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Florence renames part of Soviet Union street to Lithuania street

BC, Vilnius, 20.09.2016.Print version

Italy's city of Florence has renamed a section of its Via Unione Sovieticae (Soviet Union Street) to Via Lituania (Lithuania Street),  the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.

 

Lithuania's ambassador to Italy, Jolanta Balcieniene, said during a ceremony on Sunday that she was very glad to see the street of Lithuania in such a historically and culturally important city as Florence.

 

In the future, the city plans to rename the entire Via Unione Sovieticae after countries that regained independence from the Soviet Union, the ministry said

 

The name of Lithuania last June was given to a square in Palermo. Several other Italian cities, including Rome, Olbia and Rimini, also have squares or streets named after Lithuania, it said.





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