the journal Florence in 2005 Informa
Text and photos by Robert Ferdinand
The area stretches from Piazza d'Azeglio and Piazza della Libertà historically called the Hammer of the district. This name comes from an old game, played in Florence since the fifteenth century, similar to the modern tambourine, but that required the use of a large wooden club, just the hammer. The space used for this game was a little country road that divided the convent of San Domenico in Cafaggio (which houses the Chiostro del Maglio), still present between Via Venezia and Via Cherubini, from the convent of San Marco, places at that time were outside the walls. In the following centuries it was made a wide road that runs alongside the convent, led off Florence and took the name of Via del Maglio.
The area underwent a significant change in the mid-nineteenth century town planning. Following the project Del Sarto Engineer (1862-64), the neighborhood was transformed into a residential area, in fact, where many buildings were built that housed the administrative staff of Florence during the reign capital. Instead, the expansion plan of the city, built by Giuseppe Poggi, abbot led to the walls that limited the district to the east, thus creating the ring of boulevards. On this occasion he was downcast, near Piazza San Gallo (now Piazza della Libertà) also the Torre del Maglio, a large struction from the curious shape of a pyramid, which was home to a powerful hydraulic pump used to distribute water from the district Pratolino. In 1878
Via del Maglio took the name of Via Alfonso La Marmora, which still holds today, in honor of General and former Prime Minister of the Kingdom, who had long lived in the nearby Via Venice and died in that year. While in 1882 the aforementioned convent of San Domenico in Cafaggio, desecrated, it became the headquarters remained until 1998, the prestigious School of Military Application of Health, the first Italian school for training military doctors. RDF
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| The cloister Il Maglio |
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