introduction
Level reached in Piazza Santa Croce, well above the flood of 1557.
Level reached above San Remigio, above the flood of 1333.
THE Floods in Florence November 1966 are one of the most significant events that the city (A city is an urban entity (a “human settlement”) of Florence (Florence (in Italian Firenze) is a city of Italy, capital of the region of Tuscany and…) Since By the end of the Second (Second is the feminine of the adjective second, which comes immediately after the First or the…) World War, mud is a mixture of water and fine particles of sediment…) carried by the tide of the river (In the French-language Hydrography is a river a watercourse that flows into the sea or into …) The Arno, in fact, caused considerable damage throughout the city, destroying the material means of many human activities and, in particular, many works of art that have survived since the Renaissance.
Historical
Over the centuries, the city of Florence has suffered regular flooding from the river that crosses it (A sleeper is a fundamental element of the railway line. It is a piece crossed… place in the years 1333, 1547 and 1844). After a month (The month (from lat. mensis “month”, and earlier in the plural “menses”) is a period that is already very rainy in the region, a rain (rain mostly denotes an intense and continuous precipitation of water in the State …) falls on Florence from November 2, 1966. Two dams upstream of the city (Levane and La Penna) begin to overflow and the valves are then opened wide so that the dams do not give way completely (The fully or fully automatic, or by Anglicism completion or …).
On the night of November 3rd, 1966, the Arno burst its dams and the water level (water is a ubiquitous chemical compound on earth, essential for life…) rises dangerously. The first damage can be seen directly on the famous Ponte Vecchio and the shops installed there. After flooding the quays, the river flows throughout the city, which includes many topographical basins, quickly reaching the first floors of houses.
The streets of Florence have become a huge swamp of mud, a mixture (A mixture is a combination of two or more solid, liquid or gaseous substances…) of rubble and fuel oil that has leaked from the cellars (for the winter). Mud and water seep into churches, museums and the central library, causing extensive damage to the city’s rich artistic heritage.
High water (The term inundation traditionally refers to the overflowing of a river that…) claims 34 deaths (17 in Florence itself and 17 in the rest of the province). The river leaves the streets of Florence just 2 days (The day or day is the interval separating sunrise from sunset; it is the…) later, leaving the city in a situation (In geography, the situation is a spatial concept that allows the relative localization of a disaster…): There is a lack of food, bread, electrical energy (this requires an electrical energy supply for an electrotechnical system…) and drinking water (drinking water is water that contains a certain number of must fulfill properties that make it special…). Flood water exceeds 15 feet (4.92 m) in the city and exceeds the first floors.
Help pours in (A tributary is a watercourse that flows into a watercourse with a higher flow, at…) from all over Italy as well as volunteers (many students) from all over the world (the word world can mean anything 🙂 . They are called the Mud Angels (the Angeli del Fango in Italian) and a stele is erected to commemorate their action. In the United States, Senator Ted Kennedy will announce on television (television is the transmission of images or … by cable or radio waves) the creation of the CRIA (Committee for the Rescue of Italian Art) under his patronage ( Le Patronage is a series of associative initiatives to protect and…) and that of Jacqueline Kennedy.
damage restoration
For artistic work
After a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of these damaged works, all the public restoration laboratories in Florence joined together to form the historical Opificio dei Medici, on the initiative of Umberto Baldini (1921-2006) (previously director of the Gabinetto di Restauro in Florence (located in the premises of the Uffizi Gallery). From 1970 to 1983 he was its director. The office already known as the Opificio delle pietre dure became the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR). Forty years later, Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper, a giant canvas measuring 6m by 2.61m, finally arrives in the office’s vast workshop in November 2006, after having migrated from one temporary depot to another.
At the National Library, Review 2003
- In the Magliabechiana Collection: documents inundated: 59,428, restored: 34,401, washed only: 14,024, to be washed: 1,278, missing: 4,268.
- In the Palatina Collection: documents flooded: 10,090, restored: 5,654, only washed: 3,098, to be washed: 454, missing: 372.