Polish Business News Magazine

The word ‘campanelismo’ in Italian refers to the competition between towns to build ever higher clock towers. In San Gimignano this procedure was taken to extremes as individual families sought to built towers as high as they could in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Once around 20 towers stood, today there are still […]

Empoli is located around 30km south west of Florence. It is only 30 metres above sea level and is quite flat.
It is clearly a local centre, perhaps once for agriculture - indeed it has given its name to a type of artichoke. It is clearly also a shopping centre, hence my visit.