This morning it was dismantled and taken away the liberty fountain for natural water in Piazza della Signoria. The Superintendence for the artistic and architectural heritage has requested the removal considering it ugly, unattractive in the context of the magnificent location.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8: free entrance for women to all public art sites as Uffizi or Galleria dell’Accademia. But from 17 January 2012, for a period of approximately three months, the Chapter Room, in the Uffizi gallery, with the fresco of the Crucifixion by Beato Angelico, will be closed to the public for extraordinary maintenance work.
From next Monday, March 12, 2012, starts the new monitoring session on “The Rapt of the Sabine”, Giambologna’s sculpture placed under the Loggia dei Lanzi and the competence of Superintendence for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the Museums of city of Florence.
A new concert into the historic walls of Palazzo Davanzati in Via Porta Rossa 13, Florence, Italy. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, at 16, when there will be a concert of music from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century composer Filippo Gragnani from Livorno and Genoa’s famous artist, Niccolò Paganini.
Beyonce and Gwyneth Paltrow are planning to take a yoga-based break with their kids in Tuscany, Italy. The news was reported today by The Sun and some American newspapers and websites specializing in music and entertainment. Beyonce could travel with the two months-old daughter Blue Ivy, while 39-year-old Gwyneth will come to Tuscany with the daughter Apple.
On 7 March Wolfgang Schäuble, German Minister of Finance, will give a lecture on “Europe – Economic and Institutional Perspectives”. The lecture and debate are organised in the framework of the EUI’s Debating Europe series and will take place in the Refectory of the Badia Fiesolana, on Wednesday 7 March at 19:15.
Terra Futura is a fair-meeting organized in a exhibition area, getting bigger and more articulate every year, and in a very high level program of cultural initiatives, meetings, seminars, workshop; and also laboratories and shows. This year the fair will be held in Florence, Italy, at Fortezza da Basso, May 25-27, 2012. Free entrance.
It ends 2-0 the match Fiorentina vs Cesena at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, Italy. The viola team come back to the victory afyter suffered 3 consecutive defeats. To decide the match were needed Moras’s own goal and the goal of Nastasic. With Boruc holding the ball safely in the final minute of the match, Fiorentina took the 3 points and moved out to the relegation zone.
Florence is a tourist town, but most retailers do not agree on Sunday openings. Trade unions protested yesterday: they have demonstrated in major cities across the Country, also in Florence. Even the Catholic Church voiced its support on Sunday as part of a Europe-wide campaign against allowing more businesses to stay open on Sundays.
On April 27, 21 bottles of 111 in the collection of “Harvest of Ornellaia 2009 Artist Equilibrium” by Ornellaia will be part of a charity auction at a gala dinner in Hong Kong. During the evening auction at Sotheby’s it will be presented one Salmanazar, 10 imperial and 10 double magnums made unique by the hands of the artist Zhang Huan. The proceeds will be donated to “H2 Foundation for Arts and Education, Luo Zhongli Scholarship”.
