Piazze di Toscana. Squares of Tuscany

Squares are very important places in towns, and they represent since the birth of human communities the elect areas destined to social life.
Each square has its own soul, a spirit which has animated its creation, mostly gradually during the years and often in the course of the centuries. More often than not these squares were born in order to satisfy basic needs and only later they were redesigned, perfected and arranged accordingto inspirations which reflect anyway the ten-dency to harmony (at times more poetical, other times more ratio-nal) which is present in the human spirit and which expresses itself in the effort to transform and sublimate the fatigue and difficulties of every day.
Therefore, a peculiar beauty seems to emerge especially when inventiveness, genius and a lively imagination have been able to transform the most 'difficult' places - narrow, steep, irregular and full of natural obstacles - by using shapes that have aunique and unrepeatable charm precisely because they have overcome these dif-ficulties - adapting themselves, respecting and exalting the course and the peculiarity of the nature of the places themselves.