Pitti Immagine presents the seventh edition of “Taste. In viaggio con le diversità del gusto”, at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence from 10 to 12 March. Taste, dedicated to excellence in tastes, and food lifestyles and the child of Pitti Immagine and gastronaut Davide Paolini, is the Italian parlor for good eating and good living.
February, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 17 will be opened and presented to the public the new exhibition hall of the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano with the famous frieze in terracotta glazed. The new Hall of Frieze is dedicated to the famous frieze of the late fifteenth century commissioned by Lorenzo the Magnificent inspired by the classical myths and allegories interpreted as the Platonic myth of the soul.
Taste of Tuscany back in Florence, Italy, at the Stazione Leopolda and the Starhotels Michelangelo is leading a program off the event for the second consecutive year. Just opposite the venue, the restaurant Taste of Starhotels Michelangelo offers a simple menu, but refined, linked to local traditions.
A desire to see a real-life prehistoric monster lies behind the success of life-sized reconstructions, from the famous examples in the exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace in 1851, to the more recent “Jurassic Park” and “Walking with Dinosaurs”. Today, this idea takes new form in Florence, leaving behind the confines of cinema and television to embrace again the whole visual horizon.
Piazza Signoria paved in brick “would be beautiful and most people think the same. It is an idea that should be made with some sponsors, we want to verify it in the next few weeks: I do not understand the prejudice of someone”. The mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, still speaks of the idea he announced Monday at the city council, to bring back the historic square of floor tiles, as it originally was.
Methorios Capital, an independent consulting firm specializing in corporate finance transactions for small and medium enterprises, is the financial advisor of the Florence-based company Softec, the next freshman Alternative Capital Market (MAC), which today has been admitted by the Italian Stock Exchange listing of its shares ordinary.
A prestigious and stimulating new project that melds creative genius, fashion, art and history – Salvatore Ferragamo will be the exclusive sponsor of Leonardo da Vinci’s latest exhibition, “The Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci’s Ultimate Masterpiece”, on display at the Louvre from March 29 through June 25, 2012.
After the success of the first editions, thousands of Bed & Breakfasts in Italy (in Florence and Tuscany too) will celebrate the national day of the B&B. An initiative that will involve thousands of Bed and Breakfasts, ready to offer free to renters the night of March 3 for all who want to spend a weekend in family hospitality.
For three days the music of Johann Sebastian Bach will resound throughout Florence. World-Bach Fest will be held in Florence on March, 9, 10 and 11, 2012 and will bring to the Tuscan city all the fans of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Italian coach Francesco Guidolin was awarded the Panchina d’Oro on Monday, the prize for the best coach of last season. The ceremony was held in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. At the end of the 2009–10 season, after guiding Parma to a mid-table finish, he resigned in order to become new head coach of Udinese.