Florence Daily News

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.
Crowds gather across Florence to watch Frecce Tricolori flyover

Thousands gathered along the Arno as Italy’s national aerobatic team crossed the city in a reduced formation to mark the oath of 33 students at the Giulio Douhet Air Force school.
Digital microneedles turn into QR codes for real-time health monitoring

Researchers in Pisa have developed minimally invasive biosensors that convert biochemical data into a scannable QR code, opening new possibilities for personalised and wearable diagnostics.

“Giant of the desert”, hot days in Tuscany

Thursday, August 16, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

The seventh heat wave this summer 2012 is coming to Italy. The anticyclone “Giant of the desert” coming from the inland Moroccan embraces many European countries. According to the expert Francesco Nucera, it will be an exceptional situation not so much for the intensity but mostly for extent and duration.

25 mln euros for the future of the Cascine

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

35-specific projects for the future of the Cascine, by 2013 to change the face of the historical park of the city and make it one of the main places of attraction in the Florence area. The City Council approved in its last meeting the resolution that makes 35 proposals integral part of the Masterplan for the park.

Battle of Anghiari, Nat Geo to stop the research

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

National Geographic notes that the research project for the Battle of Anghiari is suspended “until further notice”. It is what we read in a note of the Nat Geo Society that sponsors the research of the hidden fresco by Leonardo Da Vinci. The research has been conducted by Maurizio Seracini, on the east wall of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

Battle of Anghiari, waiting for the Italian government

Monday, August 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

The mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi is ready to stop work on the research of the Battle of Anghiari, the lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, who may be under a fresco by Vasari, in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio. This was announced the same Renzi, who has now written a letter to the Minister for Cultural Heritage Lorenzo Ornaghi.

A new cafeteria in Palazzo Vecchio

Monday, August 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

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.

Autumn Arts Festival In Tuscany from October 25

Monday, August 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Life

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.

Unesco status for 14 Medici Villas in Tuscany

Sunday, August 12, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

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 Brancacci Chapel

Sunday, August 12, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Arts

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.

Florence wins the lawyer congress 2014

Friday, August 10, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Business

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 floor and new waste bins in via Martelli

Friday, August 10, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

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.