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Luca, we hardly knew you
Fiorentinas lead striker transferred to Bayern
Viola fans are mourning the loss of their virtuoso striker, Luca Toni. Toni’s move to Bayern Munich was the first big deal of the Italian soccer market this year. The German club paid over 11 million euro to sign the famed …
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Beaten at his own game
Moto GP - Rossi outflanked by young Aussie
Five-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi may have finally met his match. On Sunday’s thrilling Catalunya Grand Prix, Ducati’s Casey Stoner beat Rossi over the finish line by only 0.069th of a second and collected his fourth victory of the season against …
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Upward and onward
Soccer - Serie B. Genoa and Napoli secure a spot in Serie A
Genoa and Napoli were both promoted to Serie A on Sunday after a tense, goalless draw on the final day of the season. The game in Genoa was billed as a virtual promotion playoff, but in the end the two sides …
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Battened and bruised
Sailing - Italians eliminated at Americas Cup
Italy’s Luna Rossa was defeated by Team New Zealand at the Louis Vuitton Cup (LVC) final in Valencia weeks ago. The Kiwis quashed the Italians 5-0, wiping out their hopes of an America’s Cup qualification.
The result is a repeat of the …
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Ferrari flunks out in Montreal
Formula 1
The 22-year-old McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton dominated the Montreal race to take an eight- point championship lead—the largest advantage anybody has had this season—over his team-mate Fernando Alonso. Nobody has won the world title in a first season since Giuseppe Farina …
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Asian persuasion
Living in Chinese
Stroll down via Cavour from Piazza San Marco and pay attention to the shops on both sides of the street before you reach the Duomo. Within 500 metres, you will find at least six shops owned by Asian people, or more …
Florence News
Wrangling with words
San Lorenzo seeks peaceful solution to crisis between merchants and street vendors
After months of heated disputes and physical altercations between shop-keepers and illegal street vendors in the historic San Lorenzo quartiere, the two sides have finally moved toward an amicable resolution. When two young Senegalese men were injured in a confrontation with …
Florence News
Frenzy over the family
Florence hosts National Conference on the Family
Florence warmly welcomed president of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, while he was in the city to attend the much-discussed three-day National Conference on the Family. Accompanied by 10 members of parliament and over 2,000 participants, city, provincial and regional representatives …
Florence News
Paved Paradise
Imagine the pleasure of swirling a glass of Chianti as you nipple fresh pecorino cheese and Tuscan crostini on a breezy outdoor terrace. As part of an initiative of by the Confesercenti of Florence, a merchant’s association, and embraced by city …
Florence News
I love my MTV
Music on demand will be broadcast from Florence
The popular MTV programme Total Request Live has Florence on its hit list this summer. From June 5 to 15, Piazzale Michelangelo will be ‘the place to be’ for the city’s music-video aficionados.
TRL is a live, video-on-demand programme filmed from a …
Florence News
From Benigni to Ziggy and Spike Lee, too
Over 450 events in Estate Fiorentinas line-up
Over 450 events in Estate Fiorentina’s line-up
Artistic director of this year’s edition of Estate Fiorentina—tra dialogo e diavolo, Florentine rocker Piero Pelù, has officially announced the programme of events. Fifteen venues throughout the city will host live performances by Ennio Morricone, …
Florence News
Fight the flab alfresco
The city celebrates sport and nature
Over the next month fat-blasting classes will be held in Florence’s Cascine Park and other piazzas in the historic centre. Inaugurated on May 21 in Piazza Santo Spirito, Florence’s thirteenth edition of Vivi lo sport nel tuo verde will feature outdoor …
Florence News
Tuscan trash smells rotten
Offal links between Tuscany and the south
For weeks, the southern Italian region of Campania has been gasping for air as it drowns in trash. But does all of the garbage come from the own region? Inquests by the district attorney’s offi ce of Naples and the anti-mafi …
Florence News
Taxis take a hike
An agreement between the Radio Taxi Cooperative and the Tourism Authority of Florence has set taxi fares for long-distance rides to and from hotels in the historic centre. For example a ride from a hotel in the centre to Perentola Airport …
Florence News
Uffizi scores a deal
After a year-long effort, the Uffizi gallery has added to its collection a priceless thirteenth century painting by celebrated Florentine painter Maestro del Bargello. La Madonna con bambino in trono tra due angeli, a small tempera on wood created in 1230, …
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013