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The Flood Ladies were a group of international female artists who contributed artworks to the city of Florence following the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno as a sign of solidarity and to help repair the psychological damage done by the flood. The group was formed in Florence, Italy in 1966. Contributors to the collection lived all over the ...
Florence: Days of Destruction (Italian: Per Firenze) is a 1966 documentary about the 1966 Flood of the Arno River and its catastrophic effect on the city of Florence. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli , it is Zeffirelli's only documentary, and features the only known film footage of the flood.
The flood on November 4, 1966 collapsed the embankment in Florence, killing at least 40 people and damaging or destroying millions of works of art and rare books. New conservation techniques were inspired by the disaster, but even decades later hundreds of works still await restoration. [9]
Vajont disaster: 9 October 1963 Vajont: 1,917 (and 1,300 definitively missing) 1966 flood of the Arno and 1966 Venice flood: 4 November 1966 Florence, Grosseto, Pisa, Pontedera, Venice: 101 in Tuscany, 1 in Venice Worst serie of floods in centuries and worst flood in the Florence's history since 1557. 1968 Belice earthquake: 14 January 1968 ...
This was the worst rail disaster in peacetime Italy. The 1962 Castel Bolognese train disaster occurred on March 8, 1962, in the Castel Bolognese railway station, near Ravenna, in Italy. [5] The Diretto 152 night train between Bari and Milan derailed at 1:56 a.m. shortly before entering the station, killing 13 and wounding 127.
The Corte di Cassazione confirmed the sentences on 24 November 1992, officially recognizing a "coordinated hand by the Mafia" in the disaster. On 18 February 1994, Florence Court discharged MSI member of Parliament Massimo Abbatangelo from the massacre charge, but deemed him guilty of giving the explosive to Misso in early 1984. Abbatangelo was ...
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The via dei Georgofili bombing (Italian: Strage di via dei Georgofili) was a terrorist attack carried out by the Sicilian Mafia on 27 May 1993 outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy in retaliation for the arrest of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina.