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Open day at the Uffizi Library with 78,600 titles

Arts

Uffizi Library (Sailko) - CCToday, Friday, March 30 the Uffizi Library will be open for an Open Day from 2 to 5 pm. During the extraordinary opening to the general public, the staff will be on hand to listen to the history of the Library and its collections and let see some of the most significant works, watch the process of binding of a book or a periodical collection, learn about the life of a magazine in the library, see the evolution of the book through time.

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Piazza Duomo, 3D model on Google maps

Travel

Piazza Duomo on Google MapsThe new Google Maps is has more details of the world’s major tourist places. Structures like the Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Italy, that were once just grey box on the screen, now get more dynamic shapes with more detailed 3D model. For example, the new design of the Piazza Duomo map has a “real” dome, whereas before, unless you studied Italian architecture, it was not possible to know the structure.

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Ambone, rejected projects of great architects

Arts

Santa_Maria_del_FioreThe realization of the “Ambone”, a sort of new pulpit, in the Duomo of Florence remains an open question. “The jury is not having reached a reasonable unanimity of judgment, held that none of the projects presented is worthy of achievement, while appreciating the efforts and intentions of artists and architects” participants, including Mario Botta, Massimo Lippi and Paul Henry Savelli Zermani.

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The exclusivity of Florence Accommodation facilities

Travel

Baptistery (Lucarelli)From Friday 2 March to Sunday 4 March 2012, Florence Convention Bureau and Firenze Fiera arranged a familiarization trip dedicated to high-level MICE operators to promote congressual and accommodation facilities of Florence. The 34 buyers, belonging to important agencies and companies that organize national and international events, came from UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and Belgium.

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