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Forza Firenze Die Stadt Der Medici Verkam Zuletzt Zum Themenpark Für Blitzbesucher florenz Forza Firenze Die Stadt der Medici verkam zuletzt zum Themenpark für Blitzbesucher. Dann zwang die Pandemie zum Innehalten. Kommt jetzt eine Neuorientierung? Text und Fotos MICHAEL HANNWACKER SOLITUDINE Mit Blättern in den Florentiner Farben strebt ein Ruderer des örtlichen Clubs auf die Ponte Santa Trinita zu. Der Dom Santa Maria del Fiore wird in diesen Tagen allenfalls von Wolken bedrängt 20 TRAveller‘s WORLD TRAveller‘s WORLD 21 florenz ATTRAZIONI Caravaggios „Testa di Medusa” (links, weiter im Uhrzeigersinn) zieht in den Uffizien immer noch Zuschauer an, aber keine Schlangen. Unterhalb des Museums haben Mitglie- der der Società Canottieri Firenze das beneidenswert schöne Stück Ufer am Arno leider exklusiv. Vorschlä- ge für die Belebung eines heimischen Sofas macht der Gucci Garden an der Piazza della Signoria. Eine Schaufensterfigur schaut Passanten an der Via de’ Tornabuoni hinterher. Der Sonnenuntergang taucht die Fassaden am rechten Arnoufer in Gold 22 TRAveller‘s WORLD TRAveller‘s WORLD 23 florenz Berlin – ist Florenz klar begrenzt: Vom Vecchio und im Giardino Bardini gefeiert. Und damit ein Ufer des Arno oder jedem etwas höher Metier, in dem Florenz seit Jahrhunderten führend gelegenen Ort bildet die umgebende geblieben ist. Es haben ja längst nicht alle kulturellen Landschaft den Rahmen. Nicht nur Disziplinen ihr unter den Medici erreichtes Niveau b das gut ist für Florenz? Dass die das: Die Stadt lässt sich im Spazieren- halten können. Wogen von Landgängern der vor gehen entdecken; alle Attraktionen „Florenz war Opfer eines Klischees“, hören wir noch Livorno liegenden Kreuzfahrt- schiffe auf der Piazza del Duomo liegen, auch zueinander, a pochi passi. einmal den scharfen Beobachter Galansino, „genauer der fehlen? Oder keine Wellen asia- Von unserem Hotel sind es nur ein Annahme, dass es eine Stadt der Vergangenheit ist.“ Fast tischer Touristen an die Ufer des paar Fußminuten zu den Uffizien zwei Jahrhunderte war Florenz unter den Medici die Arno schwappen? Es ist ein sehr der Tenuta Ammiraglia. Derweil oder (Nur wenig mehr Zeit vergeht modernste Stadt der Welt, das Zentrum von Innovation warmer Sonntagnachmittag im danach ziehen Mitglieder der vermut- zwischen Ticketkauf und Einlass in und Forschung, sowohl in der Wirtschaft – „Wir haben die Frühherbst, als wir unsere Koffer lich elitären Società Canottieri Firenze Italiens berühmteste Galerie). Und Banken eingeführt“ – und Wissenschaft – „Denken Sie vom Bahnhof Santa Maria Novella mit ihren schlanken Ruderbooten ihre weniger als eine Viertelstunde nur an Galileo! Oder Leonardo!“ – als auch in der Staats- zu unserem Hotel am Borgo San Jacopo auf der drüberen Bahnen auf dem Arno. brauchen wir anschließend zum kunst und in Kunst und Architektur sowieso. „Ich Seite des Arno ziehen. Und es ist anders als sonst. Wir Der liegt wie ein lang gezogener späten Lunch im Mercato Centrale, in glaube“, sagt der engagierte Ausstellungsmacher, „an die okönnen unser eigenes Tempo bestimmen auf der Via See zwischen dem historischen dessen Obergeschoss ein paar der Verpflichtung, Florenz wieder zu einer modernen Stadt Panzani, der Via de’ Tornabuoni oder der Ponte Santa Zentrum und Oltrarno, und so, wie er besten toskanischen Produzenten zu machen.