OLD AND NEW IN FLORENCE
CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS
Florence, Italy, is one of those historic cities of the ■world that are torn between the desire to become modern and the desire to preserve the landmarks of mediaeval greatness. It wishes to become modernised without giving up the memories of the days of Dante and Boccaccio. Since the World War large sums have been spent on civic improvements. These include the beginning of an aqueduct to double the water supply, and new street mains for distribution of the water thus brought in. A “victorv bridge” is to lie built. And a modern lighting system will serve to make still more remote the davs when poets, artists, statesmen and nobles found their way about the narrow streets by night with the aid ot lanterns. *
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 9
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131OLD AND NEW IN FLORENCE Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 9
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