In summer 2009, NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) gives to foreign students who wish to have a learning holiday in Italy the possibility to choose among a large variety of prestigious Design Summer Courses, such as: Fashion Design, Styling and Accessories, Fashion Marketing and Merchandising, Fashion Photography and Journalism, Fashion Textiles and Fibres, Interior and Product Design, Landscape Architecture, Lighting Design Studio, Graphic Design, Graphic Art Design for Fashion, Photography and the Moving Image, Theatre Design.

NABA’s way of teaching integrates traditional disciplines of visual representation with the new digital technologies and the critical-project culture of Italian Design. Generally speaking, such courses want to introduce students to the world of fashion, design and graphic design whatever the type of artistic expression. These courses will concentrate

“Galileo. Immagini dell’universo dall’antichità al telescopio” (“Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the Telescope”) is the title of the exhibition which Palazzo Strozzi of Florence dedicates to Galileo Galilei.

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The exhibition, under way until 30th August, pays homage to the extraordinary intellectual richness of one of the greatest Italian geniuses ever born here in our country.

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This exhibition is a real time trip which starts from antiquity, with the first mystical and poetical interpretations of the universe mysteries made by Egyptians. In addition, the attention will shift on the first planetary architectures of Greeks, to the first theories about the origins of the universe by Copernico, until the theories and discoveries of the fathers of modern astronomy, Galileo and Keplero, followed by Newton.

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At the exhibition, you will have the chance to marvel at

Hey guys, what are you gonna do on New Year’s Day?!!! No, I’m not making fun of you, but the fact is that in a few days, here the Tuscan New Year’s Day will be celebrated.

Yes, because every year on 25th March Florence and many other Tuscan towns use to celebrate the New Year’s Day. This because until 1750 in Florence the year began on 25^th March, the day of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary.

It was in 1749 that the Grand duke of Lorraine decided to fix the begin of the year in Florence on 1^st January, just like in the other countries

This decision provoked much discontent among the Florentines, so timorous to lose forever the tradition which aroused the joy of everyone, who used to celebrate together in the beautiful Piazza Santissima Annunziata.

Unfortunately, for a long time it happened, because the great celebrations of 25^th march which make the city full of processions and shows were abandoned… but in 2000, seeing that in some villages someone still kept on following tradition of 25^th March celebrations, the Municipality of Florence decided to

This year is the fourth centenary since the first use of a telescope by Galileo Galilei and as many of you maybe already know, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy.

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One of the most active Italian cities which celebrate and commemorate this extraordinary step of mankind toward the sky, is the city of Turin.

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On 21^st March in fact, at the University department located in Via Verdi, a very very special exhibition will be set up: “La Storia dei Telescopi” (“The History of Telescopes”). This exhibition will show you in a very peculiar way the history of this invention, from the intuitions and discoveries which allowed to a great mind like Galileo Galilei, until the extraordinary telescopes of NASA which

On Monday 22nd March, the 15th edition of the most expected marathon by Italian athletes will start: the Marathon of Rome.

The eternal city in fact, will turn into a road racing itinerary dedicated to the professional athletes coming from every corner of Italy and to all well-trained Rome citizens.

Obviously, the race is divided into two categories, one dedicated to

The 8^th edition of Venice International Boat Show is ready to begin, the world-famous event which puts on display all the last novelties about the sector of sailing and powerboats.

This year, the special event will put side by side an exhibition part and a rich program of sport events, such as regattas, water motors performances, some sailing and canoe courses, and for the first time, at the Boat Show the visitors will have the opportunity to do a tour on a two-seater F1 catamaran.

The event venue is the Stazione Marittima, endowed with a dock of about 120,000 square meters, which this year will consist in 16, 000 square meters of pavilions, divided into three thematic exhibition

Until the 29th of June, the Vittorianos structure of Rome will give hospitality to a very important exhibition dedicated to the most important master painting of Middle Ages and of the entire history of art: Giotto.

The event, called “Giotto e il Trecento. Il più sovrano Maestro stato in dipintura” shows the whole decorative course of Giotto, extrapolating them from the cultural context in which Giotto worked. Wonderful works that date back to the period between the 13th century and mid-14th century, that retrace the artistic and stylistic career of Giotto, indicating the crucial stages of his life as a man and artist.

At the exhibition you will find 150 works exposed, among polyptyches, works on tables and sculptures with very rare goldsmith works that testify the stylistic sensibility and

The Salone del Mobile (Furniture Trade Show) of Florence represents one of the national high-quality and complete trade shows in the field of furniture and home design.

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This event is now a regular appointment for the city, and this year it awaits furniture lovers and anyone is just curious to see, from 7^th to 15^th March, as usual, in the rooms of Fortezza da Basso in Florence.

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If you want to get up to date about the last trends in furniture, or you are renovating your home and you are looking for special ideas and particular pieces to make your home rooms unique, then the Salone del Mobile (Furniture Trade Show) of Florence is just perfect for you.

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Here you will find everything, and I say just everything it is possible to

On Saturday March 7^th, the Real Collegio of Lucca will host the 4^th Sudoku Italian Championship.

This particular competition, which for four years now draws the attention and ability of more than 200 participants, is entirely dedicated to the most famous game in the world which from Japan enlarged its horizons and enchanted nearly everybody.

In Summer 2005, the media didn’t stop to talk about it and continuously showed images of people standing under the beach umbrellas only playing Sudoku. People soon began to compete for solving the emblematic little number-based puzzle as soon as possible, and so, there was the idea to