“ Trinita. Zwar hören wir auch diesmal und in den nächsten sich vor unserem Fenster kräuselt, hinreißende Teller zu Kantinenpreisen Es wäre nicht die erste Wiederauferstehung. So weiß Tagen schwäbische, schwyzerdütsche oder expatriate- fällt es je nachdem, wohin der Wind anbieten. Auch dafür nehmen sich die noch kaum ein Besucher, dass im August 44 deutsche englische Wortfetzen. Aber jetzt dominiert eindeutig das die Wellen treibt, schwer zu sagen, in Florentiner jetzt Zeit. Bomben bis auf die Ponte Vecchio alle Brücken über den weiche, fast hannoveranische Idiom der Einheimischen. welche Richtung er fließt. Aus den Arno zerstörten, um das Nachrücken der Allierten zu Und so entsteht schon in den ersten Momenten nach der höher gelegenen Zimmern unserer Ankunft ein Eindruck, den ein, zwei Tage später der Unterkunft schwimmt der Blick über päter, im Licht der behindern, und dabei auch zahlreiche historische Gebäude auffallend entspannte Sommelier des „Caffè dell’Oro“ so den Fluss hinweg und verguckt sich in späten Nachmittags- in Schutt und Asche legten. „Diese Seite des Ufers war zusammenfasst: „Florenz ist jetzt wieder wie zuletzt in den ein Panorama, dessen triumphales sonne, fällt uns ein Gound Zero“, erinnert Valeriano Antonioni, CEO der 70er-Jahren.“ Und ganz anders als in den letzten. Zentrum – oder üppigste Blüte – die unverschämt gut Lungarno Collection, auf der Terrasse der Turmsuite eines „Der Overtourism war ein Desaster für die Stadt“, Kuppel von Santa Maria del Fiore aussehender Jüngling Hotels, das in den 60er-Jahren über den Ruinen der konstatiert Arturo Galansino, Direktor des Palazzo bildet, der imposanten Kathedrale auf, der mit benei- Vor gängerbauten errichtet wurde. Strozzi. Wir treffen den Ausstellungsmacher im majestä- von Florenz. denswert schönen Stiefeln, weitem Als der Modekonzern Ferragamo in den 90ern das tischen Innenhof des strengen Renaissancepalastes, den er Barockhemd,s blumenbestickter Weste Haus übernahm und in die Hände des aufstrebenden in den vergangenen Jahren mit zeitgenössischen Stars wie an kann schon ein wenig und entsprechendem Blumenkorb Florentiner Innenarchitekten Michele Bönan legte, schuf Ai Weiwei oder Marina Abramovic bespielt hat und in der ergriffen sein bei dem angemessen outriert über die Piazza der, fast ein bisschen unabsichtlich, das erste Fashion- ersten Corona-Saison ausgerechnet mit einer Zukunfts- mGedanken, dass Filippo Santa Croce schreitet. Stylisten, Hotel der Welt. Nette Nebengeschichte: Als das Hotel vision des Argentiniers Tomás Saraceno. Er meint die Brunelleschi vor genau 600 Jahren mit Beleuchter und ein schwer bewaff- Lungarno vor drei Jahren für 14 Millionen Euro reno- Massen von Kurzzeitgästen, die in Florenz weder aßen seinem Hauptwerk als Experiment neter Fotograf folgen ihm – ein viert wurde, hat die Firma das höchst erfolgreiche mari- noch schliefen und Artikel konsumierten, die nicht in der ansetzte, das jederzeit hätte scheitern Shooting für Dolce & Gabbana vor Stadt, ja nicht einmal in Europa produziert werden. Ihnen können. Schließlich gab es 1420 time Design unangetastet auf den neuesten Stand bringen opferte die Stadt zusehends ihre