In addition to being a city of art, Florence is also a city
of fashion, as evidenced by the presence of numerous museums dedicated to
fashion and costume, such as the Costume Gallery at Palazzo Pitti, the Roberto
Capucci Foundation Museum at Villa Bardini, the Ferragamo and the Gucci Museum,...
Florence is beautiful and you should dedicate to its museums and attractions as much of your time as possible when you come in visit, but the rest of Tuscany has also a lot to offer. You can find so many wonderful little cities scattered among our hills, so if you’ve...
Steve
McCurry returns in town
with another exceptional exhibition, entitled Children, set up in the
very place in Florence that has been dealing with childhood for over 600 years:
the Istituto degli Innocenti in
Piazza Santissima Annunziata, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1419, a
masterful example of harmonic and rational...
The Arno river has always been a faithful friend to the Florentines,
allowing the proliferation of numerous activities along its banks, exploiting
every resource it made available. In particular, a city with an intense
building activity like Florence, needed a great quantity of building material,
and it is precisely to...
Raffaello Sanzio died
very young, he was only 37, but in his short life he managed to establish
himself as one of the most outstanding artists of the Renaissance, capable of masterfully interpreting a timeless ideal
of beauty and harmony.One
of his greatest masterpieces is the Madonna della Seggiola, painted...
The
concept of the Museum of Illusions
was born in 2015 in Zagreb, Croatia, and was then exported to various cities
around the world, also arriving in Italy, first in Milan then in Florence and
Rome.The
museum has opened inside Palazzo
Tornaquinci Della Stufa, a historic building, in via Borgo...
Florence is beautiful even in the rain, but when it shines under the spring sun it becomes something spectacular. It is then that you have to go out absolutely for a walk in the center, or along the bank of the river Arno or better still go to visit one...
Pan di Ramerino is a sweet bun typical of the Tuscan tradition, that
used to be prepared on Holy Thursday. "Ramerino" is a Tuscan
word from the 14th century with which the Florentines still call rosemary, the fundamental ingredient of Pan di
Ramerino, to which this preparation owes its unmistakable...
Florence is a city that has always done things
a little in its own way, as demonstrated by the fact that for 168 years it
celebrated the New Year on a different day than the rest of Italy.
The Florentine New
Year is celebrated on 25 March, the date
corresponding...
A
rocket welcomes visitors entering the Reaching for the Stars exhibition in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, and prepares them for
the journey to the stars of contemporary art.
A journey that also wishes to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in
Turin, one of the...
