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Farmacia dei Serragli [Serragli Pharmacy]

Founded around 1880, the pharmacy occupies the ground floor of a building on the corner between Via della Chiesa and Via dei Serragli. It has retained its original furnishings which, ordered by the proprietor of the time, Dr. Dylan, from a craftsman at San Casciano, consist of a set of sober wooden cabinets, enamelled in white trimmed in green, that run along three walls in the sales area and the adjacent room. The sales counter and a desk have imitation marble tops. Of the antique pharmaceutical equipment there remain some glass bottles and a few laboratory instruments.

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Texts by Francesco Boccanera, Anna Vittoria Laghi

English translation by Catherine Frost

Last update 21/nov/2011