Alessandra Gardin
If you are fond of art visit Florence off the crowd, in low season! A few days ago the city started recuperating its spaces: the squares are less crowded, you do not risk any more to be pushed, the streets are no more full of infinite queues of turist groups. You have no more to line up in front of ... More
Until January 8th 2012 in the Room 2 of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence The Madonna and seventeen scenes of Mary's life from the Pušhkin Museum of Moscow will be visible. It is a very important XIII century painting which can be compared with the famous Maestà preserved in the same ... More
Until February 12 2012, in Florence at the palace which was the last residence of the Medici family the exhibition La Bella Italia (the beautiful Italy) - Arte e identità delle capitali will be on. Inside the celebrations for the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy the exhibit takes ... More
Do find out the magnificent Tuscany in Autumn. Your official local guide of Florence suggests a wonderful tour in Chianti: art, wine, ancient flavors and craftsmanship. The season is still very nice and and not too crowded. We will see nice little villages, where time has stopped, walled little ... More
Last September 26 the fashion brand Gucci opened its Museum at the Mercatanzia Palace in the Signoria Square in Florence. It was exactly where the famous maison was born in 1921. The Museum is distributed on three floors in a space of 1.700 square metres. At the ground floor the Cadillac ... More
From Saturday September 24 until Sunday September 25 WINE TOWN will be back to Florence. The wine exhibit has succeded in mixing two great Florentine traditions: the historical places belonging to the ancient families of wine producers and the enogastronomic experience of great brands. Next weekend ... More
The Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence who run the monumental complex of the Duomo, of the Baptistry, of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, of the Cupola (Dome) and of Giotto’s Bell tower has recently decided the opportunity for tourists of a multiple ticket lasting 4 days which ... More
Until September 28th 2011, at the Church-auditorium Santo Stefano al Ponte in Florence, is open the exhibition Dalì and Rodin : homage to Dante. It shows 120 prints and bronze sculptures by Salvador Dalì and 60 bronze statues and 160 drawings by Auguste Rodin from his monumental work ... More
In Florence, according to the event "Tuesday in Art" the most important State Museums of the city will be open freely in these days from 7:00 pm untill 11:00 pm: March 29, April 26, May 31, June 28, July 26, August 30, September 27, October 25, November 29 and December 27. The Museums are ... More
The city Governement of Florence, working on reorganizing the district of San Lorenzo, is thinking of a shocking project: completing the unfinished façade of the Church of San Lorenzo according to Michelangelo's drawing. Some years ago, on the occasion of "Suoni e luci" (Sounds and ... More