Florence with flair
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I would love to show you each secret and corner of Florence! These are just a few of the wonderful exhibitions, gardens, villas we may enjoy together! Dive into the pictures and start dreaming about Florence!
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Chocolate with flair
Florence's Artisan Chocolate Fair is back in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, where top chocolatiers display the art of chocolate making. From February 8 to 17, forty selected Italian and foreign chocolatiers show and sell their delicacies. This event is not only a simple...
Tartarughe in viaggio
Arte a misura di bambino: passeggiata a Palazzo Vecchio sulle tracce di rinoceronti, elefanti, leoni e tartarughe. Un viaggio per grandi e piccini nelle sale monumentali abitate dalla famiglia Medici e da fedeli compagni di gioco. L'arte attraverso i simboli, i colori...
Once in a lifetime
"Once in a lifetime: treasures from Florentine archives and libraries" Temporary exhibition at the Sala Bianca at the Palatine Gallery (Pitti Palace, Florence) From January 28 2014 to April 27 2014 Three archival documents by Michelangelo, a drawing by Raphael, the...
Oliviero Toscani: art & wine
Photographer and wine maker. The famous photographer awarded four Lions d'Or as well the Unesco Grand Prix, creator of world-famous advertising campains for international brands is back to his true calling. His father was the first photo-journalist of one of the...
Hats between Art and Extravaganza in Florence
Colors, poetry and art perceived through original and extravagant hats. After the monographic exhibition in 2012 dedicated to ties, the Costume Gallery is proud to feature an accessory that is destined not to go unnoticed: the hat. Visitors will admire a small part of...
“A powerful gaze”
The Museum of the Medici Chapels celebrates Michelangelo with a new temporary exhibition from January 8th to March 15th 2014. Imposing black and white pictures by Aurelio Amendola will be displayed at the museum reveiling precious details about Dusk and Dawn, David,...
Women in the Spotlight in the Twentieth Century
The Costume Gallery of Florence is one of the most eclettic museums of Florence and it is housed inside the 18th-century Palazzina della Meridiana, a wing of the Pitti Palace overlooking the Boboli Gardens. The collection gathers about six thousand works including...
Epiphany in Florence
January 6th is Epiphany: three wise kings (Magi) visited baby Jesus in Betlehem. In Italian this is called Epifania, celebrated as the "Cavalcata dei Magi". This is an historic procession, represented in Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes inside the Medici's private chapel of...
HAPPY 2014!!
Sparkling, happy, creative new year to everybody!! See you around in Florence soon!!! Buon anno a tutti gli amici vicini e lontani!!
Christmas in Florence 2013
The city undergoes such a magical transformation that every night in December feels like a holiday. Christmas lights, in all of their elegant variety, dangle over the city’s otherwise dark streets; trees set within wooden boxes line the wide Via Callimala; and nearly...
Accademia Gallery – new setting
The Galleria dell'Accademia features the redevelopment of the so-called Hall of the Colossus (which takes its name from the chalk of an ancient statue, one of the Dioscuri of Monte Cavallo,no longer present in the gallery). The great altarpiece painted in 1500 by...
New setting of 127 self portraits along the Vasari Corridor
The Vasari Corridor has re-opened to the public after a period of re-organisation of the paintings. There are now 127 self-portraits by Italian and foreign artists from the Uffizi archives on display there. Visitors will see more recent works such as the famous...
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