Opens today in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy, the tribute to Jackson Pollock, the American shadow of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the 450′ anniversary of the Italian genius’ death.
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Tag: Palazzo Vecchio
New discoveries during Palazzo Vecchio’s digs
Archeologists in Florence, Italy, uncover a corridor in the Roman theatre under Palazzo Vecchio. The “Vomitorium” served 15,000 ancient theatre-goers. Look at the photogallery.
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The Battle by Bizhan Bassiri exhibited in Palazzo Vecchio
The Battle of Bizhan Bassiri is exhibited for residents and tourists at the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio. The imposing canvas will be in Florence, Italy, until April 6th.
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The new Logo of the City unveiled in Florence
Fabio Chiantini, Florentine graphic, is the winner of the International contest launched in July to create a new brand of Florence.
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When Margaret Thatcher came to Florence to visit the Corridoio Vasariano
Margaret Thatcher died at 87. Read the Margaret Thatcher’ speech at Anglo-Italian Summit in Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy, in 1986. After the international meeting she visited the Uffizi Gallery, the Corridio vasariano and Palazzo Vecchio.
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Marrying in Florence is a dream come true
Marrying in Florence is the dream of many foreign people like Americans, British, Japanese, South Americans who come to Florence to legally marry. Now it is possible to legally wed open air and in the magnificent Garden of the Roses and in other beautiful places in the heart of the Tuscan city.
Read moreA new cafeteria in Palazzo Vecchio
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.
Torre d’Arnolfo, 22,000 visitors in the first month
It’s a boom of visitors in the Tower of Arnolfo in Palazzo Vecchio: over 22 thousand people in a little more than a month. The tower, 95 meters high, was open to the public for the first time since June 24, Midsummer Day, and will remain open until the entire month of September.
Benigni received the honorary citizenship
This morning the Florentine actor Roberto Benigni has received the honorary citizenship of the city of Florence. The ceremony for the Academy Award winner Benigni was held in the Palazzo Vecchio. Benigni will return this summer to read the poems of Dante in Florence. In the fact, Benigni is an improvisatory poet, appreciated for his explanation and recitations of Dante’s Divina Commedia by memory.
Two professors as councilors for mayor Renzi
The economist Alessandro Petretto is the new councilor to the budget of the City of Florence. Sergio Givone also enters in the council, with the delegation to the culture. This was announced by Mayor Matteo Renzi, on the sidelines of the Confindustria Firenze. Petretto replaces Claudio Fantoni, who resigned last Friday in a dispute with the mayor sounded the alarm on the budget of the Palazzo Vecchio.