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.
Category: Life
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.
Watch the city bus ride up to Piazzale Michelangelo
A bus ride up to Piazzale Michelangelo gives a superb view over Florence, then we walk down to Ponte Vecchio. Afternoon train ride to Pisa to see the tower and Old Town. Designed in 1869 by Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi, Piazzale Michelangelo offers panoramic views of Florence and the Arno valley and is a popular spot with locals and tourists.
Salami, cheese: the tastes of Taste 2012 are here
Salami, cheese, beer, chocolate, fish, vegetables and much more:”Taste” is on stage in Florence, Italy, a trip to the diversity of taste. Here there are some of the more curios products: there are sausages, raw and cooked, seasoned and fresh, flavored with spices or let cook for 22 hours. There is the “Cinta Senese”, a kind of pig reared outdoors, all black with a white stripe on the back.
The chocolate eggs of solidarity on the street
Back again this year the campaign “The eggs of solidarity” Tuscany Cancer Association. The initiative will continue until Thursday, April 5. Make a small donation will be offered delicious chocolate eggs to support the Cancer Association of Tuscany (ATT) in its activities to home care cancer free.
“Out of Taste” in Florence, the essential guide
Time of tastings, in Florence: on March, from 7th to 10th our city will become the capital of Italian food & beverage, with the seventh annual “Taste”, a journey to discover the excellence and diversities of taste. There are many events – almost an hundred – around Florence for “Out of Taste”. Here there are some of the most important.
A risky heart operation in the last Perugini’s book
“A Tear in the Heart” (Con un buco nel cuore) by Sasha Perugini is the story of a woman who plays tough: never afraid, never complaining, not even when faced with a significant heart operation. The author, director of Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, tells her experience in Italian with self-irony and lightness even in the most dramatic moments.
Laura Pausini has rescheduled the concert
Laura Pausini, musicians, technicians and all the staff have estimated that it could not proceed with work because deeply affected by the disappearance of his colleague and friend Matteo, who died tragically on the night of March 4 and March 5.
A classic concert in Palazzo Davanzati
A new concert into the historic walls of Palazzo Davanzati in Via Porta Rossa 13, Florence, Italy. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, at 16, when there will be a concert of music from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century composer Filippo Gragnani from Livorno and Genoa’s famous artist, Niccolò Paganini.
Beyonce and Gwyneth, a yoga break in Tuscany
Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow are planning to take a yoga-based break with their kids in Tuscany, Italy. The news was reported today by The Sun and some American newspapers and websites specializing in music and entertainment. Beyonce could travel with the two months-old daughter Blue Ivy, while 39-year-old Gwyneth will come to Tuscany with the daughter Apple.