A laurel wreath was lowered in the water Monday, January 13, 2014, at the site of the Costa Concordia, two years after the mammoth cruise ship rammed into a rock formation on Tuscany’s Island of Giglio, killing 32 people on board and injuring hundreds more.
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Florence brands celebrate Pitti fashion fair
Pucci, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ermanno Scervino and Roberto Cavalli are the five Florence-born brands at the centre of events, exhibits and fashion shows celebrating in June the 60th anniversary of the Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana which promotes Italian fashion through biannual international trade fair Pitti.
Read morePitti Uomo 85, a contemporary global lifestyle
Pitti Uomo 85 interprets contemporary menswear and with each edition it redraws the map of the fair, focusing on the products and looks that are leading today’s markets. Pitti Uomo is scheduled in Florence, Fortezza da Basso, 7-10 January 2014.
Read moreNew Year’s Day 2014 in Florence: ZTL non-stop and shuttles to downtown
Night of celebration for the New Year’Eve 2014 in Florence, Italy. Visitors and resident should remember some different rules and restrictions for the circulation.
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New Year’s Eve 2014 in Florence, what to do…
The city of Florence offers a 2014 New Year’s Eve with music and party in the streets and public places with no fee entrance. The major event is the concert by the Italian pop singer Max Pezzali (former member of the 883 group) on piazza della Stazione, from midnight to 2 am.
Read moreRiace Bronzes return to public
Splendid warriors from antiquity on display in Reggio CalabriaWorld-famous Riace Bronzes return to public eye. The 2,500-year-old Riace Bronzes are in a renovated Reggio Calabria National Archeological Museum following four years of restoration work stalled.
Read morePitti Palace, 12 masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
Twelve masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay: this extraordinary event is the result of an exchange between the two important French and Italian museum institutes
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Carbon-14 tests could confirm Mona Lisa original model
Carbon-14 results on the remains of a woman thought to have sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting are due within days. Art historical scholars now believe that model was Lisa Gherardini, wife to the merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, who died in the Florence convent on July 15, 1542.
Read moreThousands of people joined the Pitchfork Movement
Thousands of people joined the so-called Pitchfork Movement to block or slow transportation in Florence and other cities in Italy. A group of truckers taking part in the nationwide strike to protest heavy taxes and high fuel costs.
Read moreIsraeli Righteous among Nations award to Florentine women
A Florentine woman who hid and fed a fugitive Jewish family for a year during World War II was formally honored Thursday with the Righteous Among Nations award from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial organization.
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