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Chianti Classico sales up 10% in 2012, thanks mainly to exports. An upward trend that’s consolidated after somewhat smaller growth in 2011 (+4% from 2010). The United States, Germany and Canada are, in order, the Black Rooster’s biggest markets.
Read moreTo honour Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici the historic parade of the “Florentine Republic” will start at 10.40 am at the “Palagio di Parte Guelfa”, then continue on the central streets accompanying the municipal authorities to the Medici Chapels where they pay a floral tribute to the tomb of the Elettrice Palatina.
Read moreAfter restoration work, the Renaissance-era Rucellai Chapel with its tiny architectural model of the Temple of the Holy Sepulchre by Leon Battista Alberti will reopen to the public on Saturday.
Read moreGiant reproductions of Michelangelo’s David and the Venus de Milo are raising eyebrows in the Japanese town of Okuizumo because of their oversize nude bodies.
Read moreThe “Casa di S. Andrea” in Percussina, fraction of San Casciano, along with several farm complexes, was owned by the family of the Writer Nicolò Machiavelli, secretary of the Florentine Republic in the years between 1498 and 1512, is one of the greatest and most interesting figures of the Renaissance.
Read moreIn January the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), at the European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, released a policy report on European Union Competencies in Respect of Media Pluralism and Media Freedom.
Read moreA piece of a 16th-century fresco fell from the ceiling of a corridor in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery on Wednesday morning, during the opening times of the Florentine museum. The piece has a diameter of around 30 centimeters and fortunately did not hit any visitors.
Read moreBenvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571), sculptor of the Perseus in the Loggia degli Uffizi in Florence and of the famous salt-cellar (known as Saliera) made for Francis I, speaks of the home and farm purchased in Vicchio in his autobiographical memoirs.
Read moreNew York University Florence in collaboration with the Assessore of Youth Policies of the Comune di Firenze presents the sixth film series dedicated to Italian Cinema focusing on contemporary Italian Identity. Cinema Giovane is an insightful way to study the evolution of Italian culture, history, and society.
Read morePill-shaped disks found in an ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany were used to create medicinal eye-drops, researchers at the University of Pisa say. The research, led by Erika Ribechini at the University of Pisa, will be published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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