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For Destination Florence Magazine, we speak with Raffaello Napoleone, Chief Executive of Pitti Immagine, about the first Pitti Immagine trade fair to be held in Florence since the pandemic struck. ...
The works were entirely funded by the Associazione Amici dei Musei e dei Monumenti fiorentini.
A technicality is preventing countless foreigners in Tuscany from securing a Covid-19 vaccine. Despite the presence of the “Non iscritti SSN” (persons unregistered with the national health service) ...
Italy’s Green Pass system will come into effect on August 6, requiring the EU Digital Covid certificate to be shown to access certain non-essential services, such as eating inside in ...
Restoration works have been completed on the funeral monument of the Polish Count Michal Bogoria Skotnicki at Santa Croce, thanks to the support of the Inner Wheel Club Firenze Medicea.
The restoration of a sculptural group at piazzale Michelangelo including the bronze copy of Michelangelo's David has begun, commissioned by the Municipality of Florence with the support of Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A.
In this interview with Charlie MacGregor, CEO and founder of The Student Hotel, we find out about the entrepreneur’s perspective when it comes to investing in Tuscany. ...
Kathy McCabe is back on our screens with Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive, a PBS special that concentrates on the transformative power of Italy. “I know ...
On July 3, the San Giovanni Baptistery opened its doors to the public once again.
While the usual fireworks display will not be taking place this year, as in 2020, there are still plenty other ways to mark the occasion.
The centre of the fountain is pietra serena and white marble, with three bronze monkeys created by the Vicenza sculptor Camillo Mariani (Vicenza, 1567 – Rome, 1611), for the Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria II della Rovere.
The magnificent work by the Dominican painter and friar measures 175 by 175 cm and was painted around 1450 on the commission of Cosimo de’ Medici.
Founded by the highly esteemed painter Jules Maidoff in 1975, the Fulbright scholar had come to Florence to paint and established the school which has had enormous impact over its 46 years.
As Tuscany’s hospitals begin to close Covid-19 wards, the vaccination effort is being taken to another level. The over-60s can now receive a single shot of Janssen – Johnson & ...
An eight-year restoration campaign has been completed in the New Sacristy of the Medici Chapels. The tombs and wall coverings have undergone a conservative restoration by ...
Restoration work has been completed on a portrait of sixteenth-century poet Laura Battiferri, painted by Agnolo Bronzino. The painting, which is kept in the Palazzo Vecchio, is about to go on loan to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Italy’s LGBTQI+ community is once again at the center of the national political debate and continues to fight for the rights of all, without exceptions. What ...
The Florence branch of ArciGay, the leading Italian non-profit organization for the LGBTQI+ community, opens its new headquarters at Circolo Arci Novoli (via di Novoli 9) on June 4. With ...
It was Christmas Day of 1832 when Bostonian clergyman Ralph Waldo Emerson, aged 29, set sail to Europe. He toured the continent, spending six months in Rome, Florence and Venice, ...
The works were undertaken by the Bargello Museums and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, with the financial support of Friends of Florence.
Over a third of Italians have now received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and almost one-sixth of the country’s population has been fully vaccinated. With these numbers in ...
The project undertaken by Museo Novecento and curated by Sergio Risaliti comes ahead of the 50th anniversary in 2022 of the phenomenal exhibition of Moore's monumental sculptures held at Forte di Belvedere in 1972.
In Florence Cathedral, steps and a viewing platform have been added to enable an up-close look at Domenico di Michelino’s 1465 painting, Comedy Illuminating Florence. Part of the celebrations to ...
The exhibition set up in the Sala Borghini of Museo Degli Innocenti (piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13) is the result of a larger project conceived by Arabella Natalini.
