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| FIRENZE, FORTEZZA DA BASSO | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Location | Firenze FI - Firenze - Toscana | ||||
| Location | |||||
| Latitude - Longitude | + 43°46'55" + 11°15'09" 43.781944 11.2525 | ||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 681254.334 - Y = 4850120.167 - Zone 32T | ||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia | ||||
| Altitude AMSL | 48 m - 157 ft | ||||
| Inauguration | 1937 | ||||
| Closing | 1937 | ||||
| Designer | |||||
| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Circuito della Fortezza da Basso | |||||
| Description | Viale Spartaco Lavagnini and Piazza delle Libertà are modern names; in 1937 they were named Viale Principessa Margherita and Piazza Costanzo Ciano. The latter until 1930 it was named Piazza Cavour | ||||
| Years | 1937 | ||||
| Direction |  Anticlockwise | ||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Street course | ||||
| Inauguration | 1937 | ||||
| Closing | 1937 | ||||
| Last update of this page | May 15th 2007 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Viale Principessa Margherita (Viale Spartaco Lavagnini) - Via Guido Spadolini - Viale Filippo Strozzi - Viale Principessa Margherita (Viale Spartaco Lavagnini) - Piazza Costanzo Ciano (Piazza della Libertà) | ||||
| length | 3307 m | 10850 ft | 2.055 mi | ||
Firenze, Fortezza da Basso
Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
| PHOTOS |
| For knowing the (nearly) exact position where each photo was taken, you can download aKMZ file to be opened with Google Earth |
| Photos by Lorenzo Tommasi - May 16th 2007 |
| Click on thumbnail to open original large photo |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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| Via Spadolini | Viale Strozzi: corner between Via Spadolini (modern name) and Viale Strozzi; probably central reservation was built few years ago, when the area around Basso Fortress was redevelop | Viale Strozzi: the street goes in the subway built for a better pedestrian access from Florence Santa Maria Novella railways station to Basso Fortress. Up to few years ago, subway didn’t exist yet. Now section over the subway is a square named after Beslan Children | Viale Strozzi, subway exit seen from Piazza Bambini e Bambine di Beslan (Beslan Children Square), in the same direction of the old circuit |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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| Viale Strozzi: the street goes left, as you can understand from cars | Viale Lavagnini: here you can see four lanes of the old straight to and from Piazza della Libertà (in background) | Viale Strozzi: street goes left after having joined with viale Lavagnini | Viale Strozzi: street goes left after having joined with viale Lavagnini |
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| May 16th 2007 | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Photos (on this site) | ||||
| May 15th 2007 | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | Update | Description with map | |||
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
