Some maintenance works are already started and were much needed: on the left you can see the sorry state of a path last Sunday, on the right how it was three days after.

See also: Fallen - Santa Maria del Soccorso - Piazza della Vittoria - Winged Victory

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Four Palms

After few months of works, the other half of Piazza del Municipio is taking shape: here they were transplanting four huge palm trees. These photos were taken in mid September, the square is now complete and we will see it soon.
I keep missing the fascination of our city with this kind of trees, already present in the part of the square refurbished a few years ago.

Work in Progress - The Other Half

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Town Hall - Palazzo Granducale - Piazza del Municipio - Municipal Building - Town Hall Facade

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The Other Half

Part of the square was refurbished five years ago, now is the other half of Piazza del Municipio which is changing face. This area, mostly a parking lot between Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall) and Palazzo Granducale, will become a “pedestrian zone” with some green, palm trees, and a lot of speeding bicycles.

We are usually wary of new works: in fact they already stopped for a month because the planning was wrong...

See also: Work in Progress - Town Hall - Palazzo Granducale - Piazza del Municipio - Municipal Building - Town Hall Facade

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Theme Day: People at Work

At work for the extension of the Elba pier: building a strip of land in the middle of the water.

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See also: A Longer Elba Pier

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Ready for the Facade

The new scaffolding now covers almost all the facade of the Dutch church.

See also: Dutch church - A Good Start - Works Have Started - The New Scaffolding
External links: Temple of the Dutch German Congregation (Wikipedia)
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The New Scaffolding

It is good to see that a new scaffolding is being erected on the facade of the Dutch church. With the still scarce funds now available they will be able to stop the decay, preserving the building from further damage and at least partially securing it.

See also: Dutch church - A Good Start - Works Have Started
External links: Temple of the Dutch German Congregation (Wikipedia)
Search labels: Dutch church

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Works Have Started

Restoration works have started at the Dutch church. The area has been cleaned up from weeds and the old rusty scaffolding has been removed: quite a difference from a month ago.

See also: Dutch church - A Good Start - Theme Day: Rust and Ruins
External links: Temple of the Dutch German Congregation (Wikipedia)
Search labels: Dutch church

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A New Piazza Grande?

Half of Piazza Grande has been fenced off for works, but don't hold your breath for the outcome...

See also: Duomo di Livorno - 270 Years After - After the Snow - Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II

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Cinema Moderno

Works for the demolition of another former movie theater have recently bugun. The “Moderno” will soon have a new life as a parking, which is not much, but always better than what it was recently left of it.

See also: A Hole in the Roof - Cinema Odeon - La Gran Guardia

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Theme Day: Under Construction

Still at work for the final tract of the new canal.This last bend will connect the new dig to the old canal.

Search labels: new canal
See also: An Useless Dig - Canale dei Navicelli - Viale Caprera - Micropoles - New Venice - A New Canal - Crash - The Dig - Building the Canal - Venice's Canal - The Old “Cantina” - Along the New Canal - The Bomb - The Buried Bomb - The Wall - Modulblock

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Work in Progress

Some kind of works are going on in “Piazza del Municipio” (Town Hall square), where an excavator is resting proudly on a mound of earth. On the white building you can see my Everyday Chimera.In a corner, a smaller excavator is looking up at the bigger one...

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An Useless Dig

You won't believe this. Yesterday you have read how long time ago “Piazza della Repubblica” was built covering an historic canal. Today I'm trying to explain you how a perfectly good square would be dug up to reopen a scarcely historic and useless canal.Some of you will probably recognize the square as the “Luogo Pio”. The canal will cut in half this place and will be crossed by a road bridge and two footbridges.A short tract of the canal has been dug few years ago and is now nothing more than a trash collector, dirty and without any charm.This photo was taken from the gray bridge you can see in the middle of the third image, at the other end of the projected canal. Imagine a straight dig in the middle, few meters wide, and you could see the impact of the works. Local papers say that the cost would be at least 3 million euro: our wiser forefathers must be scratching their heads...

Search labels: new canal
See also: Canale dei Navicelli - Viale Caprera - Micropoles - New Venice - A New Canal - Crash - The Dig - Building the Canal - Venice's Canal - The Old “Cantina” - Along the New Canal - Under Construction - The Bomb - The Buried Bomb - The Wall - Modulblock

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Cherry Pickers

The correct term probably is “aerial work platform”, but I think these boom lifts are usually called cherry pickers.This one is working on the roof of a seven-storey building facing the “Fosso Reale”, whose high walls add a few meters and a bit more thrill to the job.This other guy is working quite relaxed just over the street lights. My one and only thought when I see one of these devices is: what I would catch with my camera from up there...

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Where is Trillian?

Trillian has not gone away, she is just studying hard to research her thesis for a master level degree in law. I hope she will be back in time, after a summer of study...

Surfing & Working

Under the eyes of Tweety, Taz, Bugs Bunny and Duffy Duck, part of the “Porto Mediceo” is slowly changing in a marina as new floating piers for leisure boats are placed on the south side of the harbour.In one of our first posts we showed this boat, calling it a cartoon boat for its funny look. Now we can see that this is a serious boat: it is used by the divers anchoring the new piers with underwater chains.Two weeks later the new pier has already some boats, while the electricians are still working on the power pedestals.

Search labels: Moby - ferry

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