Sant'Anna: symbol of freedom and independence for the city of Florence!

Saint Anne is the protector of expectant women, who turn to her to obtain from God three favors: a happy birth, a healthy child and the milk to raise him But Florence on 26 July remember her because in 1343, the city was freed from the French Gualtieri di Brienne who was driven from Palazzo Vecchio, where he managed to escape through a secret passage still called "the gate of Gualtieri". Ten months earlier he had been called to govern the city in continuous struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines, but his attitude was not even liked by those who had...