Argentina’s Corporacion America has launched takeover bids for the companies that manage Italy’s Florence and Pisa airports. On Feb. 27 it acquired a 33.4 percent stake in ADF, the company that manages the Florence airport, for 40 million euros.
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MTV Awards 2014 will be back to Florence. The new edition of the Italian MTV show will no longer be at Piazzale Michelangelo but inside the Cascine Park.
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From 8th to 10th March 2014, the Stazione Leopolda in Florence will once again host Pitti Taste 9, the fair dedicated to excellence in taste with 300 exhibitors for three days of tasting, discoveries, shopping and special events.
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The “Un anno ad arte 2014” exhibition series opens with all this and much more with the show entitled, Once in a Lifetime. Treasures from the Archives and Libraries of Florence, on the calendar from 28 January to 27 April 2014 and hosted in the Sala Bianca in Palazzo Pitti.
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taly was jubilant Monday after its selection for best foreign film, Paolo Sorrentino’s Great Beauty, brought home the Academy Award, its eleventh in history and most ever for any country in the category.
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Lazio claimed their second straight Serie A victory with a 1-0 win over Fiorentina at Stadio Artemio Franchi.
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On March 7, 2014, the Advancing Women Artists Foundation, with the support of Syracuse University in Florence and the U.S. Consulate General in Florence, will commemorate International Women’s Day with a unique event called Women Artists and Wikipedia.
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Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting from 8 March to 20 July 2014 a major exhibition entitled Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism, devoted to the work of Pontormo and of Rosso Fiorentino, the two painters who were the most original adepts of the new way of interpreting art in that season of the Italian Cinquecento which Giorgio Vasari called the ‘modern manner’.
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The Carnival of Viareggio is one of the most famous events in Italy. It has a 141 years of history, with more than 400 parades and thousands of papier-mâché floats.
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Former captain Francesco Schettino has returned to the Costa Concordia wreck for the first time as part of his manslaughter trial. The Italian ship crashed into rocks and capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio in January 2012. In the disaster died 32 people.
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