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Perseus holding the head of Medusa
One of the most famous statue in the world
The statue has recently been restored.
The sculpture itself is original,
while the pedestal has been replaced and is a replica.
The four small bronze statuettes are Jupiter, Mercurius, Minerva and Danae.
Wanted by Cosimo I de Medici to symbolize the eternal
splitting with the republic institutions.
Is the first statue placed under the Loggia - 1554
Italia Grandiosa - Florence
May 4th 2008 I woke up at 6 am. I had a very lousy breakfast at 7.30. Breakfast consisted out of 2 very thin slices of bread with some jam. People were trying to find something more to eat, but there wasn’t any. Opa was managing the coffee machine, so you couldn’t get too much coffee. There were some very expensive cars parked at the hotel. There was a Lamborghini and some Porches. I was wondering why, if
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom
