American actor, director and art historian Dr. Peter Weller endorses the #CrazyforPazzi international crowdfunding campaign for the restoration of the Pazzi Chapel loggia.
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Premier Matteo Renzi on Monday December 15, 2014, announced that Italy will stage a bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics.
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The Lost Towers of Florence by Chris Dobson is now available as second edition eBook. It describes the Florentine now-vanished towers: how they came to be built, why they have almost entirely disappeared, and where you can still get an impression of what these incredible buildings were like, if you know where to look.
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Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini and Chief Executive Officer Patrizio Di Marco will leave the Italian fashion house Gucci after Milan Fashion Week in February 2015.
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Ialy gets new chain bringing together top luxury hotels. Italian Hospitality Collection has resorts in Sardinia, Tuscany.
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U.S. Sports & Entertainment Management Students and Professor/lawyer to visit with sports organizations AS Roma and ACF Fiorentina for a 2 weeks.
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High-speed trains from Florence and other 3 major northern Italian cities will connect to Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci international airport.
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Standard & Poor’s has cut its Italy rating to BBB- da BBB and revised its outlook from negative to stable, the ratings agency said Friday December 5, 2014.
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On Thursday, December 4 at 4pm, Canadian-Italian mezzosoprano Diana Di Mauro burst into song in the Pazzi Chapel in the complex of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. Inspired by the space, Di Mauro sang five operatic pieces and a Christmas carol.
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Twenty famous Medici tapestries featuring the stories of Joseph the Jew are to be brought together in an itinerant exhibition to coincide with Milan Expo 2015.
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