Pictured is the Column of Abundance in the Republic Square in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The monumental column was erected in the 15th century at the intersection of the rid roads, the Cardo and Decumanus Maximus, thus once forming the center of Ancient Roman Florence. The column was originally topped with a statue by Donatello which fell in 1721 and was replaced with a marble statue by Giovanni Battista Foggini. During the clearing of the square between 1885 and 1895, the column was dismantled and the components stored in various sites. Only in 1956, under the engineer Giulio Cesare Lensi Orlandi Cardini, and funded by the local Azienda del Turismo, the column was reassembled with a bronze copy of Foggini's statue by Mario Moschi.
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