{"id":9957,"date":"2024-02-08T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:00:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:00:21","slug":"students-welcomed-by-florence-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2024\/02\/08\/students-welcomed-by-florence-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Welcomed by Florence Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9168-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On February 7 four of our students attended Welcome Day 2024 in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence&#8217;s city hall. The event took place in the grandiose Salone dei Cinquecento which is decorated with 16th-century frescoes and Renaissance marble statues. &#8220;It was a great event, and I was able to speak to the mayor!&#8221; enthused Jean Castilla, who took the photos published here.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9176-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9965\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jean Castilla in front of the camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The gathering of some 200 American study abroad participants has become an annual tradition in which city officials mark the special relationship between Florence and the United States. As town councilor Elisabetta Meucci <a href=\"https:\/\/t24.ilsole24ore.com\/art\/firenze-record-storico-di-studenti-americani-in-citta-questanno-saranno-18mila\">told T24 newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The relationship with young Americans has long been special for our city, both for our strong ties with the US and because young Americans increasingly believe that studying in Florence is a significant part of their education.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, a record <strong>18 thousand American students<\/strong> will be residing temporarily in Florence this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/IMG_9166-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"707\" height=\"364\" src=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/mayor-invite.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/mayor-invite.png 707w, https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/02\/mayor-invite-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 7 four of our students attended Welcome Day 2024 in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence&#8217;s city hall. The event took place in the grandiose Salone dei Cinquecento which is decorated with 16th-century frescoes and Renaissance marble statues. &#8220;It was a great event, and I was able to speak to the mayor!&#8221; enthused Jean Castilla,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10303,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions\/10303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}