The Tuscan Sun Festival and Tribeca Enterprises, the parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival foRobert De Nirounded by , Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff in lower Manhattan in 2002, announced today the list of world-class films to be featured as part of the film initiative, Tribeca Firenze. The newly established film program will have screenings 13 – 17 June in Florence’s Odeon Cinema, one of Italy’s most elegant and historic art noveau cinema-theatres located in the Palazzo Strozzino.
Category: Life
Madonna and the Boss, the concerts at the stadium
The American popstar Madonna will be in concert in Florence, Italy, on Saturday, June 16th. Madonna has been in concert in Florence just one time before the Wordl tour 2012. She performed the evening of September 6, 1987 at the Artemio Franchi stadium during the “Who’s That Girl Tour.”
Maggio Musicale on the theme of travel
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino helds its 75th edition on the theme of the voyage. Theatre, performers, and audience from Mitteleuropa to the important tour in South America (7-21 August 2012) in this year of the celebrations for Amerigo Vespucci on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of the Florentine explorer (1454 – 1512).
Gelato festival… taste Florence!
In Florence, the temperature is not so hot in recent days. But the city of Florence is ready for a “below zero” event: the Ice cream festival. Events and surprises in the village of homemade ice-cream and in the Sammontana Village from May 23-27, 2012.
Wine-made painting art exhibit at Viva Vino LA
A new offerings this year at Viva Vino LA. It includes a special wine-made painting art exhibit by Elisabetta Rogai and an advance two-week Italian Restaurant Week at participating restaurants. Rogai uses red and white wine without any other chemicals to paint her romantic, expressive depictions of women.
NYU, the Season at Villa La Pietra
This is the New York University season at Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy. Friday, June 15 – 10:15 AM Cinema Odeon Auf Wiedersehen, ‘Till We Meet Again, a Documentary followed by a special dialogue with Chelsea Clinton and Linda G. Mills. With La Pietra Dialogues. Thursday, June 21 – 7:30 PM Villa La Pietra – Shakespeare – Macbeth – The Continuum Company.
Italy’s historical and thriving wine culture
Viva Vino LA, the premiere Italian wine festival presented by the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, The North American Sommelier Association, and Please the Palate, makes its grand return to Los Angeles for a second year of illustrious and educational dinners, lectures, tastings and seminars May 14-19 at various locations.
Viva Vino starts tomorrow at Los Angeles, USA
Viva Vino LA, the premiere Italian wine festival presented by the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce West, The North American Sommelier Association, and Please the Palate, makes its grand return to Los Angeles for a second year of illustrious and educational dinners, lectures, tastings and seminars May 14-19 at various locations.
Best of Wine Tourism 2012: the winners
At the hall of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi Pistelli took the award ceremony of winners of the international Best of Wine Tourism 2012, now in its 9 th edition. It is the promoter of the Great Wine Capitals global network which includes nine cities in the world with a strong viticulture: Florence, Bordeaux, Bilbao, Christchurch, Cape Town, Mainz, Mendoza, Porto and San Francisco-Napa Valley.
Officine di SMN celebrates 400th anniversary
The eighteenth edition of “Artigiano e palazzo,” which will take place in Florence, Italy, May 11-13 , will also celebrate the 400th anniversary of the historic “Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella”, an historical Florentine “perfume factory” appreciated all over the world for its products.