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Social network for soccer talents
The Italian Footballers’ Association has created a new online service, Yourfootball, to connect young players of all nationalities and categories with agents and football clubs of all levels.
Yourfootball works like a social network: players aged 16 to 24 (who are in …
Tuscany News
Lucca repays debts and proves it
Bills paid put online
A recent release of 7.5 million euro has finally enabled the Province of Lucca to pay many of the companies and professionals who have provided services to the province. The funds have been released through the application of Decree n. 35 …
Places + Travel
Why Prato?
It’s not easy living in the shadow of the cradle of the Renaissance. Located just 20 minutes from Florence, the city of Prato is often overlooked by tourists to the central part of Tuscany.
And with good reason: the most sought-after artistic …
Florence News
What Franchi do you want?
There’s a new online survey asking fans their opinion on how club officials can improve Florence’s Franchi Stadium, home of the ACF Fiorentina. Most importantly, it asks whether the barrier in the Tribune section of the grandstand should be removed, replicating …
Sport News
Make or break for Fiorentina
Final games will define season
by Sam Lawley
ACF Fiorentina may have extended their run of good form with victories over Atalanta and Torino, but the final five games of the 2012–2013 Serie A season will be decisive, determining whether Fiorentina achieve their goal of qualification for European football. …
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews - from April 24 to May 9
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON Odeon: April 29–May 5 You can change your life in an instant. Raimund Gregorius, a stuck-in-a rut Latin teacher in Berne changes his life when an incident propels him into a literary investigation that takes him to Portugal. …
Italian Sketches
Mario Moretti Polegato
A man that's all sole
What do blistered feet, a hot desert in America and a young Italian winemaker have in common? The answer is a footwear revolution. The man behind it, Mario Moretti Polegato, has often told the story about how he was in Reno, …
Economy + Society
Florence is 'capital of Europe'
Festival d'Europa returns May 7 to 12
by Kevin Manley
As the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, Florence and the region of Tuscany have long had a ‘European calling.’ For this reason, Florence was chosen as the home of the European University Institute (EUI), which studies the activities and development of …
Places + Travel
Top 10 things to do in Prato
Exploring Florence's neighbour
About 24 kilometers from the center of Florence—a 20-minute train trip—is Tuscany’s second largest city, Prato, home to some 190,000 people, including Italy’s second-largest Chinese community. A day (or more!) in Prato reveals the many ways the city’s important historic and …
Expats in Florence
Melbourne in Prato
Monash University?s Prato Centre
By now well established in Prato, Monash University’s Italian site, founded in 2001, serves more than 700 students a year, offering a wide range of academic programmes in humanities, law, art, design & architecture and business & economics. The choice of …
Expats in Florence
Connecticut in Prato
The University of New Haven?s Prato campus
The University of New Haven established its first and only international campus in Prato in autumn 2012. With 35 students a semester, the university offers a changing programme of classes to give every New Haven student, no matter his or her …
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Universities unite!
Prato Campus Week
From May 4 to 11, Prato will be filled with beats, food and even group sporting events, all part of a joint program of Prato’s three universities, promoting interaction not only among themselves, but also with universities in nearby Florence. With …
Economy + Society
Prato's PIN
Where study and research connect
To say that the Polo Universitario Città di Prato (PIN) is a satellite campus of the University of Florence seems reductive, but it is the most immediate way to label this innovative educational structure. In truth, with more research labs than …
Life
A German in the hills of Tuscany
Recreating baroque musical instruments
A passion for music led German-born artisan Karl Till Riecke to choose an unusual occupation: rebuilding musical instruments from the baroque period in the hills of Tuscany.
Till started playing the cello at 10, and after leaving his studies at a musical …
Life
So you want to dress like an Italian?
A guide to Springtime fashion in Florence
By Raquel Silva
Spring has arrived! With a perfect combination of sunshine and a crisp, cool breeze, it is finally time to shed your layers, and, if you’re Italian, to retire your fur-hooded fluff-bag coats.
One of the more exciting things about studying …
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013