(ANSA) - FLORENCE, DECEMBER 22 - "The Louvre, the Prado, the museums of London, and also the Met and the Moma in New York are closed on December 25 in Europe, where the highest season is between December and January. Museums if they opened on the 25th they would be practically the only ones. This goes against the Italian and Florentine tradition of Christmas. The 25th is not a holiday only for believers but for all families, and if we want to value the family, the museums must remain closed on the 25th".
Thus the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, audited by the culture commission of the Palazzo Vecchio.
Just in Florence, the civic museums, including the one in Palazzo Vecchio, will instead be open at Christmas and for the holidays, a choice defended by the mayor Dario Nardella.
For the trade unions Filcams Cgil and Fp Cgil Firenze "the decision of the municipal council of Florence to open the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio in an extraordinary way on Christmas afternoon, without mediation and bookshop services, has reopened a debate in the city on the model of cultural use. We continue to believe the administration's choice was wrong because it adds nothing, indeed it risks obscuring, the wide and important cultural offer planned for some time and which sees numerous initiatives for all holidays".
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