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Recipes of the tradition: Christmas Stump Cake

It's not easy to end the Christmas lunch on a high note after tasting the most delicious family recipes. However, if you are looking for a dessert that is both tasty and beautiful to look at, you can’t go wrong with a great classic: Tronchetto di Natale (Christmas Stump).This dessert...

Green Line lights up Florence

The Green Line light festival, which since last year has taken the place of F – Light and illuminates the buildings symbol of Florence is back.This year's theme is The Winter Garden and invites us to focus on caring for the planet, which is our home and garden, too often...

The new Giunti Odeon

Ph: Giunti Odeon The historic Cinema Odeon in Florence is transformed and becomes Giunti Odeon, a multi-function space that will act as both a cinema and a bookshop.After several controversies and doubts that arose among the Florentine population during the renovation works, the 1,500 square meter space was inaugurated on...

The ghost of Baldaccio d'Anghiari

Every city has its own ghosts, and Florence certainly could not be the exception. There are stories about sightings of spirits in the Tuscan capital, like the one of Palazzo Budini-Gattai or Ginevra degli Almieri. The story we're going to tell you today is about one of the most famous:...

Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal at Palazzo Strozzi

Anish Kapoor, renowned British artist of Indian origin, has always had a close relationship with Italy. He has exhibited works in several Italian museums, such as the MAXXI in Rome and the Prada Foundation in Milan, he chose Venice to open his namesake Foundation inside Palazzo Manfrin and he even...

Florence Biennale 2023 - 14th edition

The Biennale internazionale d'arte contemporanea di Firenze, also known as the Florence Biennale, was founded in 1997 by the artist Pasquale Celona and his brother Piero and has been directed since 2015 by Jacopo Celona. It is held at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, but also includes collateral events...

The "Temptations, Torments, Trials and Tribulations" of Cecily Brown

Until February 4, 2024, in the rooms on the ground floor of the Museo Novecento and in Palazzo Vecchio it will be possible to admire over 30 works by one of the most important artists of contemporary art, Cecily Brown.The exhibition entitled “Temptations, Torments, Trials and Tribulations” displays paintings, drawings...

When the Carro Matto arrives in Florence

The fourth Saturday in September sees the Carro Matto (Crazy Cart) parade through the streets of the historic center of Florence, a tradition that has its roots in fourteenth-century Florence. At the time, the wine mostly came from the Chianti area, now known all over the world for the production...

The abundance of the form in Botero

The style of Fernando Botero Angulo, characterized by subjects with dilated and full forms, of caricatural appearance, is absolutely unmistakable.The artist developed this style in the 1950s after painting a "fat" mandolin in a still life with mandolin. Since then he will continue to paint men, women, animals and inanimate...

Curious Florence: buchette del vino

Walking down the streets of Florence you might have seen them: tiny arched shaped doors on the walls of buildings in the city center. Many wonder what they are, even some florentines don't know their history. They are called "buchette del vino" (litterally "wine holes"), closed with little wooden doors...

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