Torre della Castagna

The story of “balloting”

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Raise your hands who have never heard the term “ballout”, for example between two candidates. There are few who know where it comes: history teaches us. You must know that, before the d... achievement

ANTICA TORRE, first headquarters of the government of Florence

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In the small Piazza San Martino, in front of the Oracle of the Goods, you can find the Castagna Tower, a unique monument of history to have been the first place of ... at the Dante Alighieri era

La Bocca di Ferro

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This old medieval tower was called once, which is located in the San Martino square in front of the house of Dante. In this tower the Priori gathered before it was realized ...

A tower once where administrative agencies were located

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　Dante ･ A tower diagonally opposite Dante's house across Aligieri Street. It is the place where the city's administrative agency was placed until it moved to the Vecchio Palace at the end of the 13th century. The front is a square, but it's not so large, so it was quite difficult to take a picture from top to bottom of the tower.

It's a tower on the south side of Dante's house!

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It stands facing a small square on the south side of Dante's house. It is a small thin tower built in a historic atmosphere where narrow alleys connect!