Her name was Sara Maranello, but Bologna was known as the 'flower fairy' or 'grandmother flowers, "an almost legendary figure who for 40 years has turned the center of the city, always dressed in suits, gloves and hat of the same colors of the flowers it sold.
The "granny" who would have turned 84 years on 4 October, died last night at the St. Orsola Hospital, where he was hospitalized for some time for some heart problems. She was born in 1926 in Castel D'Aiano, the Apennines, and it seems that at the beginning of its activities in the seventies, would gather the flowers personally in fields and woods in the area. Then he reached Bologna train, the station Vergato, and preparing the flower arrangements in the compartment that was selling, especially in restaurants and taverns in the center. More recently, it had moved to live in an apartment in the pedestrian stretch of Via D'Azeglio, and about her began to spread the word that he had amassed a fortune by selling flowers. By him over the years have been devoted to articles in various journals and, more recently, fan pages on Facebook.
Goodbye, fairy ...
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