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Five-day-after pill now available
Similar to the morning-after pill, this new medicine
works up to five days after unprotected sex. The pill, called Ellaone, which
has been available in 39 countries around the world since 2009, became
available in Italy on April 2.
Ellaone is
available only with a doctor's …
Sport News
Championships in numbers
Funding for world cycling event
The committee for the world cycling championship, to
be held in Tuscany in September 2013, is putting pressure on the government to
plan ahead: to decide what funds are going to be available for the event, and
what construction projects need to be done …
Sport News
Tee-off from the tower
Preview of Audi in Golf City 2012
On April 4 Italian
golfer Giulia Sergas teed off in an unusual location: from the top of Palazzo
Vecchio's Arnolfo tower to a hole below in Piazza Signoria.
The spectacular tee-off was a preview of an upcoming event. In October,
when the Audi in Golf …
Sport News
Vivicitta on April 15
Last chance to sign up
On April 15, the
29th annual Vivicittà Florence Half Marathon will include races for every type
of runner. There is a new 21.097 km competitive race, a 10 km race, and a
shorter foto race for kids, the Tommasino Run.
The event begins at 9am …
Florence News
Easter with a bang!
A day of doves, eggs and fireworks
Every year,
Florence celebrates Easter with an explosion of colour and fire. A giant cart,
pulled by two white oxen festooned with garlands of flowers, winds its way
through the city centre, escorted by a lively and colourful parade of musicians
and flag-throwers in medieval …
Write the Mayor
Write the Mayor
Dear Mayor Renzi,
What does Florence plan on doing in
the future for Rare Diseases Day? Other areas of Italy held events for the big
awareness day on February 29, but it appears that nothing was organized in
Florence. To spread awareness and understanding of …
Florence News
Bridge between cultures
Italy remembers fellow Florentine Fosco Maraini
This year is the centenary of the birth of Fosco
Maraini, the Florentine orientalist, writer, mountaineer and photographer who
died in 2004.
Maraini
travelled and lived mainly in Tibet and Japan, photographing and recording
cultures that were slowly disappearing, such as the Ainu people of Hokkaido.
After …
Florence News
Symbols in the spotlight ,
Museum of Masonry opens in Oltrarno
A new museum in the San Frediano
neighborhood catalogues through photographs, artifacts, and documents the
turbulent history of the world's Freemasons.
The Museum of Masonic Symbols was the idea of Cristiano Franceschini. He
represents the fourth generation of Freemasons in his family, which has
collected more …
Florence News
Adoration needs restoration
Leonardo in the spotlight, again
All the
attention on Leonardo da Vinci following the announcement of results in the
search for the lost Battle of
Anghiari (see cover
story in TF 159) has brought up the plight of another Leonardo painting.
Marco
Ciatti, superintendant of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, has declared …
Florence News
A Medici diamond
Maria de' Medici's prized jewel on the block
The legendary Beau Saucy, the 34.98 carat pear-cut
diamond that once belonged to Maria de' Medici, will be put on auction on May
15 at Sotheby's in Geneva.
Of great
historical importance, the Beau Saucy was a gift from Prince Henri IV of France
to his …
Florence News
Art on loan ,
Civic library in San Casciano offers new service
Modern libraries have become more than just a place to
get books. This is why the civic library of San Casciano Val di Pesa, in the
province of Florence, has started loaning out artworks in addition to its
collection of books, magazines, movies and …
Community News
Easter fund-raiser at St. James
On Saturday, March 31, from 4 to 6pm, the
St. James Children's Lending Library will hold an Easter egg decorating party
in the St. James Church Undercroft.
Featuring Easter egg decorating and other
arts-and-crafts activities, a cake lottery, a surprise draw and refreshments,
the event promises …
Florence News
Very Florentine flowerpots
The large, old,
terracotta flowerpots preserved in villas around the city are the inspiration
for 22 plant containers that will grace the new pedestrian stretch of via
Tornabuoni. At 600 euro each, the pots, one meter in diameter, reflect research
into the traditional shapes, materials …
Florence News
Former jail goes high-tech
Among the
programs that the City of Florence has introduced to encourage high-tech
innovation is the public competition for space at the multi-use complex of Le
Murate. The results of the competition are in: of the 30 companies that
applied, seven have been selected each …
Community News
Erasmus vs. Junior Year Abroad
Student FORum 2012
by
Laura Barnum
With the seats in the room
almost filled, the Student
FORum: Under TwentyFOUR: Erasmus Generation vs. Junior Year Abroad,
sponsored by Fairfield University,
the City of Florence Project Link, the University of Florence, the
Centre Jean Monnet, and the Toscana-USA Association, was another
success. Held on …
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