We will be in Florence the first week of this event. Would like to go see it, think my 12 yr old daughter would find it interesting. It is basically impossible to find any information on this event. Have any of you been before? Is it worth going to? How do you get tickets? We will be in Florence from June 9-15th. Thanks for any input.
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I think nowadays they go on sale one week before each game at the Box Office - Toscana, inside the old "Le Murate" penitentiary (now converted in a shopping mall).
Here is the location:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BdRm5ocGXepSTcq59
Below is the entrance door to the Box Office - Toscana:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ni4LePUC72dTwHW36
It's a game of rugby/kickboxing in one. It's violent in the field and often on the stands too, so don't wear the colors of the teams playing, for good measure. When I was growing up in Florence, the teams were often coming to the "Costoli" City swimming center where I was working to work out in the pool. They were all very muscular gang members former inmates or current inmates on parole full of tattoos before tattoos were popular outside of jail. Really a scary bunch. I think it is appropriate that they now sell the tickets in a prison where their predecessors used to stay. LOL.