Here is 'Italy, as it was' in the photos from the Alinari archive

Faces and professions, places and cities.

Workers and washerwomen, officials and street urchins, artisans and urban planners;

ports and aqueducts, gardens and monuments, company outings and artisans' kiosks.

It is Italy with its faces and works, an overview of the last century in the unforgettable images of the Alinari Archives, historical repository of the national visual memory, today a Foundation of the Tuscany region chaired by Giorgio Van Straten and directed by Claudia Baroncini.

“L'Italia, com'era” is a format that will go online from 17 April 2021 on the website www.foglieviaggi.cloud edited by Vittorio Ragone and animated by journalists and writers.

For ten large cities, a videofotogallery with images of the twentieth century and an author's story on key events of local identity and history.

The selection of accompanying music and performers is by Adriana Tessier.

“Italy, as it was”, is introduced by a presentation by Michele Smargiassi, journalist and photography expert, by a comment by the writer Federica Iacobelli and by an interview with President Van Straten collected by Franco De Felice.

In the first episode Roberto Roscani will tell about “disappeared Rome”: the urban change that took place at the beginning of the twentieth century and then during fascism, when entire areas were redesigned to celebrate the splendor of the capital.

The series will continue on a weekly basis with Naples, Genoa, Bologna, Bari, Turin, Venice and Florence.