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Maggio members contaminated
Mayor
Renzi flew to Bombay, India on March 29 for a 48-hur trip to hear the Maggio
Musicale Orchestra in concert during a leg of its international tour. Following
the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, part of the orchestra and staff returned
to Florence, while …
Florence News
Lost and found,
A
panel depicting a Madonna with Child and San Giovannino, made in the workshop
of Ridolfo di Ghirlandaio, son of Renaissance master Domenico Ghirlandaio, was
recently discovered in the deposits of the Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze bank,
forgotten there for decades. The artist (or …
Florence News
New Etruscan museum,
After
46 years of research and archaeological digs at four sites totalling 39 square
kilometres that yielded, 10,000 fragments, officials from the province of Prato
recently opened an Etruscan archaeological museum in Artimino. The new museum,
with more than 600 square metres of exhibition space, …
Tuscany News
Tuscany to the rescue
Accepting refugees from North Africa
Regional
officials have set up refugee camps in several Tuscan cities for some of the
20,000 refugees from North African who fled to the tiny island of Lampedusa since
the start of conflict in North Africa's Arab countries (see national news on
page 5 for …
Tuscany News
Elba waters in danger?
Plastic suffocates the Mediterranean
Some
500 tonnes of garbage and plastic are floating in the Mediterranean Sea, with a
concentration that almost surpasses the ‘islands of plastic' floating in the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans, much of it plastic bags. The largest mound of
trash is located near Elba Island, …
Tuscany News
Stars shine in Cortona
Sharon Stone and Jeremy Irons at festival this summer
This
year's Tuscan Sun Festival promises great talents from the silver screen.
Actors Sharon Stone and Jeremy Irons will make a special appearance at the
annual festival in Cortona, which runs from July 31 to August 7.
The
two Hollywood stars will perform together on August …
Tuscany News
High-speed Tuscany
Starting April 26, Tuscany will have
a new high-speed train line in the RegioFast network that will connect Florence
and Grosseto in 2 hours and 35 minutes, cutting a half-hour from the trip. The
RegioFast train that will service the route will leave from …
Tuscany News
Attack on Livorno barracks
On
March 30, a parcel bomb exploded in the military barracks of the Folgore
parachute brigade in Livorno, seriously injuring the officer who opened the
large, brown envelope. Lieutenant-Colonel Alessandro Albamonte was immediately
rushed to the hospital in Florence, where doctors said that along with …
Tuscany News
Pedalling to help
In
Pisa, police officers have a new beat: patrolling pedestrian-only areas to
assist with medical emergencies. Noting that ambulances often cannot reach
pedestrian zones, Pisa began dispatching police on specially equipped bicycles,
equipped with a first aid kit and a defibrillator. Still in the pilot …
Tuscany News
Bunga bunga bar
The
new bar at Corso Mazzini 32 in the Tuscan port city of Livorno, the
left-most-leaning city in Italy with a long-standing satirical tradition, has
taken its name right out of the news: 'bunga bunga.' The term has become part
of everyday language in Italy, …
Tuscany News
Outdoor yoga
Three
wood structures in green areas in Pisa's Sasso Pisano are invitations to
residents and visitors to practice yoga in the open air. Located in the
municipality of Castelnuovo Val di Cecina (Pisa), the small town of Sasso
Pisano built the yoga huts'in natural areas …
Italy News
Monumental work,
Mimmo Paladino solo show in Milan
From
April 7 through July 10, Milan's piazza Duomo will come alive with a new
monumental work, Mountain of Salt,
by contemporary artist Mimmo Paladino. The work is part of an exhibition
focused on the Campania-born artist. Other works will be on display in the
nearby …
Italy News
In American hands?
DiBenedetto closes in on AS Roma
An American consortium will likely
own a controlling stake in one of Italy's most popular soccer teams competing
in the Italian national league, AS Roma. Three-time Serie A champions, the AS
Roma football club has been up for sale since July 2010, when owner
Italpetroli, …
Italy News
Neck and neck
Renzi and Tosi best-loved mayors
The elected heads of Florence and
Verona are the best loved in all of Italy. Confirming the 2010 results of the
annual Monitor Città (see ‘FiRenzi most loved!' in TF 128), conducted by the
Fullresearch Institute, which measures Italian citizens' satisfaction with
mayors' performance, Florence …
Italy News
Power wears pink
Women's boardroom quotasa reward for ?long battle'
Italy lags behind the rest of Europe
when it comes to gender equality in the workplace and in the labour market. A
bill for women's boardroom quotas was recently greenlighted in March by the
Italian Senate's Finance Committee, earning the praise of women across …
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