LIVING IN THE MIDLE AGE(D) IN FLORENCE Florence is renowned for being the center of Renaissance Art. If I think about the Renaissance , I think about the Public Square and the life, activity, enthusiasm, vision of the future, innovations that were raised and praised in the period. But living in Florence doesn’t give me the same idea, the same sense of opening. I feel Florence today is more Middle-Age(d) instead . I feel high walls of suspicion, high walls of individualism. Ganzo doesn’t have the ambition of starting a new renaissance era, but surely intends to open the city up to novelty, to share its beauty beyond the surface, to help all the people who come to visit its splendor, to better understand its significance, beyond the Disneyland attraction it may appear to be. Ganzo opens its doors to art, culture, genius, aggregation, food, wine, and anything that may bring a new enthusiasm to the city and its visitors. The future is to build bridges and links between cultures and to train the youth to respect that “different” is not better or worse, just different. There is no color at Ganzo, no religion, no dress code, no boundaries: only the scent of youth and the energy of hope. Gabriella Ganugi, march 31, 2008