These are some of the most famous Florentine monuments in need of various types of restoration or maintenance, for which the City of Florence, in the month of September launched a call for “adoption”, named “Florence, I care”.
The municipal administration pointed to potential private sponsors and offered to stakeholders a special space to advertise their image, in non-invasive way and respectful forms of public decorum.
Within six months after its launch, only the column of San Zanobi is “adopted” with 20,000 euros . All the other monuments still remain “orphans”. Among the reasons of this situation the present difficulties of the economic system.