On the occasion of the Festa della Toscana, which wants to be a tribute to all those who recognize themselves in the values of peace, justice and freedom, the Society of St. John the Baptist, in collaboration with the Tuscany Region, the Municipality of Florence and the Historical Parade of the Florentine Republic, on November 30, organizes a procession of institutional Gonfaloni of the Tuscany Region, of the Municipality of Florence, of the Municipalities and Provinces of Tuscany and of the Associations of Historical Re-enactment that runs through the city streets in memory of the penal reform promulgated on this day in 1786, by Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, Grand Duke of Tuscany. With this reform, which was the Grand Duke’s “monument and glory”, Tuscany became the first state in the world in which the death penalty was abolished.
The procession starting from the seat of the Regional Council reaches Piazza Signoria where a commemorative prolusion is held and the deposition of a wreath on the plaque placed in Palazzo Vecchio in perennial memory of the abolition of the death penalty in Tuscany.
