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March 21, 2014
Every spring, the Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) offers the chance to enter into several of the sites they manage not generally open to the public for a weekend. This spring that weekend is this one, March 22 and 23! Not ALL of the FAI sites open, and many of them are not known even by…
March 14, 2014
A very unique occasion to the visit the Villa Medicea in Poggio a Caiano this month has just opened up, with special openings and visits to the monumental apartments and Still-Life Museum. The visits will be offered the next 3 weekends: March 15 and 16 March 23 and 23 March 29 and 30
March 10, 2014
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. – Henry David Thoreau Our daily lives are surrounded by beauty, but we often forget to stop and appreciate all that surrounds us. In Florence, Tuscany and all across the world, a global all-volunteer event started in 2010 called “Slow Art Day” with…
March 7, 2014
President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle will be in Italy on March 27. Enrico Rossi, the governor of Tuscany, has written on his blog that he intends to invite the Obamas to visit Tuscany and has launched a poll #ObamainToscana to help him choose the special places he will propose to be part…
March 5, 2014
Spring is in the air and we hope it remains so for the next few weeks until the official arrival of spring. To celebrate International Women’s Day this Saturday, March 8, Florence will open its city-run museums (click to see full list) to women offering FREE ENTRY (only the Brancacci chapel and the tower in…
February 17, 2014
Tomorrow, February 18, marks the day of Michelangelo’s death 450 years ago. The city of Florence is celebrating the great genius of our past in several ways, particularly with extra information on Michelangelo at each of the sites in Florence where you will find his work. You can follow an itinerary completely dedicated to Michelangelo…
February 10, 2014
The region’s new marketing campaign to promote Tuscany in Italy and abroad has generated a lot of buzz today, even though it is supposed to come out at this week’s Tourism trade fair (BIT) taking place in Milan from February 13-15. Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, “The Divine Comedy“, the 5 scenes seek to…
January 30, 2014
As we loved our visit to the Great Cloister of Santa Maria Novella a few months ago (you can read more about it here), I write today to let you know that the special openings for the cloister continue in 2014! Not normally open to the public (as it is a school for the Carabinieri),…
December 6, 2013
For the holiday season this year, the Crypt under the Duomo in Siena hosts one of the most important masterpieces of European Medieval art, Ambrogio Lorenzetti‘s Lactating Madonna. The painting is generally housed in the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art at the Oratory of San Bernardino which is closed during the winter, so the masterpiece…
November 20, 2013
The Prime Minister of Italy, Enrico Letta, recently traveled to the US to meet with President Obama. During comments to the press, President Obama mentions that PM Letta, who is from Pisa in Tuscany, invited him to come visit and enjoy some very good food. He says he’ll gladly return since he remembers how spectacular…