Lebenskraft. Nichts schlicht keine Erfahrung bei der Florentiner Idealkulisse. Sicherheits- lassen, aber nichts verändert. Warum auch? Die unange- illustrierte diesen Befund so deutlich wie die Wochen des Konstruktion einer derart großen leute haben wenig Mühe, den Platz strengt schicke Herberge transportiert Schönheit, Eleganz Lockdowns. Das Zentrum war ausgestorben, weil, sagt Kuppel. Dass der gelernte Gold- gegen störendes Publikum abzuschir- und Stil der Familie Ferragamo und passt wie ein schöner, Galansino, „ähnlich zu Venedigs centro storico, kaum ein schmied die Geburtsstunde der men. Es ist schlicht kaum eines da. Die eleganter, handwerklich perfekter Schuh zu einer Klientel, Florentiner mehr hier wohnt“. Renaissance ausgerechnet mit beiden Tage zuvor hatte das Fashion- die Experten verstärkt nach Florenz holen wollen. Keine Frage, es sind seltsame Zeiten. Aber sie bringen Konstruktionsprinzipien der nord- Duo die extraordinären Fähigkeiten auch längst vergessene Qualitäten ans Tageslicht. Und alpinen Gotik einläutete, befriedigt des Florentiner Kunsthandwerks mit atürlich hatte la pandemia nichts Gutes. Aber eröffnen Chancen. Florenz zeigt sich in diesen Frühherbst- manchen Besucher von jenseits des aufwendigen Shows im Palazzo der Blick auf die Missstände, den sie freiräumte, tagen als eine Stadt, die für einen Moment innehält und Brenners vielleicht ein bisschen. Und könnte in etwas Positives münden. Nach den mehr als sonst ihren Einwohnern gehört. sicher fällt einem jetzt, wo sich die n Einschränkungen des Lockdowns jedenfalls scheint Einige von ihnen nutzen den geringen Andrang etwa Stadt auf sich selbst zu besinnen Florenz nun für ein neues Selbstverständnis zu üben. im Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, um die spektakuläre scheint, zumindest unbewusst auf, Nicht mehr Theme Park. Sondern selbstbewusste città Rekonstruktion der spätmittelalterlichen Domfassade dass Florenz, die Wiege des Huma- d‘arte, mitten im Leben. TW oder die Pietà Bandini zu bewundern, Michelangelos nismus, das menschliche Maß monumentale Skulpturengruppe für sein eigenes Grab. bewahrt hat. Zur Mittagszeit besetzen sie die sonst von den Touristen Denn anders als Städte mit einem okkupierten Plätze in der Trattoria „4 Leoni“ und genie- vergleichbaren, in einer Woche nicht ßen ein Polpo lesso con patate oder eine Trippa alla fiorentina zu erfassenden Ausmaß kultureller und dazu mindestens einen mezzo litro vom Rosé Alie von Schätze – Paris beispielsweise oder 24 TRAveller‘s WORLD TRAveller‘s WORLD 25 florenz RINASCENTE Arturo Galansino (rechts, weiter im Uhrzeigersinn) belebt seit gut fünf Jahren als künstle- rischer Leiter den ehrwürdigen Palazzo Strozzi. In diesem Sommer hatte er den argenti- nischen Konzeptkünstler Tomás Saraceno eingeladen, dessen Innenhof sphärisch aufzuladen. Der Palazzo Spini Feroni, Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts begon- nen und heute in Besitz von Salvatore Ferragamo, dominiert die Piazza Santa Trinita. Im Obergeschoss des Mercato Centrale bieten lokale artigiani von zehn Uhr morgens bis Mitternacht köstliche prodotti caldi e freschi preparati an. Der weitläufige Platz vor Santa Croce wird gern als Kulisse für Fashion
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