Piazza della Signoria
Piazza della Signoria. In the centre, flanked by the Neptune Fountain and Equestrian statue of Cosimo I, is the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, built in 1871.
The Piazza, della Signoria, with the Palazzo Vecchio and the Loggia dei Lanzi, once the forum of the republic, and the scene of its popular assemblies and tumults, its festivals and executions, is still an important centre of business and pleasure. ... On the W. side of the piazza rises the Palazzo Fenzi, built by Landi (1871) in the early-Florentine style, which has been adopted in many of the newer edifices.--Baedeker 1906.
Historic Centre of Florence. UNESCO World Heritage. Inscribed in 1982.
Indeed, the Florence Corri La Vita running event.took place in the Piazza while we were there.
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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 
