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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.
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
WEBMar 10, 2011 · The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline. The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification. 1815. At the Congress of Vienna, the powers that had defeated Napoleon-Austria, Russia, Prussia and Great ...
The origins of Tombola | The Florentine
WEBNov 30, 2017 · The origins of Tombola. Traditionally, Christmas Day is a family occasion in Italian households when all members, from elderly grandparents to newly born babies, gather around the table. After lunch, when the dishes have been cleared away, an odd assortment of objects take their place, ready to play tombola, a game not unlike bingo.
Meet the artists from The Florence Academy of Art
WEBNov 3, 2022 · While The Florence Academy of Art is a miracle of execution, excellence, history and tradition, what specifically defines its identity are the individuals who studied as part of the system of continuum and who graduated to become remarkable and respected artists in their own right as they teach the next generation. On quietly visiting the academy, wandering awestruck from studio to studio, one ...
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.
Visit Marradi - The Florentine
WEBOct 3, 2022 · With a centuries-old, often tumultuous history dating to Roman times, the Ligurians, Etruscans and Gauls were the earliest inhabitants of the area. Following fierce invasions by the Goths and Lombards, the residents of Marradi found themselves under several dominions down the ages until the morning of July 25, 1358.At the Battle of Scalelle, the Marradesi made the brave choice to ambush ...
Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence | The Florentine
WEBJan 9, 2019 · Scholars and architecture enthusiasts will know that Palazzo Medici Riccardi is something of a prototype for all Renaissance architecture to come, designed by Michelozzo to represent the emerging ideals of this new era. Our visit starts outside the building, where this concept is most evident. The facades of …
10 influential Italians in the world today | The Florentine
WEBDec 3, 2015 · From scientists to economists, actors, architects and singers, some of the most powerful and influential people in the world today were born and bred in Italy. 1. Mario Draghi. Advertisements. “I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.”. Governor of the Bank of Italy from 2005 to 2011, economist Mario Draghi, 68, succeeded ...
Wine on tap: a love letter to “vino sfuso” - The Florentine
WEBMar 18, 2021 · Piazza Puccini 25. +39 338 1066366. Wine Lab. Via Gioberti 44A. 055 295560. Whatsapp orders +39 376 0622469. This article was published in Issue 276 of The Florentine. Vino sfuso is something utterly magical to those who haven’t been raised in the grape-growing regions of Italy and something quite mundane to those who.
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 and reading room were designed by Michelangelo.
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