On Sunday, July 24, in Gramsci Square, a gathering of about 40 classic cars
(from the 1930s to the 1980s), with a guided tour of the Be.Go Museum.
From the legendary “Topolino” to the popular “500.” From the Fiat spider 124 sports car to the mighty Alfa Romeos and the great Ferrari beasts. About forty historic cars will be on display in Castelfiorentino at the “Classic Wheels of Tuscany” rally sponsored by ASD Auto storiche Empoli, scheduled for Sunday, July 24, in Piazza Gramsci (from 5 p.m. onward).
The cars span half a century of automotive history, from the 1930s (when owning a car was the privilege of the few) to the 1980s, a period when it had by then reached mass diffusion: but that is precisely why it is able to stir personal memories and perhaps – who knows – even a little nostalgia.
The cars are scheduled to depart around 4:30 p.m. in Empoli (a hamlet of Ponte a Elsa, where the association’s headquarters is located), and the route will take in the old srt 429 to the final destination, in Piazza Gramsci in Castelfiorentino, where the cars will stop for a couple of hours.
The rally has also been organized to allow members to visit the Benozzo Gozzoli Museum in Castelfiorentino, which for the occasion has arranged for participants to take a guided tour of the frescoes preserved in the museum (the Tabernacle of the Visitation and the Tabernacle of Madonna della Tosse) through which the famous Florentine painter left in Valdelsa two important testimonies of the Renaissance in Tuscany. The event enjoys the patronage of the Municipality of Castelfiorentino.
“It is a pleasure for us,” stresses Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Culture, Claudia Centi, “to host this gathering of historic cars, which as always happens for this kind of event punctually arouses strong interest from everyone, from the young to the elderly, and which in this case also represents an opportunity to publicize and enhance our museum heritage.
“The meeting in Castelfiorentino,” stresses President Francesco Corti, “is a new opportunity to share our passion with an audience of visitors, which we hope will be numerous, who will have the chance to touch, literally, with their own hands, some of the most representative examples of historic cars that have been active and irreplaceable protagonists in the history of the 20th century.”