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Clean water: Tuscany’s blue-flag beaches for 2017

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Editorial Staff Travel

Liguria, with 27 locations, is followed, as last year, by Tuscany (19) and the Marche (17) for the regions with the most Blue Flag beaches.

The Giro d’Italia will arrive in Florence in its 100th year

Thursday, March 9, 2017 Editorial Staff Sports

The Giro d’Italia celebrates its centenary edition in 2017. The 11st stage will travel to Florence on May 17, 2017.

Disney Cruise will include Italy for the first time

Thursday, February 23, 2017 Editorial Staff Travel

First-time visits for Disney Cruise Line will include Italian destinations for the first time as parts of its summer 2018 itinerary.

Anteprime di Toscana (credit: Toscana Notizie)

Tuscany’s wines more popular than ever abroad

Saturday, February 11, 2017 Editorial Staff Business

Tuscany’s wines more popular than ever abroad and sales by 16 Consortia top one billion. The Region of Tuscany presented Anteprime di Toscana 2017 at the Fortezza da Basso. The US, Germany and Canada are the major customer markets.

Tuscan wine on sale to the world at 5000 meetings

Thursday, February 9, 2017 Editorial Staff Business

Beginning on February 9, 2017, BuyWine, the sector’s broadest-reaching commercial initiative, returns to the Fortezza da Basso. Organic production is on the rise, Russian buyers are back.

The first European Francigena Marathon on the Via Francigena in Italy, following the route that Sigeric took, to be undertaken as an exclusively walking event on June 4th, 2017.

Francigena Marathon to be scheduled on June 4, 2017

Sunday, February 5, 2017 Editorial Staff Sports

The first marathon on the via Francigena in Italy, following the route that Sigeric took, to be undertaken as an exclusively walking event June 4th, 2017.

Alessandro Lanzoni at the Empoli Jazz Winter and Spring Festival

Empoli Jazz Festival attracts the enthusiasts

Friday, February 3, 2017 Editorial Staff Life

The Empoli Jazz Festival 2017 edition starts on February 12th and goes on until May, with six dates shared among the Auditorium in Palazzo Pretorio, the La Perla cinema-theatre and the Excelsior theatre.

The Tuscan mystery of the Resurrection fresco

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Editorial Staff Arts

Restoration work on Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection has revealed that the painting was originally created elsewhere and moved to its current location.