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Jeff  Koons Shine

Jeff Koons Shine

Since next October 2nd 2021 until January 30 2022, Palazzo Strozzi of Florence hosts a new great exhibition dedicated to Jeff Koons, one of the most important and discussed character of contemporary art . The exhibit, cured by Arturo Galansino e Joachim Pissarro, shows a selection of the most ... More

The British War Cemetery

The British War Cemetery

The Florence War Cemetery was built at the end of the Second World War to bury soldiers, sailors and aviators of the British Commonwealth Army, fallen in the Italian Liberation Campaign between the 8th of September 1943 and the 25th of April 1945.The Italian State gave this place as a perpetual ... More


Arturo Martini at the Museo Novecento in Florence

Arturo Martini at the Museo Novecento in Florence

From July 16th until November 14 2021 the Museo Novecento in Florence presents the exhibition Arturo Martini and Florence. This event wants to point out the strong relashionship between the artist and the city of Florence through his partecipation to important exhibitons in the 1930's, which ... More

Penone's tres at the Uffizi Gallery

Penone's tres at the Uffizi Gallery

At the Uffizi Gallery of Florence the exhibition Alberi in versi (Trees in verses) by the Italian artist Guseppe Penone from July 6th 2021 until October 3rd 2021. Being inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy (Paradise 18 vv. 28-30) “albero che vive della cima”, suggesting that the ... More


New rooms at the Uffizi

New rooms at the Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery of Florence has a new section dedicated to the 1500 painting, showing 129 masterpieces in 14 new rooms. The museum espands his surface with over 2000 square metres, displaying even paintings never shown. But also new acquisitions, such as the magnificent Elias in the desert by ... More

The explosion of the Charriot 2021

The explosion of the Charriot 2021

This year the traditional event called the Explosion of the Carriot will be held on Easter Sunday, April 4th, at the Duomo, at 11.00 o’clock, in a reduced way (in order to respect social distancing due to Covid), therefore no people, except for the authorities. The event will be filmed ... More


JR in Florence

JR in Florence

Since March 19 2021 The Strozzi Palace of Florence will change its appearance. JR (Jean René) the very famous French contemporary artist, is asked to reinterpret the façade of one of the symbols of the Florentine Renaissance, using his carachteristic technic: the photographic ... More

American Art 1961 -2001 Andy Warhol at  Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

American Art 1961 -2001 Andy Warhol at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

A great exhibition since April 15 at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will show the modern art of United States between the beginning of the War in Vietnam and Sepember 11 2001.With a selection of almost more than 80 extraordinary works of painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video ... More


Safety rules during the Pandemia

Safety rules during the Pandemia

Your qualified tourist guide of Florence, Alesandra Gardin, as a serious professional, wants you to know that all tours suggested and provided by her will be done, in compliance to the Italian Government laws regarding Covid - 19 Pandemia. Therefore it is compulsory using a mask for the guide ... More

Henry Moore in Florence

Henry Moore in Florence

The Museo Novecento in Florence, hosts the exhibition Henry Moore. the drawing of the sculptor. After almost fifty years from the magnificent exhibit in 1972 at the Forte di Belvedere, the great master of English sculpture is back to Florence. The exhibition, born from the cooperation of the ... More