Scientists in Florence cracked open the family tomb of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, the beguiling model who sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa portrait. They hopes to compare her son’s DNA to that of a skeleton believed to be her own.
Read moreAn American tourist broke a finger off a 500-year-old statue in a Florence museum. He is an emergency-room surgeon in Connecticut and he was arrested in front of his family after accidentally snapping the finger of a statue when he touched it.
Read moreA petition asking that Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa be returned to Italy for a visit has been submitted to French cultural authorities, supporters of the move said Friday.
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GE Oil & Gas today announced it will establish its new global headquarters in London. Florence will remain the global headquarters for GE Oil & Gas Turbomachinery Products & Services, a more than $6 billion business and a key manufacturing and engineering site for the production of centrifugal compressors and gas turbines.
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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.
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