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This is what coach Delio Rossi had to say in his pre-match press conference ahead of tomorrow’s match against Juventus. How are Behrami and Jovetic? “We’ll see after the last training session, but more no than yes,” said Rossi.
UNA Hotels & Resorts presents the 2012 UNA Golf Cup tournament competition that will be played on ten of Italy’s finest golf courses. Now in its third edition, the tournament organized by UNA, will tee off in Tuscany on 15 April at the Golf Club Montecatini in Pistoia. The next round will be played at the Golf Club Bologna, starting on 28 April.
There ‘s another clue that would indicate traces of colorbeneath the Battle of Scannagallo of Vasari’s Palazzo Vecchio inFlorence, are the traces of the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci. The new evidence is explained by Maurizio Seracini, head of research at the Master’s lost painting of Vinci, on the Italian web site of the National Geographic Socieity.
As of 31 December 2011, the Salvatore Ferragamo Group has posted Total Revenues of 986.4 million Euros, a 26.2% increase, at current exchange rates, over the 781.6 million Euros recorded in FY 2010, showing significant growth in all geographical areas, product lines and distribution channels. Revenue growth at constant exchange rate has been 24.1%
Finding the lost da Vinci, which follows scientist and art enthusiast Maurizio Seracini as he looks for da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari, will show on Monday in Palazzo Vecchio. Professor Seracini will present the findings of his research at the presence of Terry Garcia, executive vice president for the National Geographic Society. On this reaearch NGTV has scheduled a special worldwide video in March.
“Xenophobia urban responses” will be held in Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy. The third annual transatlantic dialogue on immigration will see the participation of Dario Nardella, deputy major of the city of Florence, Badara Seck, singer, Izzedin Elzir, imam in Florence, Muzaffar Chishti, director of MPI office at NYU school of law, Nicola Solimano, Fondazione Michelucci and Fatima Shama, NYC commissioner of immigrant affair.
“Domes in the World”, the Scientific Congress will be held in Florence, Italy, from 19 to 23 March 2012. The congress is organized with the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. The idea at the basis of “Domes in the World” is to give a substantial contribution to intercultural dialogue through an international and interdisciplinary congress aimed at highlighting the significance of domes and their symbolic value from the perspective of different cultures.
Its name is “Adopt a Work of Art”. Everybody can be the patron for an artwork of the Museo deli Innocenti, Florence, Italy. From 2004 the museum of IDI has been undergoing a radical renovation process. For many years a multidisciplinary team comprising art historians and experts in the history of architecture, the history of childhood and museum educators, has prepared the museological project for the MUDI.
The Tuscany-based Piaggio Group is to open an Advanced Design Center in the USA, in Pasadena, California. The announcement was made yesterday in Miami by Group Chairman and CEO Roberto Colaninno, during the Piaggio Group Americas convention attended by more than three hundred US and Canadian dealers and the Piaggio Group distributors based in South America.
A bus ride up to Piazzale Michelangelo gives a superb view over Florence, then we walk down to Ponte Vecchio. Afternoon train ride to Pisa to see the tower and Old Town. Designed in 1869 by Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi, Piazzale Michelangelo offers panoramic views of Florence and the Arno valley and is a popular spot with locals and tourists.