Just outside Florence’s city walls, marooned in the middle of a huge great ring road, lies a foreign field that is for ever England.
Well, it’s really for ever Switzerland. The English Cemetery of Florence is owned by the Swiss Reformed Evangelical Church and is officially called the Protestant Cemetery of Florence.
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