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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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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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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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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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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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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 moreThe 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 moreThis famous Florentine ceremony dates back to the distant times of the First Crusade, launched to free the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
Read moreTo 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.
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New direct air link between Florence and Prague. The flight will be carried out from April 1 by Czech Airlines with four weekly flights and prices from € 119 round trip. The new flight will also connect with other destinations like Moscow, Budapest and Warsaw. In our report David Vitàsek, country manager for Czech Airlines, speaks about the new flight.
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