Welcoming Vice-President Josep Borrell was Director Cecilie Hollberg

This morning at the Florentine museum, the welcome to Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the European Commission, at the Accademia Gallery was made by its Director Cecile Hollberg. Coming to Florence for the fourteenth edition of 'The State of the Union', annual summit European University Institute, this Spanish politician economist from Catalonia remained in the rooms of Galleria dell'Accademia for about 40 minutes where he had already been on other occasions. Borrell knew some information about this Florentine museum, but he did not visit it previously seen room new colors walls lighting complete rearrangement plus restoration with great interest as well.

The EU High Representative lingered, particularly in the interior of the Gipsoteca, struck by the peace conveyed by the face of Countess Sofia Zamoyska. Indeed, it is here that one finds the plaster cast for The Tomb of Countess Sofia Zamoyska, a funerary monument by Lorenzo Bartolini in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence.