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A coffee, a drink, a pause for reflection and refreshment before or after visiting the museum. This feature of the new cafeteria will be built at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, whose final design was approved last session came on a proposal of the Cultural Sergio Givone.
Since 1998, Il Chiostro has celebrated this time of the year in Tuscany with their final workshop program of the year – The Autumn Arts Festival. The Autumn Arts Festival offers 3 separate workshops, Painting, Photography and Tuscan Cuisine, that all overlap during the 10-day celebration of the arts, the harvest, the wine and this wonderful region of Italy.
Fourteen Medici villas and gardens are included in the Unesco candidacy, which was sent to Unesco offices in Paris this year. Among the villas seeking World Heritage Status are Villa Careggi in Florence, where Lorenzo The Magnificent was born and died and which today is the property of the Tuscan Region.
A media tablet to discover the secrets of the Brancacci Chapel frescoes and the cycle of stories of St. Peter of Masolino and Masaccio: this is the “news” already tested successfully in the museum of Palazzo Vecchio, and now, thanks to a resolution proposed by Sergio Givone councilor for culture, is extended to the museum housed in the Carmine.
The International Union of Lawyers (UIA), the professional lawyers association created in Paris in 1927 and now open to all lawyers of the world, has chosen Florence for the 58th edition of the UIA Congress, the principal UIA event annually held in a different country in order to bring together lawyers from around the world.
New flooring and new underground waste collectors for via Martelli (Florence, Italy) after the pedestrian street. The inauguration was attended by the mayor Matteo Renzi and the president of Quadrifoglio Giorgio Moretti. The intervention in Via Martelli, at the cost of 800,000 euros, started last February and it is part of the overall redevelopment of the area of the Cathedral after the pedestrianization.
Segolene Royal has chosen Florence to leave behind the political disappointments and spend the holidays with his daughter Flora, one of four children born to the union with President Francois Hollande. “An idyllic setting to charge the batteries” writes the magazine Closer, by posting some photos of Segolene.
Fiorentina have described the deal with the Roma midfielder David Pizarro. The 34 year-old Chilean player is expected to Florence in the coming hours, he’s ready for a two year contract. There is also waiting for the findings goalkeeper Viviano, injured during the game with the club turkish. The first response is that Viviano will be out for two weeks.
After the excitement of the Olympic podium with two medals – silver and gold in London 2012 – for the shooter Florentine Niccolò Campriani also the joy of another award: “the Key of the City of Florence”, one of the highest honors the city, that the young champion has received from Mayor Matteo Renzi in the hall Clement VII inside Palazzo Vecchio.
The first thing done in Italy’s Olympic shooting gold Niccolò Campriani was a visit to relatives in Emilia affected by the earthquake. The Olympic champion has made a break with her parents near Carpi (Modena) where there are some cousins of his mother, who were the first to see the medals won by the close in London.