Research is under way in Florence to find a British tourist suddenly disappeared from on August 17. The woman, Diane Howell, 48, was seen for the last time in Piazza Santa Croce. She was with a group, then she turned away from it and no one has seen her more.
Author: Jamie Lorenzini
Hottest summer ever in Florence: marked 40°C
The latest, dubbed Caligula, led the ministry of health to issue a red alert early this week for several Italian cities, including Florence, where temperatures were expected to hit more than 40 degrees Celsius. Still, record-keepers say this year’s heat has not beaten the 2003 mark for heat.
Women-basket, Texas A&M vs All Star Italy
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team began action on its summer tour of Italy with a hard-fought, 61-57 loss to All-Star Italy on Sunday evening. Texas A&M is scheduled to play All-Star Italy again on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in Florence. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. Florence time.
KME, president Salvatore Orlando died at 55
A heart attack cause dead, at his home in Florence, of Salvatore Orlando, 55, president of metallurgical group KME, a pan-European industrial group with a leading position in the global market for copper and copper alloy products. ounded in 1886 as “SMI Società Metallurgica Italiana”, KME is today an industrial group with head offices in Florence and Europe-wide operations, with a leading position in the world copper processing industry.
New on-line store: choose your personal gifts
Not only books, but even every kind of gift. Now you can choose the best articles from Florence, Italy. Articles from the city has enchanted millions of people from all over the world in a new on-line store: “Florence Bookstore and Gifts” thanks to the collaboration between Florence Daily News and Amazon, the largest store in the world.
Piece of frame detaches in the centre: no injured
Scared but fortunately no injuries this morning in the center of Florence: around 12, a piece of cornice broke away from a building in Via de ‘Lamberti, in the heart, and fell to the ground.
Discover our new on-line bookstore by Amazon
There’s something new on line. Its name is Florence Bookstore: it offers the best titles on the subject selected by the contributors of Florence Daily News, the number 1 english news site in Florence, Italy. Once chosen, among thousands of titles, you can buy the book and wait for it to your house, thanks to the collaboration between Florence Daily News and Amazon, the largest bookstore in the world.
“Giant of the desert”, hot days in Tuscany
The seventh heat wave this summer 2012 is coming to Italy. The anticyclone “Giant of the desert” coming from the inland Moroccan embraces many European countries. According to the expert Francesco Nucera, it will be an exceptional situation not so much for the intensity but mostly for extent and duration.
25 mln euros for the future of the Cascine
35-specific projects for the future of the Cascine, by 2013 to change the face of the historical park of the city and make it one of the main places of attraction in the Florence area. The City Council approved in its last meeting the resolution that makes 35 proposals integral part of the Masterplan for the park.
Battle of Anghiari, Nat Geo to stop the research
National Geographic notes that the research project for the Battle of Anghiari is suspended “until further notice”. It is what we read in a note of the Nat Geo Society that sponsors the research of the hidden fresco by Leonardo Da Vinci. The research has been conducted by Maurizio Seracini, on the east wall of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.