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A Florence animal reserve said on Monday that a rare mix between a zebra and donkey born several days earlier is in good health. The zonkey named Ippo is the foal of an endangered donkey breed from Amiata and a zebra that was adopted by the center after it was confiscated from a failing zoo.
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The Medici family’s famed collection of ivory sculptures, carvings and assorted artworks have been put together for the first time in a sprawling exhibit at the palace once owned by Florence’s most powerful dynasty.
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Magnitude 4.4 earthquake felt in central and northern Italy today June 30, 2013. Lot of Italians who spent a sunny sunday on the beaches were afraid to live the northern Tuscan beaches after the quake.
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An strong earthquake was reported in several regions of northern Italy at around 12:30 local time. The tremor was felt in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Liguria. It was not immediately clear whether the quake had caused casualties or damage.
Read morePitti Uomo 84 is redrawing the map of contemporary menswear and of the fair itself, focusing even more on the products and looks that are leading today’s markets.
Read moreFiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne visits Tuscan capital for a meeting of the Florentine chapter of the national industry group Confindustria.
Read moreToday, at the event #repidee2013 in Palazzo Vecchio, Brown paid tribute to the city and its most famous son, mediaeval poet Dante Alighieri, whose work “The Divine Comedy inspired me for Inferno.In some ways I think Dante invented hell,” Brown said.
Read moreThere is a first case of a new coronavirus, also known as New Sars, in Italy. The patient is a 45 year old foreigner who lives in Italy, and he was recently in Jordan.
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Yesterday morning Don Alan Brennan, the american tourist 68 years old who stabbed the 21st of May in piazza Duomo in Florence among people, he left the hospital Santa Maria Nuova.
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It is being opened on the coast of Tuscany the first beach entirely managed by former psychiatric-ward patients. The new seaside establishment is located in Tirrenia, and it will be called Big Fish.
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