Florence celebrated the festival of San Giovanni yesterday, a city wide holiday with many shops closed and the local bars and dance clubs in full swing by 8pm.

The festival takes place on June 24, a great day to be in Florence!

The festival ended with a 10pm fireworks display. We had ring-side seats for the fireworks which were so dramatic after watching amazed for several minutes we found the “little camera” and recorded to the end. We thought we had seen the finale at least two times before the crescendo. Firenze sure knows how to put on a fireworks display. It was the fireworks of a lifetime.

The video is posted in two parts and it is quite long in its entirety.

Ron