A popular band, Fiati Sprecati, had just come playing, singing and walking along the riverbank, onto the Ponte Vecchio, stopping under the famous bust of Benvenuto Cellini, to sing rousing songs from the anti-fascist Resistance movement of the Second World War. Many of us were tourists who knew none of the words, but many were locals who knew them and sang them with gusto, dancing on the bridge and raising fists at appropriate moments. When I took this, the band was singing and getting the crowd to sing along to Bella Ciao, one of the most popular of the Resistance songs. And one of the musicians took the opportunity to raise the little Palestine banner. (Given the present horrific war by Israel against Palestine, I thought it was an appropriate picture to post in my own little act of solidarity.)
