Mona Lisa as you haven’t seen her before

Street Art

---

May 31st 2018
One of the things we have enjoyed about Florence is finding all the street art by a French-born artist named Clet Abraham, commonly known only as Clet. He hacks street signs in an amusing and imaginative way. The first one I saw was the usual round red sign but in the middle was a picture of a man falling. Strange I thought. Perhaps there’s a building site where men are in danger of falling. The ... read more

Europe » Italy » Tuscany » Florence

---

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more