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  • Early twentieth-century furnishings of the Pharmacy Bartolini, Montevarchi.zoom in altra finestra

Farmacia Bartolini [Bartolini Pharmacy]

Founded around 1880 as the Medici Pharmacy, it has been known as the Bartolini Pharmacy since the early years of the 20th century. It has always occupied the same premises, on the ground floor of a nineteenth-century building. Recently remodelled, the pharmacy has retained its elegant antique furnishings from the early 20th century, integrated with more functional modern furniture. Surviving from its old pharmaceutical apparatus are nineteenth-century jars produced in the Deruta manufactory.

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Texts by Francesco Boccanera, Anna Vittoria Laghi

English translation by Catherine Frost

Last update 15/feb/2008