One of the most famous Bond girls, Eva Green, sips Campari cocktails in the striking new Campari 2015 calendar images.
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Two 17th-century letters discovered in the small hill town of Urbino, in the Marche region.
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Two surgeons at the Careggi teaching hospital in Florence used Google Glass during an operation to extract a human liver for transplant.
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The date is set for the 7th edition of BTO on December 2 and 3 at Fortezza da Basso in Florence. The event is dedicated to travel 2.0.
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From November 17 to December 19, 2014, Opera di Santa Croce will be running an international crowdfunding campaign to restore the loggia of the Pazzi Chapel. This is the first ever Kickstarter campaign by a major cultural institution in Florence, Italy.
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Today within the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta mission, the Philae lander touched down on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. The Italian technical and scientific contribution among Research Institutes and Industry has been coordinated by ASI, the Italian Space Agency.
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Botticelli’s Venus will not be loaned from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery to Turin’s Reggia di Venaria for the Milan Expo 2015 world’s fair, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said.
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An exhibit celebrating 19th century Italian masters of the Macchiaioli movement opened Friday October 3, 2014, at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
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The third edition of the UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries will take place from 2 to 4 October 2014 in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
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The head of Florence’s museums, Cristina Acidini, said Monday September 22, 2014 her decision to quit after a 38-year-long career as a culture ministry official was taken earlier this month because of planned reforms reorganizing the management of Italy’s museums.
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