Florence culture and tourism together again after 30 years: new alderman is Alessia Bettini

Culture and Tourism together again after more than 30 years. In Florence, Mayor Dario Nardella today announced the alderman who will be in charge of culture after Tommaso Sacchi was called in October 2021 to Milan by Mayor Giuseppe Sala to play the same role, and redistributed some delegations among the aldermen. Culture has been assigned to current vice mayor Alessia Bettini who, in addition, and this is a further novelty, also receives Tourism until now the matter of her colleague Cecilia Del Re.

Culture and Tourism therefore return to being assigned to the same person, and this has not happened in Florence for over thirty years. In the juntas that have followed one another over the past three decades, in fact, culture was the prerogative of an alderman who had this delegation exclusively.

Before Tommaso Sacchi in fact they had held only culture Giuliano da Empoli, with Matteo Renzi, while in Leonardo Domenici’s 10 years as mayor Giovanni Gozzini (at the time Director of the Gabinetto Vieusseux and professor of contemporary history and history of journalism at the University of Siena), Simone Siliani and Eugenio Giani, thecurrent president of the Region, while under Mayor Mario Primicerio (from 1995 to 1999) was appointed historian Guido Clemente, among the foremost experts on ancient Rome, who died in February 2021, and who was among the creators of theFlorentine Summer, the cultural menu that for years has accompanied those who stay in or pass through the city between June and September. Going even further backwards we find Giorgio Morales, who from 1985 to 1989 was alderman for Culture until he became mayor. To go even further back in time would require consulting the archives of Palazzo Vecchio but we are safe in saying that Alessia Bettini is the first woman to hold this position.

Aheavy assignment for a city that is among the most important in the world for culture and tourism with many open games on the table: first and foremost,harmonizing two delegations that are often experienced as one handmaiden to the other but instead have their own profile of commitments that complement each other.

The newly appointed alderman is someone the mayor trusts and comes from the world of commerce with experience in the Environment in the previous term. Surely the conduct of these next two years will be side by side with the first citizen who has always put a lot of attention on culture. Florence is a city that thrives on culture and tourism, playing in the national and European arena the game on the legislation of short rentals that are distorting historic centers by emptying apartment buildings making them palaces of rooms for rent.

Florence culture and tourism together again after 30 years: new alderman is Alessia Bettini

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