Category: Art

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“Artissima” in Turin is back: the festival of the contemporary art

An unmissable event for every contemporary art lover and the ones working in the art market!

Like every year,  the famous international contemporary art fair Artissima will come back in Turin in November (9th – 11th), with the most important galleries and the most esteemed artists in the world.

Of course, not only exhibitions, but also in-depth meetings and guided tours will be held to discover the many works of art through customized visits.

The fair will be divided into

Book and Ancient Press Festival in Pisa, 2012

On November 10th – 11th the Ancient Book Festival is back in the city of the most famous leaning tower! (in Piazza Martiri della Libertà).

Since 1989, this event is a must for all collectors, who will find here  rare incunabulums, first editions, and a rich sector of cartography and “vedute”, to suit everyone’s tastes and pockets.

This year the festival can count 40 exhibitors, with a wide range of Italian antiquary libraries.

2012 edition of “Lucca Comics & Games” is ready to begin

The long-awaited Lucca Comics&Games is back: one of the main events dedicated to comics, animation, games, videogames, fantasy and sci-fi!

The festival will start on November, 1st and end on 4th; the exhibitions have been open from October 20th until the end of the festival.

For the 25th time, there will also be the Original Game Contest: the announcement is online for all the games creators.

A for the comics, the special guests of this edition will be:

Cloisters of Columbus’ Time

Let’s celebrate the discoverer of the New Continent at the several cloisters of Columbus’ time in Genoa.

Like every year, Genoa will host the traveling historical parade called “Cloisters in the time of Columbus”, on October 14th (the Sunday which is the closest to October 12th, date of the discovery of America).

As we all know – though the Spanish keep on denying it – Christopher Columbus was in fact Italian, as he was born in Genoa. Its native city has thus decided to celebrate him with this traveling feast through the ancient cloisters, where he spent his youth.

Throughout the whole day you will have the chance to enjoy music, poetry,

Since 2013, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci will offer a brand-new Course: Italian Tour – discovering Italy and learning Italian

Scuola Leonardo da Vinci, the school with several years experience in teaching Italian to foreign students, announces the start of a brand-new course: the Italian Tour, a course that allows participants to know and discover Italy by giving students the opportunity to study in several cities. In this way, they will have the chance to visit Italy and, at the same time, learn Italian language.

With this course, students will appreciate Italian language even more and they will go into Italian atmosphere and culture with a 360 degrees experience, which will give them the chance to visit beautiful the most beautiful cities and places in Italy.

As a matter of fact, Scuola Leonardo da Vinci has schools located in 4 wonderful Italian cities: Milan, Florence, Rome and Siena, which have similar syllabus and where students can attend the “Italian Tour