Florence's catastrophic floods: Tuscan capital devastated on same day six centuries apart

Italy on this Day ^ | November 4, 2016 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

More than 3,000 people were believed to have been killed when the River Arno flooded the streets of Florence on this day in 1333.

More than six centuries later, 101 people died when the city was flooded on the same day in 1966. The 50th anniversary of the most recent catastrophe, which took a staggering toll of priceless books and works of art in the Cradle of the Renaissance, is being commemorated in the city today.

The 1333 disaster - the first recorded flood of the Arno - was chronicled for posterity by Giovanni Villani, a diplomat and banker living in the city.

A plaque in Via San Remigio records the level the water allegedly reached in 1333 and another plaque commemorates the level the water reached after the river flooded in 1966, exactly 633 years later.

Villani wrote in his Nuova Cronica (New Chronicle), 'By noon on Thursday, 4 November, 1333, a flood along the Arno River spread across the entire plain of San Salvi.'

By nightfall, the flood waters had filled the city streets and Villani claimed the water rose above the altar in Florence's Baptistery, reaching halfway up the porphyry columns.

Apart from its two central piers, the Ponte Vecchio was swept away when huge logs in the rushing water became clogged around it, allowing the water to build and leap over the arches.

An old statue of Mars that stood on a pedestal near the Ponte Vecchio was also carried off by the flood waters, Villani recorded.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

I know what will help, importing more ‘refugees’ and ‘migrants’...says every leftist politician in Italy. Oh and let’s not test them for covid either, even though we require it for actual Italians. The mystery is why since covid has a death rate far below 1% why are leftist governments pushing ‘vaccines’ for it and the answer is obvious. I read an article over at CanadaFreePress about that, “Merchants of Death”, so give that a look. It was never about health and always about that. They even put out predictive programming years in advance (such as the UK show ‘Utopia’ in 2013). This flooding is just a coincidence, unlike the leftist policies ruining Europe and elsewhere.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

Yes but that is math which as we now know is racist.

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

From the 1970’s on we’ve had overpopulation, new ice age, acid rain, ozone hole, global warming and climate change. None of them real. All of them designed to give power to the left (who are all Sun deniers).