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  • WWII soldier missing in Tuscany identified after 81 years ahead of Italy’s Liberation Day

    The story of a U.S. soldier missing in the Tuscan mountains since 1944 has been resolved decades later, linking Florence to the wider memory of the Allied campaign that helped liberate Italy.

  • Vespa turns 80: Tuscany celebrates the global success of an Italian icon

    From its first prototype in post-war Italy to a worldwide symbol of design and mobility, Vespa celebrates its 80th anniversary with events in Tuscany and beyond.

  • Florence to mark Liberation Day with official ceremony at Palazzo Vecchio

    The city will commemorate the 81st anniversary of Italy’s Liberation on Saturday, 25 April 2026, with institutional events, memorials and cultural initiatives across Florence.

  • Florence opens Maggio Musicale Festival with The Death of Klinghoffer

    The contemporary opera by John Adams inaugurates the 88th edition of the festival, drawing attention for its subject and staging.

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Marchionne in Florence: Renzi driving a foreign car, but it’s our fault

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Editorial Staff Business

Fiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne visits Tuscan capital  for a meeting of the Florentine chapter of the national industry group Confindustria.

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Dan Brown in Florence: “Dante invented hell”

Thursday, June 6, 2013 Editorial Staff Life

Today, at the event #repidee2013 in Palazzo Vecchio, Brown paid tribute to the city and its most famous son, mediaeval poet Dante Alighieri, whose work “The Divine Comedy inspired me  for Inferno.In some ways I think Dante invented hell,” Brown said.

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News Sars, the first Italian case found in Tuscany

Friday, May 31, 2013 Editorial Staff News

There is a first case of a new coronavirus, also known as New Sars, in Italy. The patient is a 45 year old foreigner who lives in Italy, and he was recently in Jordan.

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Interview to the American tourist stabbed in Florence

Friday, May 31, 2013 Editorial Staff News

Yesterday morning Don Alan Brennan, the american tourist 68 years old who stabbed the 21st of May in piazza Duomo in Florence among people, he left the hospital Santa Maria Nuova.

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Tirrenia seaside

Former Psychiatric Patients manage their beach

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Editorial Staff Travel

It is being opened on the coast of Tuscany the first beach entirely managed by former psychiatric-ward patients. The new seaside establishment is located in Tirrenia, and it will be called Big Fish.

 

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American tourist stabbed in the centre of Florence

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Editorial Staff News

A 68-year-old American tourist, Don Alan Brennan according to the Italian website Firenze Post, was stabbed in Florence’s main square in front of the famed Duomo cathedral on Tuesday.

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Italian film actor Carlo Monni has died

Monday, May 20, 2013 Editorial Staff News

Italian film actor Carlo Monni, 70, has died. The Florentine character actor played Roberto Benigni’s sidekick toward the beginning of the Academy Award-winning comedian’s career in the late 1970’s.

 

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Between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, an unusual exhibition

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Editorial Staff Life

The importance of Arts for Florence is an essential element to understand the development of the city. Between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the ancient guilds managed a part of the power together with the commission of figurative themes.

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Tuscany 2013, spring and summer in music

Sunday, May 12, 2013 Editorial Staff Life

A spring and summer 2013 filled with music in Tuscany. Andrea Bocelli will be performing in July, on the 13th at Teatro del Silenzio. On July 16, Skunk Anansie will be at the Obihall.

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EU political and business leaders call for solidarity

Thursday, May 9, 2013 Editorial Staff News

EU political and business leaders call for solidarity, political union in Europe Northern European countries must do more to support southern EU member states, Emma

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WWII soldier missing in Tuscany identified after 81 years ahead of Italy’s Liberation Day

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Florence to mark Liberation Day with official ceremony at Palazzo Vecchio

Monday, April 20, 2026

BUSINESS

Cooking schools, ATMs restricted as Florence rules for centre take effect

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Nutella Highlights Florence

A Jar in Orbit, a Tribute on Earth: Nutella Highlights Florence

Sunday, April 12, 2026

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Digital microneedles turn into QR codes for real-time health monitoring

Saturday, April 18, 2026

University of Pisa radiation sensors to fly on NASA’s Artemis II mission

Monday, April 13, 2026

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Vespa turns 80: Tuscany celebrates the global success of an Italian icon

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Florence opens Maggio Musicale Festival with The Death of Klinghoffer

Monday, April 20, 2026

SPORTS

Florence Half Marathon draws 6,000 runners through city centre

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Abetone ski lifts to stay open through Easter, season extended to mid-April

Thursday, March 26, 2026

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Greece’s Social Media Ban for Under 15s Signals a Necessary Shift

Greece’s Social Media Ban for Under 15s Signals a Necessary Shift

Friday, April 10, 2026

Artists on the Journalist’s Couch

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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The Nouvelle Carte d’Europe dressée pour 1870

L’Europa come creatura nervosa

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Il rischio idrogeologico divide Regione Toscana e Comune a Signa

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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