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It’s time to cook, in Tuscan seaside: on Thursday, August 23th, there will be the 20th edition of the cooking-show “A tavola sulla spiaggia” (“Lunch on the beach”) in Forte dei Marmi. Promoted by Gianni Mercatali, the event will feature twelve contestants whose dishes will create the menu of summer 2012.
The IX Florence Biennale 2013 will take place at the historic Fortezza da Basso from November 30 to December 8, 2013, in Florence, Italy. Each edition of the Florence Biennale, founded in 1997, is one of the largest events representing artists from around the world, with participants from 80 countries and more than 2500 works displayed.
Research is under way in Florence to find a British tourist suddenly disappeared from on August 17. The woman, Diane Howell, 48, was seen for the last time in Piazza Santa Croce. She was with a group, then she turned away from it and no one has seen her more.
The latest, dubbed Caligula, led the ministry of health to issue a red alert early this week for several Italian cities, including Florence, where temperatures were expected to hit more than 40 degrees Celsius. Still, record-keepers say this year’s heat has not beaten the 2003 mark for heat.
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team began action on its summer tour of Italy with a hard-fought, 61-57 loss to All-Star Italy on Sunday evening. Texas A&M is scheduled to play All-Star Italy again on Tuesday, Aug. 21, in Florence. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. Florence time.
A heart attack cause dead, at his home in Florence, of Salvatore Orlando, 55, president of metallurgical group KME, a pan-European industrial group with a leading position in the global market for copper and copper alloy products. ounded in 1886 as “SMI Società Metallurgica Italiana”, KME is today an industrial group with head offices in Florence and Europe-wide operations, with a leading position in the world copper processing industry.
Not only books, but even every kind of gift. Now you can choose the best articles from Florence, Italy. Articles from the city has enchanted millions of people from all over the world in a new on-line store: “Florence Bookstore and Gifts” thanks to the collaboration between Florence Daily News and Amazon, the largest store in the world.
Scared but fortunately no injuries this morning in the center of Florence: around 12, a piece of cornice broke away from a building in Via de ‘Lamberti, in the heart, and fell to the ground.
There’s something new on line. Its name is Florence Bookstore: it offers the best titles on the subject selected by the contributors of Florence Daily News, the number 1 english news site in Florence, Italy. Once chosen, among thousands of titles, you can buy the book and wait for it to your house, thanks to the collaboration between Florence Daily News and Amazon, the largest bookstore in the world.
The seventh heat wave this summer 2012 is coming to Italy. The anticyclone “Giant of the desert” coming from the inland Moroccan embraces many European countries. According to the expert Francesco Nucera, it will be an exceptional situation not so much for the intensity but mostly for extent and duration.