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WEBNews features: Find out the latest news from Florence, Italy, with a particular focus on all the cultural ongoings in the Renaissance capital. We take you through art, food and wine, latest openings, changes to the city’s contemporary landscape, and updates on Covid-19 as well as everything else you need to know.
Dante and Beatrice: an eternal love story | The Florentine
WEBNov 2, 2021 · Dante and Beatrice in Florence: a new musical film. On Sunday, November 28, Hershey Felder returns to our screens as Dante in a world premiere musical film that focuses on the eternal love story between the Supreme Poet and Beatrice. The story begins in the Chiesa di Dante before taking us around the places that Dante frequented in …
Free Uffizi tours from home | The Florentine
WEBApr 22, 2020 · In one of the rooms, users can look out of the window and enjoy a sunlit view of Florence and the Arno. The virtual tour is designed and produced by the Uffizi Galleries and Opera Laboratori Fiorentini. Following their social media response to Covid-19, the Uffizi has today launched a full-immersion tour of the gallery's most famous artworks.
Michelangelo’s tomb: five fun facts you probably didn’t know
WEBOct 12, 2017 · Michelangelo like a saint. Bust of Michelangelo on tomb. Chronicles often report that after saints die, their bodies remain in good condition and they smell good. This phenomenon could last for years after a saint’s death. People saw this as concrete proof of the unique, divine nature of a saint.
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
WEBMar 10, 2011 · The Bandiera brothers organize a revolt to create an ‘independent, united and democratic Italian republic with Rome as its capital.’. However, there is insufficient support and their revolutionary activities are violently suppressed. 1846. The election of Pius IX brings a new era of hope to Italy’s moderate reformers.
The Fontana sisters - The Florentine
WEBJun 11, 2019 · The Fontana sisters, Zoe, Micol and Giovanna, were pivotal in establishing the “Made in Italy” fashion brand internationally. Despite still struggling to recover from the devastation of World War II, the city of Rome was in delirium on January 27, 1949. That Wednesday, at 10.30 in the morning, the Hollywood superstar Tyrone Power married ...
The Medici balls - The Florentine
WEBMar 29, 2012 · In 1496, there were so many Medici coats of arms on the buildings of Florence that Savonarola, the famous critic and reformist, claimed that even the places of importance usually reserved for the crucifix in churches had been usurped by the Medici’s balls. The Medici family has always been associated with balls. Six of them to be exact.
San Lorenzo Church in Florence - The Florentine
WEBSep 19, 2018 · San Lorenzo is broken up into three distinct areas for visitors to enjoy. The Medici Chapels, round the back of the church, are a separate site bureaucratically speaking.The basilica complex comprises the other two elements: the church itself, and its adjacent cloister which gives access to the famed Laurentian Library, whose staircase …
145 years of good grub: Florence’s central market - The Florentine
WEBWed 04 Dec 2019 1:52 PM. The cast iron and glass structure opened with an impressive horticultural show in May 1874 and has remained the core of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood for 145 years. Now, the ground floor of Florence’s central market is changing things up a gear. Florence’s Central Market, on the ground floor / ph. Leo Cardini.
A chat with Sarah Winman | The Florentine
WEBDec 1, 2021 · A chat with Sarah Winman. An instant Sunday Times bestseller with stellar reviews in the New York Times and the Guardian, Still Life is the one of the most spellbinding reads about Florence in recent years. Sarah Winman speaks to The Florentine ahead of an author’s event at The British Institute on December 2. Ph. Patricia Niven.
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