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Asciano come era: Porta Massini e dintorni

ASCIANO - Da inizio Giugno al 30 Settembre in piazza della Basilica



All places, with time, change in part or strongly physiognomy.

If the change is slow and deliberate, the result is often one of their visual and architectural enrichment.

So it was not for the historical center of Asciano, in the last century.

The place was more upset and violated Door Massini, undermined and destroyed by the retreating Germans during the Second World War.

Unfortunately, the partial reconstruction of the destroyed, spurred by an unrealistic '50s modernism, has further contributed to changing its identity.

It was decided to rebuild the environment, strengthening the tremendous wound that has completely changed the structural identity of the medieval village.

With this small initiative to try to make

relive that place, in memory of ascianesi,

as we see it even today

if there were no war.



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