The Ministry of Environment and Greenpeace are far from agreed on the data on water pollution to the island of Giglio where Costa Concordia wrecked last January 13. Greenpeace has warned that chemicals from a cruise ship wreck were oozing into the sea around Italy’s picturesque Giglio Island but the environment ministry said the levels were not significant.
Back again this year the campaign “The eggs of solidarity” Tuscany Cancer Association. The initiative will continue until Thursday, April 5. Make a small donation will be offered delicious chocolate eggs to support the Cancer Association of Tuscany (ATT) in its activities to home care cancer free.
The Salone del Mobile (Home Furnishing Fair) of Florence has reached its fifteenth edition. It is one of the most important Italian events for the home & living industry open to the public. The fair will be open to public from March 10, 2102 to March 18, 2012 at the Fortezza da Basso.
The City of Florence, in the month of September, launched a call for monuments “adoption”, named “Florence, I care”. Within six months after its launch, only the column of San Zanobi is “adopted” with 20,000 euros . All the other monuments still remain “orphans”. Among the reasons of this situation the present difficulties of the economic system.
Four special taxis for disabled people. Two Fiat Scudo, a Volkswagen Caravel and a Mercedes Vito equipped with more sophisticated technologies, and therefore also suitable for long journeys, are suitably modified with special outfits, for needs of people with limited mobility.
Speaking at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Florence), German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said: “We have shown a lot of solidarity with Greece. Everyone knows the real problems of Greek society are in Greece and not to be found abroad.” He currently serving as the Federal Minister of Finance in the Second Cabinet Merkel.
One day in Tuscany for the Italian minister Andrea Riccardi, who visited today the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence to talk about integration in schools, and Prato, in the office of the Province, where he met young children of immigrants. Riccardi said: “I hope that the matter of the two Italian marines in India will be resolved. The Indian court must recognize the truth in the facts, that it is Italy that must judge them.”
Whistles and white handkerchiefs greeted players from both sides at the start of this evening’s match between Parma and Fiorentina (final score 2-2), the result of tensions that have accumulated in Parma since the defeat at home to Napoli and, earlier still, away to Genoa.
Time of tastings, in Florence: on March, from 7th to 10th our city will become the capital of Italian food & beverage, with the seventh annual “Taste”, a journey to discover the excellence and diversities of taste. There are many events – almost an hundred – around Florence for “Out of Taste”. Here there are some of the most important.
“A Tear in the Heart” (Con un buco nel cuore) by Sasha Perugini is the story of a woman who plays tough: never afraid, never complaining, not even when faced with a significant heart operation. The author, director of Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, tells her experience in Italian with self-irony and lightness even in the most dramatic moments.
