Aprilia Sportcity One

An Aprilia Sportcity One of the “Polizia Municipale” (Municipal Police) parked outside the Town Hall.

External links: Municipal police (Wikipedia)

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Drogheria

A vintage grocery store sign in “Via Garibaldi”. “Generi di Monopolio” means that this was an authorized seller of State monopoly merchandise. At the time this category included table salt and matches.The strange sign of the “Boutique dei fiori” (Flowers Boutique) in “Via Magenta”.The colorful sign of “Paninoland”, an eclectic eatery in “Via Bosi”.

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Pavements

The pavement under the porticoes of “Via Pieroni” is being re-layed in a quite complicated way, called “Palladiana” (Palladian flooring).This technique consists in composing large surfaces of contiguous flooring out of thousands of all differently shaped smaller pieces of marble.

See also: Porticoes

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Ulysses

From the funnel of the “Moby Corse”, Tweety is probably wondering at the unusual black hull of the 60-meter superyacht “Ulysses”.The same vessel inside the “Darsena Nuova” (New Harbor) just after the launch at the Benetti shipyard in the summer 2010.

See also: I Dynasty - Superyachts - I Dynasty, in Norway - Giorgio Armani's Yacht - Imagination & Illusion - Prince Abdulaziz - Bistango & Reborn - Octopus - Bistango

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Sambuca and China

Miniature bottles of “Sambuca Extra Molinari” and “Elisir China Gambacciani” on display in the window of an “enoteca” in “Via Cambini”.

External links: Sambuca - Amaro - Cinchona - Enoteca (Wikipedia)

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Dandelion in the Shadow

A dandelion clock in “Piazza del Pamiglione”.

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Liceo Niccolini Guerrazzi

In a vintage postcard, the building that once housed the Giovanni Battista Niccolini gymnasium and the Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi liceo classico, after 1952 liceo classico Niccolini Guerrazzi.Today the slightly restructured building is part the “Niccolini-Palli” secondary instruction institute. At the end of the street, in both images, we can see the side of the “Teatro Goldoni” entrance portico.

(Vintage postcard digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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