Bringing the latest news and trends from Florence, Tuscany, and Italy since 2011. Now powered by artificial intelligence
From November 17 to December 19, 2014, Opera di Santa Croce will be running an international crowdfunding campaign to restore the loggia of the Pazzi Chapel. This is the first ever Kickstarter campaign by a major cultural institution in Florence, Italy.
Read more
Today within the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta mission, the Philae lander touched down on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. The Italian technical and scientific contribution among Research Institutes and Industry has been coordinated by ASI, the Italian Space Agency.
Read more
Botticelli’s Venus will not be loaned from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery to Turin’s Reggia di Venaria for the Milan Expo 2015 world’s fair, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said.
Read more
The third edition of the UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries will take place from 2 to 4 October 2014 in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
Read more
The head of Florence’s museums, Cristina Acidini, said Monday September 22, 2014 her decision to quit after a 38-year-long career as a culture ministry official was taken earlier this month because of planned reforms reorganizing the management of Italy’s museums.
Read more
Finance police on Monday September 29, 2014, cited seven Chinese citizens after exposing an illegal operation of seven fur workshops with dormitories for workers hidden behind drywall.
Read more
A wave of tornado-force winds and heavy rains pelted the city of Florence and parts of Tuscany today, Friday september 19, 2014. It leaved a trail of injuries, uprooted trees, and damaged buildings in its wake.
Read more
Ice cream is second only to pizza and pasta in the collective imagination of what Italian food stands for, surveys said during Gelato Festival in Florence, Italy.
Read more
The Gelato Festival’s European Final will be in Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence from September, 12 to 14 2014 (hours 12 am-12pm). Free Entry.
Read more
The Florence born Giulia Pauselli is the third italian ever at Paris’s Crazy Horse.
Read more