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Piazza San Marco, Florence

square in Florence, Italy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ3382259 ↗
Source-derived summary

Piazza San Marco is a city square in Florence, Italy. In the center of the piazza is the Monument to Generale Manfredo Fanti.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Piazza San Marco, Florence” as square in Florence, Italy. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Piazza, Marco and Florence.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 23-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Piazza, Marco and Florence providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3382259. Authority coordinates are 43.778, 11.259. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Piazza San Marco, Florence” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.