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The latest news about Tuscany. Good and bad news from Italian and international newspapers.

Recent News about Tuscany Around the Web

November 22, 2010

Good and bad news in and about Tuscany We have decided to start a new blog’s column, if we can call it this way. Every week we’ll collect the most interesting articles about Tuscany and its cities and regions. News telling about its excellence and about its worst. The following are the main articles and…

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An Autumn of Culture

October 24, 2010

A fall project called “Tuesdays in Art” is offering special evening opening times including free entry into several large state museums in order to promote the knowledge of the large cultural patrimony Italy possesses to new audiences. The special openings take place the evening of the last Tuesday of the month from now until December,…

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Handy Travel Belts and Wallets

October 7, 2010

An Argentine tourist, 64 years old, traveling with his wife in Italy as part of a tour group making their way down to Rome, stopped for a day in Siena. In the afternoon, he stopped at a very popular bar in the center of Siena and unfortunately forgot his bag behind when he left. A…

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The Saracen Joust in Arezzo June 2010

June 5, 2010

A year is passed and June has come. On the third Saturday of June there will take place a great medieval festival, very famous in Italy: La Giostra del Saracino or the Saracen Joust of Arezzo. The Saracen Joust takes places twice per year (June and September) in Piazza Grande, beautiful square in Arezzo. This…

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Palazzo Vecchio Opens in the Evenings

May 13, 2010

Palazzo Vecchio burns the midnight oil! After the great success during Florence White Night 2010, Matteo Renzi, Florence Mayor, decided to open Palazzo Vecchio at night. From May 2nd to 31st Palazzo Vecchio is open every day from 9am to 12 am, except on Thursday (9 am to 2 pm). It means that you can…

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The Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Siena Opens its Doors

April 27, 2010

If you are in Siena over the next few months, take advantage of the special opening to the public of the Palazzo Chigi Saracini, a beautiful medieval palace in the center of Siena normally closed to the public as it houses the Chigiana Musical Academy. In an attempt to share its extraordinary art collection and…

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Ash cloud of the Iceland volcano over Tuscany

April 18, 2010

As most probably already know by now, the ashes of the Eyjafjallajokull, an Iceland volcano, continue to spread forming an ash cloud over Europe. This in turn has caused closure of important European airports in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam and cancellation of flights across the rest of Europe. This, of course, has a direct…

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Chocolate Fair in Piazza Santa Croce

February 5, 2010

The days are dreary, wet and cold but if you’re here this weekend anyway, why not enjoy some time enjoying the best decadent treat there is at the Chocolate Fair in Piazza Santa Croce? Even with the rainy weather, the fair goes on under tents. The fair started yesterday and goes on through Sunday, from…

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Lucca is Top Idyllic Place to Live

September 16, 2009

Forbes magazine recently published “Europe’s Most Idyllic Places to Live” with a raking of five favorite simple, unspoiled and near-heavenly locations to take up residence in Europe according to a panel of experts in the fields of travel and relocation. Lucca came in second place, a charming medieval city in Tuscany, just after the Greek…

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Calcio Storico in Florence – June 24

June 22, 2009

Photo by TomStardust The teams of the Florence’s Calcio Storico (Blues, Whites, Greens and Reds) have faced off over the last two weeks in the semi-finals to decide which two teams compete in the traditional Tournament of St. John in Florence’s Piazza Santa Croce on June 24. The soccer game played in costume is one…

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