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Hostage pavilions released
Court of appeals drops charges against Fiera
The coast is clear for Firenze Fiera after the municipal court of appeal’s decision to unlock the eight pavilions recently sequestered by municipal police in response to unauthorized construction projects within the Fortezza da Basso. After weeks of wavering, the judge …
Florence News
Star light, star bright
Galilean celebrations begin in the city
The scientific world will take centre stage in the city over the next five months as celebrations begin in honour of Galileo Galiei, the father of modern science and astronomy. Museums all over the city will open their doors, offering free …
Florence News
No place and no mime
Street art constricted by new laws
The artists, musicians and mimes of Florence took to the streets and piazzas last week in protest of the restrictive city by-laws that limit their livelihood. Once abounding with performers, Florence today offers limited space where artists are allowed to entertain …
Florence News
A home for the Rom
New Rom campgrounds in Sesto Fiorentino raise concern
The mayor of Sesto Fiorentino announced last week that via Fumaioli will become a new public space dedicated to the nomadic Rom people living in and around Florence. Once constructed, the campsite will be like a ‘small village’ designed to give …
Florence News
Out on the street
Evictions cause alarm among citizens
Over the last several months, more than 18,000 evictions have been ordered in Tuscany due to tenants’ inability to pay their monthly rent. Eight thousand of these evictions were ordered in the city of Florence alone. This worrisome trend has filled …
Florence News
Music fest 'rocked'
Last week, just five months after the decision to transfer Italy’s largest music festival, Italia Wave, from Arezzo to Florence, it was announced that the event will be held in yet a different site. Instead of Villa Montalvo in the Campi …
Tuscany News
A whale of a time
Paleontologists from the Gruppo Mineralogia e Paleontologia of Scandicci have made an amazing discovering right in the heart of the Sienese Chianti. Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a complete whale skeleton—the Mediterranean’s largest ever–hidden beneath the grape vines of …
Florence News
Pardoned and put to work
Seventy ex-inmates from Florence’s correctional institutions will soon be working in businesses throughout the province. They are part of a national re-integration project, ‘Italia Lavoro’, which aims to educate prisoners released from jail. Through the controversial Pardon Law designed to solve …
Florence News
Greenpeace mourns black tide
The coast off the seaside city of Livorno is still reeling after 9 tons of oil spilled into the sea last week. Experts believe that the ship, owned by oil company Chem Star Eagle, was damaged by its own anchor while …
Florence News
New yorker toasts the town
Syracuse hosts legendary American satirist
Syracuse University in Florence opens a noteworthy exhibit this month called ‘American Satire: Humor in The New Yorker’. The show features 38 cartoons created between 1926 and 1966 by The New Yorker’s most prolific artist, Alan Dunn, whose satire epitomizes the …
Florence News
Everything but the kitchen sink
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. The three R’s are the name of the day for local researchers who have recently discovered and patented a new combustible substance, made from kitchen scraps, which could soon be used to heat homes. This novel combustible fuel, …
Florence News
Crusade for kids
Region fights immigrant drop-out rate
Home to Italy’s largest foreign student population, Tuscany hosts about 34,000 students from immigrant families, who make up 7.3 percent of elementary and high school students in the entire region. The highest number of immigrant students is in Florence, at nearly …
Florence News
How time flies
Study reveals different temporal perceptions
Have you ever wondered why the time seems to fly by when you’re having fun, yet the minutes seem to drag when you’re bored? A team of international researchers, the majority of whom come from Tuscany, has come up with the …
Italy News
Bridge over troubled waters?
Allies relieved by Senate's Afghan position
The US government considers Italy’s re-cent hostage swap with the Taliban ‘a closed case’, top US State Department official Daniel Fried told reporters last week. ‘Italy plays a key role in supporting the people and the government of Afghanistan. Despite recent …
Italy News
Canning the Camorra
Mass arrest of mob-linked suspects
Italy’s most wanted Camorra boss, Vincenzo Di Lauro, was arrested last week, one of several efforts to halt mob activity in the southern city of Naples. Mayor Rosa Russo Jervolino hailed Di Lauro’s capture as an ‘extraordinary success’ which ‘dealt a …
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013