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"La linea del sole. Le grandi meridiane fiorentine - The line of the sun. Great sundials in Florence" is the title of the event which highlights the importance of the instruments used to measure time. Composed of scenographic installations, interactive models, original tools, books, drawings and a multimedia workstation, the exhibition offers three important events.

June 21 marks the inauguration in Piazza dei Giudici of a monumental sundial, at the entrance of the museum. On the same day the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral hosts a demonstration in which the sunlight will hit a marble disk installed in the XV century by the astronomer Paolo Dal Pozzo Toscanelli. This event marks the closest distance between the Sun and the Earth and will be staged again on September 23 in Santa Maria Novella.