By 1882, most Jews in Florence had moved away from the ghetto, and in that year built the new synagogue in the area most of them moved to. There were still some Jews living in the centre -not necessarily in the ghetto- and they opened two new small synagogues -one of Italian and one of Sephardic rite- a few blocks from the former ghetto.Between 1881 and 1898, the ghetto was slowly demolished, before the demolishing was completed it was an empty "ghost neighbourhood" for a while. That's why in 1886, when the theme of the local Carnevale was "Arabic" (in another year it was "Chinese", for example), they created an "Arab town" in the former ghetto.For some reason, somebody wrote "Purim" under one of the pictures taken from the event, and this caused the National Library of Israel to invent a story around it, claiming that this shows the ghetto during Purim when everybody dressed as Persians.I wrote to them about this, they haven't replied yet. I hope this means they are researching it... They might claim that it was a Purim joke. ;) Purim alegre!