The battle of the bridge: a tradition in Pisa

On the 29th of June, there will be in Pisa the Battle of the Bridge. It is an historical waking demonstration, which is divided in two different moments: the Historical Procession, which is a sort of large military parade with more than 709 figurants, and the Battle on the Ponte di Mezzo, where the teams of the contending factions show their physical strenght creating a suggestive and impressing athmosphere.

The Battle of the Bridge is a very old tourney, whose first surely-documented edition

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Milano Moda Uomo presents new 2009 spring-summer collection

Once again high fashion is shown in Italy, once again the destination chosen to this purpose is the city of Milan.
Well, the Italian capital has been turned again into the meeting point of famous high fashion stylists who are there to show their 2009 spring-summer collections.

Starting from Saturday the 21st, the best prêt-à -porter clothing for men and the most famous accessories brands for spring-summer 2009, will be shown on Italian fashion runways until June 24th. According to the final program, published by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana - the body dealing with organization and management of this event - fashion shows started on Saturday 21st of June with Gaetano Navarra, during the same day followed by Missoni, Jil Santander and Versace. Sunday 22nd was the time of famous stylists such as Salvatore Ferragamo, Gianfranco Ferrè, Prada, Roberto Cavalli. Again, today Coveri, Biagiotti, Gucci, Moschino and Krizia, arriving to Tuesday the 24th, when you will find among the others, Armani, Fendi and Marni. Byblos will close the fair.

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A long weekend in Florence!!! The White Night, the Historic Football Match (Calcio Storico) and San Giovanni’s day

On Saturday the 21st of June, there will be the 13rd edition of the Florence’s White Night in the Oltrarno (the section of Florence on the other side of the Arno), which is one of the historical quarters of Florence.

“Nottarno” will be a long evening full of strictly free events, with the intent to go through the streets and the squares of the historical centre of Florence in a different way: from Santo Spirito square to Piazza della Passera, from via dei Bardi to Palazzo Pitti.

It will be an out-and-out celebration among music and tastings to suit everybody’s fancy and all-ages.

 Artisan workshops, stores, restaurants and pubs will be the backdrop of this wonderful night, that you will live toghether in the suggestive location of the city of Florence.

But the party does not end here. Who lives in Florence, but also who will have the possibility to stop over here for some day, will be able to attend two other important traditional manifestations of Florence: the fireworks of San Giovanni’s day and the final match of the Historical Football of Florence.

 The 24 of June is San Giovanni Battista’s day, the patron saint of Florence. As every year, there will be spectaculars fireworks, launched from Piazzale Michelangelo, to celebrate the feast of the patron San Giovanni the Baptist.

According to the tradition, Saint Giovanni became the patron of the city of Florence only with the complete conversion of the city to Christianity. Therefore, he already was it in the Lombard period.

To its honour, it was also rised the Baptistery. The character of San Giovanni dominated for centuries the city of Florence.Every year, on the 24th of June, the city of Florence celebrates the feast of its patron with a series of manifestations that attract the whole city.

Thereby, in the morning of the 24th of June, the Historical Parade goes from Piazza della Singoria to the Baptistery to offer candles to the patron. It follows the solemn mass with the ostension of the relic of the Saint. At the end of the mass, in the night of the 24, in the Piazzale Michelangelo there will be San Giovanni’s fireworks, which attract a lot of people in the Lungarni zone.

San Giovanni’s day will also coincides with the final date of the Historical Football Match of Florence. This year, the protagonists of this match will be the Azzurri’s team and the Rossi’s team after that the Azzurri’s one beated the Bianchi’s one. (more…)

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Pitti Uomo N. 74 18 - 21 June 2008 Florence

As every year, in the month of June for three days, Florence turns into the pillar of International male Fashion by giving hospitality to one of the most important Fashion Exhibitions in the world: Pitti Immagine Uomo.

From the 18th to the 21th of June, the Fortezza da Basso hosts again “Pitti Uomo”, which has come by now at its 74 edition. It is the exhibition that presents the 2009 spring summer collections.

There will be 688 firms and more than 800 brand names, 200 of which are foreigner.

The sections displayed will be 15.

This year the bike, meant as accessory of fashion and design, plays the starring role. It is the center of a striking installation created by Oliviero Baldini, which stands in the central square of the Fortezza.

Free Cycle - Free Mobility is the new topic of Pitti Uomo’s Layout.

For the layout of this edition, Pitti Uomo takes inspiration from a topical subject that is the ecosustainable mobility, and in this field the bike represents more and more the symbol of a daily aesthetics and a cult object.

