Florence Daily News

Between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, an unusual exhibition

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:38:25 +0000

The importance of Arts for Florence is an essential element to understand the development of the city. Between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the ancient guilds managed a part of the power together with the commission of figurative themes.

Tuscany 2013, spring and summer in music

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:00:34 +0000

A spring and summer 2013 filled with music in Tuscany. Andrea Bocelli will be performing in July, on the 13th at Teatro del Silenzio. On July 16, Skunk Anansie will be at the Obihall.

EU political and business leaders call for solidarity

editorinchief — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:39:02 +0000

EU political and business leaders call for solidarity, political union in Europe Northern European countries must do more to support southern EU member states, Emma Marcegaglia, president elect of Business Europe, and others said today. “We see resentment from creditor countries to debtor countries. I think we cannot go on with this kind of situation [...]

The State of the Union live now from Florence, Italy

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:25:33 +0000

From 7th to 12th May 2013 the Festival Of Europe returns to Florence, an occasion to reflect on future Europe, a laboratory of communication between the European Union and its citizens and a display of the Union’s activities and its member states. Follow the live streaming of the event.

Seven dead as ship rams Genoa control tower

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:12:46 +0000

Seven people were dead and two remained missing Wednesday after a container ship, The Jolly Nero, slammed into the control tower at the e port of Genoa during the night.

The Notte Blu on Saturday in Florence

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:29:23 +0000

The Notte Blu di Firenze 2013 is an event which is part of the initiatives of Festival, moment of reflections about the future of Europe, laboratory of communication between the European Union and the citizens, window of the activities of the Union and its Member States.

Festival Of Europe returns to Florence

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:58:47 +0000

Pontormo’s birthplace and the Florentine “modern manner”

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:51:42 +0000

Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo, (Pontorme, Empoli 1494 – Florence 1556) is among the greatest artists of Italian art: the emblem of that extraordinary season that Giorgio Vasari called the “modern manner”.

Gucci has made a bid of 13 million euros for Richard Ginori.

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:56:42 +0000

Florentine historic fashion maison Gucci said it has made a bid of 13 million euros for the troubled Tuscan ceramics producer Richard Ginori.

When Margaret Thatcher came to Florence to visit the Corridoio Vasariano

editorinchief — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:25:49 +0000

Margaret Thatcher died at 87. Read the Margaret Thatcher' speech at Anglo-Italian Summit in Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy, in 1986. After the international meeting she visited the Uffizi Gallery, the Corridio vasariano and Palazzo Vecchio.