Florence Daily News

Uffizi Galleries reopen restored Lorena Staircase after eight years

The historic entrance to the museum’s exhibition route has been consolidated and reinstalled as it appeared in 1769.
Florence issues 30 fines in first weeks of new outdoor dining rules

Checks in the Unesco-listed historic centre targeted unauthorised structures, plastic covers and advertising. Businesses have until 30 April to apply for new concessions.
The Strange Seriousness of Eurovision

The Festival di Sanremo chose Sal Da Vinci with a neomelodic tune; Italy now wonders if this is the right image for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Florence’s Sant’Orsola complex to be fully accessible by 2028

New spaces for artisan workshops and neighbourhood services are expected to open in the short term.

Piaggio, the factory bikes inspired by California

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Business

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.

Watch the city bus ride up to Piazzale Michelangelo

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Life

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.

Leonardo’s colors under the Palazzo Vecchio wall

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

A discovery of black paint similar to that used in the Mona Lisa has spurred fresh hope that Leonardo da Vinci’s fabled lost fresco The Battle of Anghiari may be hidden behind a wall in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio.

A marathon circuit through the heart of Italian cities

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Travel

A weekend on the run? But no stress, for all the family and at very interesting rates? With Starhotels, you have it. The magical cities of Milan, Genoa, Trieste, Venice, Turin and Florence are hosting key marathon events, from 15th April to 25th November. Meaning great opportunities to spend a sporting weekend, full of entertainment and relaxation, with all the family, at rates starting from euro 73.

New research to find a possible Da Vinci fresco

Monday, March 12, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

Researchers coordinated by National Geographic Society said paint samples drawn from a wall behind Giorgio Vasari’s “The Battle of Marciano” may have the same chemical makeup as pigment used in da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and belong to the Renaissance master’s “The Battle of Anghiari” in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

Airports, a joint venture with Florence and Pisa

Monday, March 12, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Travel

To create a third airport core after Rome and Milan, probably with the future project of a joint-venture between Pisa and Florence. The governor of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, purchased from Monte dei Paschi di Siena the 5% of Airport of Florence share on Friday, just before Stock Exchange closed, spending about 5 million Euro.

Catania 1-0 Fiorentina, hard times are coming

Monday, March 12, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Sports

Catania beat Fiorentina 1-0 at the Massimino Stadium and the team is now dreaming of the European League. But for the viola team the hard times is coming… In the Serie A ranking, ACF Fiorentina remains at 32 points, just seven points to the last team.

Salami, cheese: the tastes of Taste 2012 are here

Sunday, March 11, 2012 Marco Gemelli Life

Salami, cheese, beer, chocolate, fish, vegetables and much more:”Taste” is on stage in Florence, Italy, a trip to the diversity of taste. Here there are some of the more curios products: there are sausages, raw and cooked, seasoned and fresh, flavored with spices or let cook for 22 hours. There is the “Cinta Senese”, a kind of pig reared outdoors, all black with a white stripe on the back.

Costa Concordia, the analysis of the discord

Saturday, March 10, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

The Ministry of Environment and Greenpeace are far from agreed on the data on water pollution to the island of Giglio where Costa Concordia wrecked last January 13. Greenpeace has warned that chemicals from a cruise ship wreck were oozing into the sea around Italy’s picturesque Giglio Island but the environment ministry said the levels were not significant.

The chocolate eggs of solidarity on the street

Saturday, March 10, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Life

Back again this year the campaign “The eggs of solidarity” Tuscany Cancer Association. The initiative will continue until Thursday, April 5. Make a small donation will be offered delicious chocolate eggs to support the Cancer Association of Tuscany (ATT) in its activities to home care cancer free.