Summer Sales are going to start…So Let’s Go Shopping in Florence!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, fashion victims from all over the world, your attention, please: Summer Sales are about to arrive in Florence!

We’re almost there…just one week and in Florence summer sales will start, more precisely on Tuesday 7^th July.

You will find sales everywhere, especially in the biggest cities of Italy, where it is a very expected moment because it’s just in this period that people can allow themselves some luxurious objects or satisfy a whim, without doing great harm to their wallet!

All the city shops, from the sport shops to the great and prestigious boutiques will discount (more…)

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On Saturday 27th June, Florence presents a Sleepless Night

Nottarno comes back with its 3^rd edition, the sleepless night in Oltrarno, in Florence.

Yes! As all the great cities, also Florence enjoys its Sleepless Night and awaits you all in great numbers for a long night full of events and shows.

Nottarno, commonly known as Diladdarno, is an extraordinary event which every year tries to increase the value of the ancient district of Florence, Oltrarno, in order to make it know to the world public.

For a whole night, really everyone, from the museums to the craftsmen workshops, from the cafes to the restaurants will stay open to the public in order to celebrate with (more…)

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Man Fashion at Palazzo Pitti in Florence: 76th edition

The most expected appointment by all fashion lovers comes back in Florence: Pitti Immagine Uomo n° 76.

In fact, from 16^th to 19^th June, the pavilions of Fortezza da Basso in Florence will be transformed to host this new event of Pitti Immagine, which as usual, schedules a wide range of events, many initiatives and international previews.

The 13 sections of this Pitti Uomo will be arranged in 59,000 sq. m., and as always, the event will launch new brands and new trends, and it will show the new collections of the most prestigious and stylish fashion houses.

International guests, great side events and many novelties. The most important one? (more…)

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The Florence leg of Cavendish and Petacchi

The Giro d’Italia 2009 - at its 92° edition and 100° anniversary this year - Florence leg will see a special competition between an English and an Italian cyclist, both actors of this particular edition of the race.

Yes, because presented on last December at the Gran teatro La Fenice in Venice, the arrival, after 21 legs and 3,395 km, will not be in Milan this year - as usual is, starting from 1950 - but in the capital city of Rome. It could be defined as a backlinks race, from North to South and a little bit to the North again, a very hard race for sprinters taking part on it, even without the usual hard obstacle represented by Alps at the end of the path.

The Tuscan leg of the tour will see the crossover of the provinces of Lucca, Massa Carrara, Pisa and Florence. The Lido di Camaiore - Florence leg is characterized by a pretty linear way of 176Km - with just one exception represented by the Montemagno climb, just a little bit more difficult for participants - ending the race in viale Abram Lincoln in Florence, near to the historic cycle track of the Cascine area. Except for potential intrusion of Farrar, Davis and Goos, the protagonists of such leg will be with no doubt the English cyclist Cavendish and the Italian Petacchi.

Departure of the Tuscan leg will be at 1,25 p.m. and the expected arrival at about 5,00 - 5,30 p.m.

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“Museums at Night” on Saturday 16th May

“Museums at Night” is a really interesting initiative funded by the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage, which will take place on Saturday 16^th May and will allow a late night opening of all national museums.

Museums at Night is an event expressly created for anyone who doesn’t have the chance to dedicate time to cultural interests and to visit the amazing exhibitions in the Italian museums during the ordinary opening hours. So, as culture belongs to everyone, the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage decided to support this initiative to allow all the people who for reasons relating to work or economy, don’t have the chance to visit the extraordinary heritage hosted by our museums.

In fact, the night of Saturday 16^th May, all the national museums which will support the initiative, will stay open until 2.00 AM for free (entry allowed until 1.00 AM).

Together with the museums’ visits, there will be also a long series of other events, to encourage citizens to take part to this event.

Actually, this original initiative has its roots in 2005, in (more…)

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Filmspray gets started in Florence for the first time

On May 7^th, the first edition of an extraordinary movie event will begin in the city of Florence: Filmspray.

Filmspray is not just a simple festival, but it is also an innovative movie review dedicated to the screening of all the movies and shorts which didn’t receive a good visibility because of problems relative to distribution activities.

Filmspray films are very beautiful and interesting, but they weren’t as successful as expected by reason of economic and productive development of cinema world and probably they deserved their popularity.

Florence’s cinema “Ciak” (placed in Via Faenza), which on this occasion (more…)

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ART: International Crafts Fair in Florence

Since two days, ART, the International Crafts Fair, has come back to Florence.

The exhibition, which takes place just on 1^st May long weekend, on the occasion of the Labor Day, as well as an exhibition and an economic event, also represents a homage to an important workers category, the craftsmen.

At its 73^rd edition, ART is one of the most expected events in Florence by all the handicraft Italian and foreign lovers. In fact the fair, which every year gathers thousands people among the pavilions of Fortezza da Basso, is a real meeting-point for the very best of crafts made-in-Italy.

As in the past, the exhibition is subdivided into (more…)

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A Week in the pursuit of Culture

As every year, the extraordinary initiative organized by the Department of Cultural Heritage is come back for promoting the Italian culture: the 11^th Week of Culture.

In fact, in all the Italian cities from April 18^th to 26^th, museums, archaeological excavations, churches and monuments will open their doors to visitors, so that for a whole week the spaces of culture will have no metes and bounds.

Tourists, schools children and simple citizens who can’t wait to enjoy a couple of days in the interests of culture, will be the protagonists of this project, and the most important and beautiful places of our country’s culture will be invaded.

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Easter time in Florence with the Burst of the Cart!

Easter is coming and as every year, the About Italy staff can’t do without remind you the extraordinary tradition of the Burst of the Cart which gives to the Florentine Easter a really special atmosphere.

Yes, because every year Duomo Square in Florence turns into the protagonist of a really peculiar event, which boasts of a very ancient tradition, rich sacred and profane elements.

The burst of the cart is one of the most expected events in the Tuscan town, which every year gathers not only all the Florentine citizens, but also several tourists coming from every corner of Italy and of the world.

It’s about a really spectacular cart, called Brindellone, (more…)

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Galileo at Palazzo Strozzi and About Galileo finally online!

“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.

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.

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.

At the exhibition, you will have the chance to marvel at (more…)

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