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Just back from a whirlwind trip to the United States, where he addressed 2,000 students at the United Nations <\/a>on the subject of climate change, a smiling Florence mayor, Dario Nardella, connects with me via Zoom.\u00a0The frescoed ceilings of his office that light up my computer screen make the normally banal exercise in teleconferencing feel ceremonial. <\/p>\n

Speaking of climate change, I ask him about the activists he now famously chased away, cursing, from the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence\u2019s medieval town hall, that they were spraying with orange paint.\u00a0He says the act was purely vandalism, not activism.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t consider this act a simple demonstration,” he said.\u00a0“I immediately had a reaction.\u00a0An emotional reaction. That\u2019s why I decided to run toward the building, to defend Palazzo Vecchio, which I consider the Florentine house and also a symbol of international cultural heritage. You can\u2019t attack art to defend nature.”<\/p>\n

MAYOR OF FLORENCE, ITALY, SHOVES, CURSES AT CLIMATE ACTIVISTS FOR VANDALIZING HISTORIC BUILDING\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nardella tells me there is a police inquiry into the incident.\u00a0But he thinks it wouldn\u2019t be bad for those who defaced the Palazzo Vecchio to have to spend two or three weeks doing a bit of community cleaning \u2013 scrubbing “all the historical buildings we have in the city.”\u00a0The mayor adds, “Florence is like an open-air museum, full of paintings and sculptures.” For that reason, climate change has been harmful to the heritage of the Renaissance city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nardella is very aware of the threat and says the city is strongly committed to climate policy.\u00a0Florence, he says, is one of a hundred “smart and climate neutral cities \u2013 striving to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, 20 years before European goals.”<\/p>\n

Another story that grabbed headlines this month was the forced resignation of a Tallahassee, Florida, principal, Hope Carrasquilla, after a Renaissance art ruckus.\u00a0Some parents of sixth-graders complained that they hadn\u2019t been warned in advance their kids were going to see some art that involved nudity in a class.\u00a0At least one even equated Michelangelo\u2019s famous David statue<\/a> to “pornography.”\u00a0The David is one of the Florence\u2019s best-known works of art.<\/p>\n

“I was shocked about this,” Nardella says.\u00a0“We absolutely can\u2019t confuse pornography with art.\u00a0And obviously, David is a symbol of universal art.\u00a0I cannot tell you how many people every day to share the emotion, to see the David. I think this confusion between art and pornography is a direct consequence of ignorance in the world.”<\/p>\n

FLORIDA PRINCIPAL FORCED TO RESIGN AFTER SHOWING STUDENTS MICHELANGELO’S ‘DAVID’ STATUE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nardella says he has invited Carrasquilla to Florence and she told him she\u2019d be happy to come. Even if Carrasquilla was not the person teaching the art, and even if her school claims her firing was over a whole host of issues and not just the art history fracas, she has become something of an icon now in Florence, a city Nardella calls “one of the symbols of humanity in the world.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as the mayor waits for Carrasquilla, he says he has been happy to welcome American tourists<\/a> in big numbers back to Florence after they stayed away during the two years of COVID lockdowns.<\/p>\n

“I would like to thank all the visitors, especially American visitors, because after COVID, we were very depressed.\u00a0But now we are enthusiastic because this last year 2022 has been a record in terms of the number of tourists coming back to the city.”<\/p>\n

And Nardellla says that actually one of the lessons of COVID was shifting value away from “egoism and materialism” and focusing on the basics, like culture. He is glad Florence is back in the game of showcasing its stuff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/mayor-florence-welcomes-americans-back-one-symbols-humanity <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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