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Florence: the Oltrarno district…
| 2009-11-16 Georges Rouzeau Oltrarno, on the other side of the river, the Florence of the Florentines, survives thanks to a community of craftsmen who are trying to safeguard their ancestral expertise. Take time to explore this district, which is still managing to avoid “museumification”. Potted history of Oltrarno It is oltr’Arno (literally “on the other side of the Arno”) that the popular heart of Florence still beats. Once you have crossed the Ponte Vecchio, you enter another world... that of the last Florentine craftsmen to carry on their trades within the city. They are engravers, sculptors, picture framers, gilders and restorers. |
