The cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Since that day the operations to remove fuel will end tomorrow evening. It was announced today by the mayor of the island of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, who is in Florence to take part in a press conference aimed at promoting tourism in the island.
Author: Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini
FAI Day, protected sites will be open this week end
FAI Day of Spring celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. More than 6.5 million Italian have taken part in this popular festival since its inception. The appointment is scheduled on Saturday March 24 and Sunday March 25. The event is a national show of art and beauty dedicated to everyone who cares about Italian cultural and natural heritage and is set in hundreds of unique locations, many of which are usually off limits to the public.
Myths and stories in Reinassance maiolica
This coming spring (May 16th-September 16th), the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy, proposes an exhibition dedicated to Renaissance “istoriata” maiolica, the tin-glazed earthenware featuring narrative scenes and/or figurative subjects, which dates from this period, and its direct dependency on literary, historical and figurative sources.
Viva Vino LA: we report, you… drink!
Viva Vino LA is coming in May (14-19). It is the largest Italian wine event staged on the US West Coast. From seminars to tastings to dinners, Viva Vino LA offers an exceptional array of events for consumers and trade to experience Italian wines made with native grapes. Florence Daily News will report with live news and a special section dedicated to the event.
The Oscar winner Benigni will read Dante Alighieri
The next summer, the Florentine actor and Oscar winner Roberto Benigni, will read again the Divine Comedy to his fellow citizens in Florence. It is the result reached in a secret meeting between the mayor Matteo Renzi and Lucio Presta, the agent of Tuscan actor and director.
The Diocese to stop the Leonardo’s research
The risk is to “destroy the overall effect of the Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio, which is one of the masterpieces of Florentine Mannerist decorative second ‘500”. The warning came from the historian, Monsignor Timothy Verdon, Director of the Office of Religious Art and Cultural Heritage of Ecclesiastical Diocese of Florence.
Casentino golf club will be implemented
Casentino Golf Club, on the boarders of the Casentino National Park, one hour by car from Florence, will be implemented. Works are in progress on the hole 3, 4, 9 and 10. They will be ready for seeding at the end of August 2012. Golfers will play these holes next spring 2013. The course to that date will be made by 15 holes.
Galleria dell’Accademia, Art returns to art
Art returns to Art is an expression as the title of an exhibition to be held at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence (May 8th -November 4th) means embracing the principle whereby, though occurring with different modalities through time and despite the inevitable fractures that mark its development, all of art unfolds from a single root which is articulated in the different territories of our culture.
Uffizi, the tapestries and the precious fabrics
The tapestries exhibition (20 March – 3 June, 2012) purposes to acquaint Uffizi Gallery goers with a precious section of its collections, one whose old and noble fame has been declining due to a decades-long absence from areas open to the public. Much more than other manufactures, tapestries are works of art relentlessly consumed by time.
Fiorentina ko, hundreds of fans contesting managers
Hundreds of Fiorentina fans gathered outside the Franchi stadium, the height of the grandstand, contesting team and purple managers after the defeat against Juventusto 0-5. Ahead of them fed the deployment of police in riot gear. The fans are chantingchants against the team and the Della Valle family. Launched smoke bombs, firecrackers and objects.