Thanks to the collaboration with ANCMA (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION CYCLE MOTORCYCLE ACCESSORIES), the bike will be the main object of the show’s exhibition stands. (more…)

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The spectacular Luminara of San Ranieri in Pisa

Again this year the city of Pisa, in the night of the 16th of June, keeps its annual date with the Luminara on the occasion of the feast of its patron Saint Ranieri.

Pisa’s citizens celebrate this day by decorating the streets of the city with a particular lighting, which gives name to the event. More than about seventy-thousand wax candles are put into smooth and transparent glasses and fixed onto wooden white-painted frames, which are placed in order to highlight the shape of palaces, bridges, churches and towers overlooking the banks of the river Arno. Thanks to the Luminara, also the Leaning Tower of Pisa becomes (more…)

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SAPOR BIO - Biological Taste Event in Versilia

It is about to start the second edition of SAPOR BIO which is the exhibition of the Biological Taste organized by Five Bio s.r.l. This year SaporBio will be carried out in cooperation with the most important cities of Versilia’s area: Viareggio, Forte dei Marmi, Pietrasanta and Camaiore.

SaporBio, which will take place from the 11th to the 15th of June, will deal with the bio-ecological world, the show system, the field of food and wine toghether with citizens with the intent to spread the message of living and eating healthily, completely respecting the environment. The goal of SaporBio is the spreading of the biological culture and the civility concerning the ecologically sustainability of environment. This important event wants to suggest the rediscovery of the old genuine tastes, of many new menus and the knowledge of economically sustainable products too.

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Francis Bacon in Palazzo Reale

Extended until 28th of August the exhibition that Palazzo Reale in Milan, in cooperation with Skira and Arthemisia organizes about Francis Bacon. He is considered the last of the great 20th century masters and the one who could transmit the uneasiness of the modern man in painting.

With this great event, the city of Milan wants to celebrate the centenary of Bacon’s birth that will occurr next year.

The exposition, handled by Professor Rudy Chiappini, shows in an exhaustive way the artistic career of the irish artist through its works coming from the most important museums and collections worldwide.

The core of the artistic display provides for the exposition of over one hundred works, almost all as yet unknown here in Italy, including eighty-two paintings and about fifteen drawings, plus as many objects that are part of the archive material carrying the artist’s mark. More than fifty years of career described by a large number of works which range from paintings to sketches and pictures.

A room of Palazzo Reale presents, for the first time in Italy, the photographic reproduction of Bacon’s studio of London, which was the little microcosm where he lived between 1961 and 1992, the chaotic studio where he kept all his books, papers, sketches, colours, canvases, photographs and notes, and everything else that could be a source of inspiration for him. The show opens with a set of important works on paper, which were only found after the artist’s death and have never been displayed in Italy before. Then it continues with the paintings dating back to the years after the Second World War, when Bacon made himself known at an international level thanks to the “Studies for Figures” and to his “Heads”.

Special attention is given to document Bacon’s activity in the ’50s, which was devoted to portraits made just for his friends or made to order. These paintings are dwelled by blurred and ghastly figures, desfigured and deformed faces and bodies disappearing into the darkness of the background. During the following decade, his characters started appearing in a more definite and lit space and they gain volume and expressiveness. In the great triptychs of the ’70s, his care for individual subjects had become slightly exasperating.

Among the works exposed, we mention in particular “Three Studies of the Male Back” and “Triptych”. Only during the later years of his life, Bacon stopped “fighting” with the characters of his paintings, showing their inner essence and transforming them into a few spots of colour clotted on neutral backgrounds.

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Macchiaioli: Tuscan Art on Exhibition in Venice

Until 27th July at Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti in Venice, an exclusive exhibition is open to the public, and it’s dedicated to the artworks belonging to the great Macchiaioli of Tuscan 19th century: I MACCHIAIOLI CAPOLAVORI DELLA COLLEZIONE MARIO TARAGONI.

It seems to be nothing special, but the real peculiarity of this exhibition is that all the artworks on view come from the private collection of Mario Taragoni, great art collector who, between the 30s’ and the 70s’ gathered a rich collection of works.

The collector’s attention in choosing the works, has always been directed mostly to the Tuscan painting, for which he had a great passion, but in its selection prefered most of all Macchiaioli’s artworks, a painting movement which was born in Florence between the 19th and the 20th century, and whose name was defined by an anonymous reviewer with negative connotation. (more…)

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