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turnover basis). The promoters claimed the project was aimed at freeing the surface of the square from cars, but residents saw it as an attempt to drive them out, accompanied as it was by the simultaneous selling off and closure of local health units in
Oltrarno, and as a threat to the architectural and hydrogeological stability of monuments of primary importance.
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