From the 4th of July to the 2nd of August, Florence will host the 19th Florence Youth Festival with more than 1.000 musicians.
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Tag: Loggia dei Lanzi
World Autism Awareness Day in Florence
The seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day is April 2, 2014. Every year, autism organizations around the world celebrate the day with unique fundraising and awareness-raising events.
Read moreLoggia dei Lanzi, tourist takes finger from Pio Fedi’s statue
Florence cultural authorities on Friday moved to repair Pio Fedi’s Rape of Polyxena in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the central Piazza della Signoria following the removal of a finger in the latest act of vandalism against the statue.
Read moreFollow the tracks of Cellini in the Tuscan countryside
Benvenuto Cellini (1500 – 1571), sculptor of the Perseus in the Loggia degli Uffizi in Florence and of the famous salt-cellar (known as Saliera) made for Francis I, speaks of the home and farm purchased in Vicchio in his autobiographical memoirs.
Read moreA statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi damaged
Today, at 8 am, a body monitoring (“Friends of the Earth”) in the Loggia dei Lanzi found the phalanx of a finger of the left hand of the sculpture by Pio Fedi depicting “The Rape of Polyxena” had been removed. All fingers of this hand are product additions made necessary by repeated acts of vandalism (the last in March 2009).
New monitoring for the “Rapt of the Sabine”
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.