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  • Florence loses nearly 1,000 shops in 13 years, study finds

    Retail decline continues across Tuscany, while tourism-related businesses expand, especially in Florence’s historic centre.

  • Restored Spinello Aretino triptych returns to Accademia

    The 1391 artwork is now on display until 11 May, following a two-year conservation project.

  • Florence extends Unesco rules to 2031, adds new business limits

    The city government moves to prolong and tighten rules aimed at protecting the historic centre’s commercial balance.

  • Florence completes Arno riverbank consolidation near Torrino Santa Rosa

    Florence completes Arno riverbank consolidation near Torrino Santa Rosa

    The €350,000 project strengthens flood protection in the Oltrarno area and opens the way for new public and cultural developments along the river.

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Pitti W, opening the women’s world

Friday, January 6, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Business

Pitti W N.9, the Pitti Immagine fair-event devoted to special projects for women’s fashion will be held in Florence from 10 to 13 January 2012, concomitantly with Pitti Uomo 81.

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Consistory: red hat for archibishop Betori

Friday, January 6, 2012 Editorial Staff News

To help the Church in its mission the Holy Father announced a consistory for February 18th next, during which he will create 22 new Cardinals. One of them is archibishop of Florence, Italy, Giuseppe Betori.

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Sales and Magi on Epiphnay

Friday, January 6, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Life

Shopping and historical events on Epiphnay in Florence, Italy. Even this year to celebrate the feast, January 6, the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence (Italy) organizes a reenactment of the Magi. It’s a shopping day too.

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Ricci and Vettriano, the new man collection

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Business

The beaches of Versilia and Atlantic Ocean are the backdrop to the works of Jack Vettriano and the clothes of the new collections of Stefano Ricci. The Florentine fashion house of haute couture, 40 years in business, own 22 boutiques in the world, presents the new catalog in view of Pitti Immagine Vettriano’s paintings.

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Science, Russian quasi-crystals have alien past

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

Russian quasicrystals may have an alien past. “We present evidence that a rock sample found in the Koryak Mountains in Russia and containing icosahedrite, an icosahedral quasicrystalline phaseis part of a meteorite, likely formed in the early solar system,” said Luca Bindi, who works at the University of Florence, Italy.

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Pitti Bimbo, elegance and tradition

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Business

Over 510 collections, more than 200 of which are from abroad, 8,300 buyers and a total of over 10,000 visitors at the last winter edition: these figures confirm Pitti Bimbo’s role as the only trade fair in the world that presents a complete overview of children’s fashions.

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Falling debris in the tunnel at Fortezza, road closed

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Travel

From this morning has been closed a roadway in the tunnel under Viale Fratelli Rosselli, near to the Fortezza da Basso, where the event Pitti Uomo will begin Tuesday, January 10th.

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ADF, almost 2 million passengers in 2011

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini Travel

Growth in passenger traffic in December at the airport of Florence. The performance of the number of passengers showed a positive 4.5%, compared to the same period of 2010. A total of 1,906,099 passengers recorded in 2011, up almost 10% over the previous year.

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“Italian-Kuwaiti” against Iranian provocations

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

The Kuwaiti-Italian Friendship Society has urged the Italian government to take a political action at the European level about the Iranian provocations causing instability in the Arabian Gulf, asserting its solidarity with Kuwait.

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A big stone falls down from the Column of the abundance

Thursday, January 5, 2012 Jamie "Florence" Lorenzini News

A stone of about 80 pounds and 50 inches in diameter fell off the Column o abundance that supports the statue in piazza della Repubblica in the center of Florence. At the foot of the column, there is usually a step where tourists and florentins stop. Because of the rain, at the time of falling down there was no one.

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