Hey Guys…Finally it’s Summer!

And for all of you who, despite the warm days and muggy weather, decide to remain in the city of Milan, a wonderful summer has just begun: La Bella Estate di Milano 2009!

In fact, the most expected series of summer events has come back, and the city of Milan organizes for you all summer long, from 16^th June to 30^th August, 400 different appointments to

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.

On April Wednesday 22^nd, the International Furniture Fair will come back to the city of Milan, still rich of innovations and surprises despite its 48 seasons.

The International Furniture Fair of Milan, together with the long series of Milanese trade shows, such as the one showing furniture and lighting elements, is the most important event in this sector and it boasts of international prestige and also of a universally renowned reputation.

 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.

In fact, the slogan

This year MiArt returns for its 14^th season, the International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair which represents a usual appointment for the whole city of Milan and for the entire Italian artistic scene.

Milan Art, set as every year in the fieramilanocity area, is an important event for artists and modern and contemporary art lovers. In fact, every year the best Italian and foreign 20^th century collections are selected and put on view at the fair, and the most beautiful and innovative contemporary artworks in the international artistic scene are carefully selected for the exhibition.

This important event can boast of the fact that changes and improves year after year, in order to give artists more attention and to provide them better visibility, and to give collectors and art lovers the chance to see the most important masterpieces of modern and contemporary art gathered together.

In particular for this edition, MiArt intends to put stress on the dialogue with citizens and with the thousands aspects of the beautiful city of Milan, into the shoes of a showcase of strong business, cultural and social potential of Milan, a continuously developing city, the same city which is always on the go, as painted by the futurist Balla.

An event not to be missed, Mi Art awaits you in great numbers from April 17^th to 20^th at Fieramilanocity.

And in addition guys, remember that it’s springtime, so why don’t allow yourself a week-end in the amazing city of Milan!!?

In Milan, a really special exhibition will be set and will show everyone the perfect fusion between Japan and Monet’s skillful art.

The exhibition, entitled “Monet e il Giappone, il Tempo delle Ninfee” (“Monet and Japan, the Time of Water Lilies”) will enchant the Royal Palace rooms of Milan from April 29^th to September 27^th.

In fact Monet, one of the most esteemed French painters in the history of art, has always showed a particular tendency for Japan, its history, its spirituality and its artistic expressions.

Monet was particularly attracted by the Japanese naturalism, which was born from a philosophical conception of nature that subsequently appeared also in the arts and most of all in painting; he dedicated most of his artistic life to this kind of painting. The Japanese naturalism conceived the nature as a real condition of men.

The nature, introduced in a time which doesn’t go by and doesn’t move is for the man, who has to pay respect to it and to enjoy its precious benefits and treasures.

Therefore, this extraordinary exhibition at Royal Palace of Milan consists of a twenty works, which were born from the connection between French impressionism and Japanese naturalism.

The event is absolutely not to miss and remember, it will take place from April 29^th to September 27^th in Milan.

This year Futurism celebrates its 100^th birthday, and Milan, the city which inspired the artworks belonging to the greatest painters of futurist vanguard, celebrates with a really spectacular exhibition: “Futurismo 1909 – 2009 Velocità+Arte+Azione” (“Futurism 1909 – 2009 Speed+Art+Action”).

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The exhibition, organized by Giovanni Lista and Ada Masoero, will start on next 6^th February and will enchant the halls of the wonderful Palazzo Reale in Milan until 7^th June.

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The event is a real explosion of creativity, light, colour and movement. As many as 400 artworks on exhibition, among 240 paintings, drawings, sculptures, theatre scenographies, and photographs which retrace the whole artistic itinerary of the great artists of Italian futurism.

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The exhibition is a sort of documentary film which goes back the

Once a year, on 7th December the city of Milan is proud to celebrate the day dedicated to its patron saint who is Saint Ambrose, called by Milan’s citizens “Sant’Ambrös”!

Saint Ambrose Day has really ancient origins and through the years it has been keeping the affection and the participation of all Milan’s inhabitants, who between the ritual mass of 7th December in the beautiful Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio and the stalls of “Oh bej oh bej” fair, cram the streets of the city to celebrate this great event.

The fair, which dates back to 1288, takes its name from the exclamation of Milan’s children who, between the stalls full of toys and sweets, couldn’t help marveling and shouted “Oh bej oh bej” (that it means “Oh, how nice! How nice!”).

Usually this event, which is a real festival of colours, lights and

After Neoimpressionism, Milan goes on with its great artistic season and dedicates an extraordinary exhibition to Renè Magritte, entitled “Magritte e la Natura” (“Magritte and the Nature”).

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The exhibition, which will start next 21^st November in Milan, shows as protagonist one of the most eclectic personages in the panorama of last century’s art. One hundred artworks on view, among collages and paintings, which retrace the artistic itinerary of Magritte from the first futurist paintings to 50s’ advertising campaigns.

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The whole exposition revolves just around one theme: the nature. The continuous presence of nature in the painter’s artworks, its importance, and the peculiar way to develop this theme. Magritte shows his surrealist fingerprint by using nature as a fragment of reality to reach a surreal world.

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Managed by Michel Draguet, the exhibition underlines

From 10^th October at Palazzo Reale of Milan people will be able to admire the great exhibition dedicated to the founding fathers of the Neoimpressionist movement entitled “Seurat, Signac e il Neoimpressionismo” (“Seurat, Signac and the Neoimpressionism”).

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Seurat and Signac used to paint their precious canvass at the island of la Grande Jatte, where they portraited scenes of daily life in which nature is the real mistress; simple sceneries made unique by the incredible ability to capture every fragment of light and color on the canvas.

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The exhibition is divided into seven great sections which follow a chronological order, and which retrace the artistic itinerary of these great artists, offering