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Maggio and Ort singing the blues
Italy's oldest music festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,
continues to face increasing debt, to the tune of over 15 million euro, as
Maggio …
Florence News
Safer city
The number of reported crimes in Florence dropped in 2010, according to data released by the
Florence Prefect's Office. Compared to the …
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Dante celebrated
The cities in which Florence's famed poet Dante
Alighieri lived, Florence, Ravenna and Verona, will team up to promote the
poet. Officials from the three …
Florence News
Bus stops with a story
Over the holidays, Ataf officials started a new
project to better inform commuters and tourists about Florence's rich history and ancient traditions. …
Florence News
Six statues
As part of the 2011 celebrations of 150 years of
Italian unity, the city of Florence recently announced it would fund the …
Florence News
Renting Palazzo Vecchio
As of January 1, 2011, the price to rent one of Palazzo Vecchio's eight monumental rooms is
up. The cost to private …
Tuscany News
Intangible asset
Siena's Palio a UNESCO candidate
The city of Siena will apply to add its Palio to the UNESCO Representative List of
Non-Material Cultural Heritage, those which, unlike an architectural site, are
events or traditions that symbolize a populace or civilization.
Citing the annual competition as a patrimony of the
human …
Tuscany News
The year of youth
Tuscany to support younger generations
Officials recently introduced a three-year,
300-million-euro project to help the region's thousands of jobless youth. ‘For
the region, 2011 will the year of …
Tuscany News
Calling entrepreneurs
Pisa contest
for 'young' ideas
‘Young new ideas change the province,' a competition
to encourage the development of entrepreneurship in the younger generation, has
been announced by the …
Tuscany News
Adopt a monument
New program seeks donors
As Italy marks 150 years of unity, the nation faces an
enormous backlog of work to restore and preserve countless monuments, symbols
of Italy's vast historic, cultural and artistic heritage.
Looking for ways to preserve these historic monuments,
the regional boards of the ministry of …
Tuscany News
Powered by sun and sea
The Tuscan island of Capraia will soon run on clean energy alone. The small isle
plans to produce and use clean energy …
Tuscany News
Spotting blight
In an effort to spur the Viareggio city council to action, a group of citizens has
started a new website, www.viareggiono.blogspot.com, to …
Tuscany News
2010 traffic stats
There were over 5,000 car accidents and 49 people lost
their lives on Tuscany's road and highways in 2010, according to the
region's …
Tuscany News
Carrara eyes Guinness
Carrara, famed source of marble, recently made another claim
to notoriety: the site of the world's longest Christmas stocking. With a
stocking 72.98 …
Tuscany News
Stefano Massei awarded
President of the Tuscan region, Enrico Rossi, recently
bestowed on Stefano Massei, engineer from Pisa, the region's Pegaso d'argento for his role …
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Sunday, May 19, 2013