The Milan event dedicated to design is just around the corner.

The International Furniture Exhibition and Fuori Salone come back in Milan and this year celebrate a special event: the 50th anniversary of Salone del Mobile di Milano.

Together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition presents a wide and varied range of proposals showcasing 360° of domestic furnishing solutions both in terms of typology – from stand-alone pieces to coordinates – and in terms of style – from classical to design to modern – not to mention the trendsetters of tomorrow.

The city and its habitants, especially in hotels and restaurants, are preparing for welcoming guests from all over the world.

The side events scheduled are

The Museum of Oriental Arts (MAO) in Turin often organizes exhibitions in order to show at best the unknown and charming traits of the countries which have always been defined as Oriental.

This spring, it will put on display what is difficult to put as a show: music.

Until April, 21st, a series of themed meetings will crowd the exhibitions’ agenda of the Museum: a series of traditional and popular music concerts, untouched by modern influences, from many Asian countries will go shoulder by shoulder with movies and documentaries, most of all never published, and meetings with musicians and musicologists to make the universe in which those melodies developed and

The yearly appointment with Expo-Pisa comes back with its commitment for economic recovery and sustainable development in this 23rd edition in collaboration with Aghape, a marketing company dealing with the combination of ethics and cultural diffusion with a brand new business model that points to avoid damaging the natural resources quite limited.

The new pavilion dedicated to the eco-friendly building will be open and named Bio & Energy – Ecotechnica 2011.

Many conventions are organized in Expo days, didactic events to which people interested could attend: let’s start on March, 28th with the workshop on training of manager Procedure,

We’re nearly arrived to the 150 years of Italian Unity eve and we’re all waiting curiously and quite impatiently for the celebrations in Italian cities to come.

Lots of exhibitions, events, lessons and many kinds of initiatives are already ongoing for a few days, in some cases also for months, dedicated to patriotism and to Risorgimento, a whole Italian riot movement against foreign oppressors and against devided Italian States for the unification of the country.

In January a list, available in full version in the celebrations official web site, has also been drawn with “Luoghi della memoria” (Memorial sites), monuments, squares and streets, often in state of neglect and forgetfulness, calling back the memory to the facts that led to the Unity. Amog them there are the Monumento alla Difesa in Venice, Parco del Gianicolo in Rome, Monumento a Garibaldi and Lungomare di Quarto dei Mille, Santa Croce in Firenze, Monumento alle Cinque Giornate in Milan, the Primo Parlamento Italiano in Palazzo Carignano , Turin,

Florence celebrates Italian cookery and flavor with the brand new edition of “Taste. In viaggio con le diversità del gusto” (Taste. Traveling with taste diversities), the wine and food fair at Stazione Leopolda, the salon of taste and new proposals for the way of living food.

From March, 12th to 14th you could walk along taste streets let yourself be achieved by innovations and food & wine tradition of our country.

The experiment involving all senses is organized into different expositive areas: first of all Taste Tour, a real tasting and discovery path going through the range of savory and unusual experiences Italy offers, from olive taggiasche jam to pecorino cheese with saffron, from tuna bresaola

Would you like to adjust furnishings for your new home and you don’t have ideas?

Are you searching for a special piece of furniture making your living room special?

Would you like to give a modern twist to your rooms or simply to change the sofa, the table, the bed?

Or you’re just a fan of new furnishing trend?

For you all comes back in Florence “Salone del Mobile“ (Furniture Exhibition) with its 14th edition that surely will satisfy every need you got in one of the main Italian furnishing exhibitions, from March, 5th to 13th.

The great number of new proposals exposed, the big brands and

After the preview, a week later starts the logn awaited Carnival in Serenissima. A very packed schedule waits for the whole city and its visitors, a festive and coloured flooding, full of XIX century costumes and traditions taking your breath away.

As it was anticipate, for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification the tradition of a Carnival theme was recoverder: this year theme is “Ottocento-da Senso a Sissi-the city of women”, chosen for the coincidence between Shrove Tuesday, that signs the end of celebrations, and Women’s Day, on March, 8th.

After a week-break from the preview

Once again, Genoa opens the doors to art by hosting the 7th edition of the famous Exhibition-Market ArteGenova.

The exhibition’s venue will be even this year the trade fair show located in Piazzale Kennedy and the event confirms itself as a must for art lovers and for tourists visiting the city in this period, wanting to glance at artworks exposed and maybe buy one.

ArteGenova represents the greatest Italian exhibition-market keeping up new artists and, in the meantime, giving a wide exposition space to artworks belonging to Contemporary Italian art story. More than 90 Italian art galleries will exhibit their works starting from Surrealistic representations, Futuristic, Dadaist ones up to Trans-Avant-Garde expressions, Arte Povera and Pop Art.

The most recent contemporary works cover a large portion of the exhibition area, offering a broad-spectrum landscape on new art vein explored.

From last year the participation to the exhibition of Italian

In February, Milan turns into an international pole of attraction hosting once again two long-expected events that will surely fill up the city with famous faces and visitors from all over the world.

The Milan Tattoo Convention gathers every year hundreds of body artists coming from every continent for three days of events, meetings and interchanges involving all participants. For followers, professionals and novices it represents a unique occasion to glance at the worldwide view of body art, piercing and tattoo, and to attend several shows scheduled for the event.

The elected base is confirmed to be the Quark Hotel, due steps away from Milan old town center:

The new Viareggio Carnival edition is just around the corner: the Versilia’s city is getting ready to welcome again thousands of visitors coming from all around the world to marvel at the famous ornamental floats that will parade along seafront streets, leaving the hangar situated in Cittadella del Carnevale, the place where carts are built by the skilled masters.

Born in the second half of 19th century, such a Carnival completely absorbs the inhabitants in organizing activities and active participation, rending it the main city of Viareggio-associated event. Nowadays, the Carnival doesn’t bring only confetti and celebrating floats, but also a lot of fringe events, sporting and cultural ones.

On Saturday February, 19th a fireworks display from 18:00 will be the starter shot to this 2011 edition,