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Farmacia Niccolini [Niccolini Pharmacy]

Founded on April 29, 1871, on the ground floor of a fourteenth-century building, the pharmacy still today presents its original furnishings in natural wood, with a black granite counter top. It also conserves a consistent part of its ancient pharmaceutical equipment, such as ceramic jars with scrolls, glass jars, an antique scale and a great bronze mortar with pestle.

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Texts by Francesco Boccanera, Anna Vittoria Laghi

English translation by Catherine Frost

Last update 28/gen/2008