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World Service,05 Nov 2009,10 mins

Florence Floods

Witness History

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Witness is the new history programme from the BBC World Service - in which people who lived through historic events tell their stories. Today - we take you back to Florence in 1966. The city has been flooded, and young people from all over Europe have gathered there to try to save its artistic treasures.

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