Italy - Florence - Carabinieri and construction hoarding in Piazza degli Uffizi

Carabinieri officers mingle with crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In front of them reproductions of renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Watching for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints, we see an incongruous landscape of classical art and urban modernity. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character as the two policemen keep the city secure from possible attack.

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Carabinieri officers mingle with crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In front of them reproductions of renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Watching for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints, we see an incongruous landscape of classical art and urban modernity. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character as the two policemen keep the city secure from possible attack.