Florence citizens from older generations can be parted in two categories: those who remember a camel named "Canapone" and those who remember two dromedaries. In the Cascine Park, in fact, there was a little zoo, up to the 1980s, run by the Municipality. Among the many animals - including a female boar named Esmeralda - there was said Canapone, a camel dear to the paople of Florence with faded hair - named after Grand Duke Leopoldo of Tuscany, who had, apparenty, the same issue. When the 1966 flood came, howeveer, poor Canapone didn't survive it - as otherwise Esmeralda managed to - and to replace him to dromedaries were purchased.
Florence citizens from older generations can be parted in two categories: those who remember a camel named "Canapone" and those who remember two dromedaries. In the Cascine Park, in fact, there was a little zoo, up to the 1980s, run by the Municipality. Among the many animals - including a female boar named Esmeralda - there was said Canapone, a camel dear to the paople of Florence with faded hair - named after Grand Duke Leopoldo of Tuscany, who had, apparenty, the same issue. When the 1966 flood came, howeveer, poor Canapone didn't survive it - as otherwise Esmeralda managed to - and to replace him to dromedaries were purchased.