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Ser-Vito, Florence (2025)

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20/03/2024

, 20 March 2024 – The appointment is for all enthusiasts, but also for the simply curious, who want to see the arrival of spring on the facade of the basilica of Santa Maria Novella. On March 20th at 11.45 am the "Equinox in Santa Maria Novella" will be held in the basilica, where the description and observation of the spring equinox will be held. Simone Bartolini, an expert on the subject, will guide the public both to knowledge of the Sundials of Santa Maria Novella, designed in the 16th century by the illustrious Dominican cartographer and astronomer Fra Egnazio Danti, and to the observation of the passage of sunlight in the basilica. The event will be free by presenting the image of the poster, printed or in digital. Free entry to the event for all those who present the printed poster or directly from their mobile phone (link to download the poster https://www.smn.it/it/eventi/l-equinozio-in-santa-maria-novella /). About 450 years ago, the friar and astronomer Egnazio Danti (formerly a cartographer at the court of Cosimo I de Medici) placed some scientific instruments of various shapes and nature on the façade of Santa Maria Novella which still continue to calculate time and amaze people today. who observes them. A few years ago, the meridian lines designed by Danti to determine certain astronomical moments such as the equinoxes and solstices were also completed. Sundials work thanks to gnomic holes made in the Renaissance period which project sunlight onto them on particular days of the year. Precisely on the occasion of the spring equinox, an observation of the solar event is offered directly in the basilica, an event that only happens once a year (clouds permitting). The illustration, by its scientific nature, will be held by Simone Bartolini, cartographer and main curator of the installation of the sundials of the basilica and author of numerous publications on the subject. Maurizio Costanzo