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Pecci takes on Milan,
Contemporary Tuscan art centre goes north
For the duration of a two-year long restoration project in Prato, Tuscany's official contemporary art centre, the Pecci Centre of Contemporary Art, recently opened a satellite museum in Milan. The new Museo Pecci Milano was inaugurated on April 14, on occasion …
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Digging for answers
Researchers on the hunt for Caravaggio's bones
A mass grave near a small chapel along the Tuscan coast, in the area of Porto Ercole, Grosseto, contains the remains of Caravaggio, according to a group of scholars. One of Italy's most controversial artists, Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, is …
Florence News
End discrimination now
Local association to support gay rights
Just days before Italy's Constitutional Court rejected suits on April 14 by several Italian gay couples in Trento and Venice who had challenged the Italian law that bans gay marriages, a well-known civil rights lawyer in Florence, Saveria Ricci, launched Italy's …
Florence News
Fines of consciousness
Local environmentalists slap SUVs with symbolic' tickets
Although Florence has a municipal law banning SUVs from the historic centre, these large, high-polluting cars can be found there anyway. Volunteers from a local environmentalist association, Terra!recently hit the streets, putting ‘fines' on windshields of SUVs. The pink sheets, similar …
Florence News
Cloud of ash hits Tuscany
The volcano that erupted in Iceland in mid April, spewing a massive ash cloud and paralyzing air traffic across northern Europe, is even affecting Tuscany. Both the Pisa and Florence airports were shut down on April 14 and 15, resulting in …
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ORT auditions,
The Orchestra della Toscana (ORT) is looking for musicians, and the ORT Foundation is currently holding auditions: see section ‘auditions and contest' at www.orchestradellatoscana.it. After the audition, the shortlist will be maintained for three years. All European Union citizens 18 years …
Florence News
Kids learn crafts,
As part of the 74th International Handcraft Fair (ART) at the Fortezza da Basso, two free workshops will introduce children to the artisan trades. Called Artisans in the Family, the workshops are organized by the Horne Museum of Florence. Each workshop …
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Pisa tower stops leaning
Over the last 10 years, the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been straightened by 28 millimetres. Since its construction, the structure has always moved slightly, its incline increasing over the centuries. In the 1990s, a system of counterbalances was installed to …
Florence News
Synagogue under new light
Europe's largest Jewish temple, the Florence Synagogue, recently inaugurated a new lighting system that will illuminate it at night. The system is part of an intensive 15-year restoration project. The work, which cost 2,658,000 euro, was possible through the support of …
Community News
Contemporary passions
Cultural Association Il Palmerino spotlights women in the arts
An ancient villa whose revolutionary spirit lives on is a fitting setting for events spotlighting women's creativity. Il Palmerino, the villa once owned by British writer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), is hosting a series called Women in the Arts: Portraits and …
Italy News
Little man with moustache' moves out
Iconic coffeepot closes Piedmont plant
The Bialetti firm, maker of the world-famous Moka Express for the past 77, years recently announced that it plans to transfer its production plant and operations from northern Italy to China and Eastern Europe.
Although the firm has not set a precise …
Italy News
Emergency workers freed
Staff detained in Afghanistan for alleged murder plot
In the days following the April 10 raid by Afghan polic, intelligence agents and NATO-ISAF military forces on the surgical centre in southern Afghan city of Lashkar-gah run by the Italian nonprofit organization Emergency (www.emergency.it), the Italian government and Emergency sought …
Italy News
Ciao, Raimondo
Italy mourns the gentleman of TV'
One of Italy's greatest television personalities, Raimondo Vianello, passed away in Milan's San Raffaele hospital on April 15 at 88.
Widely considered a pioneer of Italian television, the elegant and classy Vianello was a TV and cinema actor, a comedian and TV …
Italy News
Cleaning the capital
American diplomats in Rome get their hands dirty
Tired of the graffiti and garbage littering the streets of Rome, three United States ambassadors decided to take concrete steps against urban blight. They organized an American-style community clean-up in Trastevere.
Through an American volunteer association in Rome, David Thorne, José Miguel …
Italy News
Cannes 2010
Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Alberto Barbera will represent Italy at the 63th Festival di Cannes, from May 12 to 23, 2010. Luchetti will present La nostra vita, starring Elio Germano, Isabella Aragonese and Raoul Bova in the competition for the Golden Palm; …
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Saturday, May 25, 2013