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Consider:
I had hoped to visit the gallery before I left Florence, but it's closed on Monday.
Q1 : Shouldn't it be it was closed ?
Q2 : Does present simple Imply more definite sense ? I mean "it is closed" imply that It has been closed on Monday from the Ice-age to the current moment !
Q3: Is it grammatical to use tenses in above sequence, Past Perfect, Past Simple and Present ?
It must be noted the highlighted sentece belong to cambridge grammar book.
It's fine.
The present tense here is a 'generic': it's always closed on Monday, within the timeframe we're concerned with. (This would be reinforced if Monday were Mondays, but that's not necessary.) The 'present' is a very loose notion, defined pragmatically by the context: if you're talking about my trips you're pretty much excluding most of recorded history as irrelevant to the conversation.
