The new route operated by British Airways between Florence and London City was inaugurated yesterday. The new BA flights from London City deliver direct to Florence Airport, Peretola, in just over two hours.
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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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100 Italian Baroque Paintings go to Nevada
The Nevada Museum of Art and arte italia bring 17th-century Florence, Italy, to life with a new exhibition in Reno, Nevada with the “Italian Baroque: Paintings from the Haukohl Family Collection”, opens March 29 at the Nevada Museum of Art.
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The FAI Spring Days are coming with 750 treasures
The FAI Spring Days are coming. On March 22 and 23, 2014 everyone can come into palaces, churches, castles, parks, 750 wonderful treasures in Italy usually closed to the public.
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Discovering Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
Until May 25, 2014, 36 major works from the Dutch Golden Age of the seventeenth century are exhibited at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna, 35 minutes by train from Florence, Italy. The highest attention is paid to the masterpiece by Jan Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring. More than 3,000 people a day and more than 4,000 during the weekends visit the exhibit in Bologna.
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Tuscan producers to Olio Capitale 2014 Fair
Olio Capitale 2014 confirms the key international event for quality oil, demonstrated by the presence of the Ambassador of Japan Masaharu Kohno and Curtis Cord the director of the American publication Olive Oil Times. The stand of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence was one of the most visited during the first day.
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Pontormo & Rosso fiorentino at Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting from 8 March to 20 July 2014 a major exhibition entitled Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism, devoted to the work of Pontormo and of Rosso Fiorentino, the two painters who were the most original adepts of the new way of interpreting art in that season of the Italian Cinquecento which Giorgio Vasari called the ‘modern manner’.
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Carnival, the upcoming events in Viareggio
The Carnival of Viareggio is one of the most famous events in Italy. It has a 141 years of history, with more than 400 parades and thousands of papier-mâché floats.
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Former Psychiatric Patients manage their beach
It is being opened on the coast of Tuscany the first beach entirely managed by former psychiatric-ward patients. The new seaside establishment is located in Tirrenia, and it will be called Big Fish.
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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”.
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