For centuries, we live in the future. With this slogan the Tuscany Region presents itself to visitors at Expo 2015. A Tuscany recognizable, but different from the usual cliches, open until May 28 inside Expo2015.
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Il Drappellone del Palio di Siena dipinto da Rogai
Per dipingere il Drappellone del Palio di Siena dell’Assunta è stata scelta l’artista fiorentina Elisabetta Rogai, famosa per le sue tinte cromatiche fatte con i frutti della terra, a iniziare dai dipinti con il vino denominati eno-arte.
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750 students on memorial train to Auschwitz
A group of 750 students and teachers on Monday January 19, 2015, boarded a memorial train from Florence to Auschwitz.
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IHC brings new top luxury Hotels in Tuscany
Ialy gets new chain bringing together top luxury hotels. Italian Hospitality Collection has resorts in Sardinia, Tuscany.
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Tuscan Pre-Impressionists arrived to NYC
An exhibit celebrating 19th century Italian masters of the Macchiaioli movement opened Friday October 3, 2014, at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
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Julia Roberts spent few days in Tuscany for filming
Julia Roberts was in Tuscany this summer for filming.
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Pontormo’s birthplace and the modern manner
Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo, (Pontorme, Empoli 1494 – Florence 1556) is among the greatest artists of Italian art: the emblem of that extraordinary season that Giorgio Vasari called the “modern manner”.
Read moreNature hikes in Florence along the Renaissance ring
The Renaissance Ring is a hiking and mountain bike proposal: 178 km around Florence, focussing on Filippo Brunelleschi’s Dome, which is the Cathedral’s Dome, through woodland and cultivated country.
Read moreOn March 23th and 24th comes back the FAI day of spring
To celebrate the twentieth birthday of the initiative, 700 cultural sites in all Italian regions will be open and it is possible to visit hundreds of special sites, that are often inaccessible to the public.
Read moreAn idea of beauty in Florence
An Idea of Beauty, on view at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, sets out to explore the work of eight contemporary international artists and will encourage visitors to reconsider the concept of beauty and to question not only the ‘need’ for it but also its function, value and purpose.
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