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The Loggia del Mercato Nuovo is located at the end of via Calimala on the way to Ponte Vecchio and it was built in 1550 to sell silk and precious items. During 1800 it changed its name into Straw Market because of the very famous straw hats. Nowadays it is a daily market for souvernir and sale of local products (especially leather).

 
 


The Cassone is a piece of furniture, perhaps it would be better to say THE Renaissance furniture.

Houses and palaces, depite the wealth of their inhabitants, were rather simple because they did not have many things to store and so furniture was very limited.

 
 


Paris is worth a mass: how many times have we heard this expression without immediately remembering  who had said it and without knowing why we still say it.

 
 

                                                        

Ferragosto is the name that Italians give to August 15th, national holiday, an important, untouchable almost holy holiday.
 

In Italy we sometimes refer to certain days with the Saint's day that is celebrated.
 
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