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Alexandra Korey is Head of Digital at The Florentine's sister company, Flod. She specializes in social media & digital strategy for tourism, culture and wine. In a past life, she was an art history professor with a PhD from the University of Chicago. For fun, she writes her blog www.arttrav.com, where she's been reporting on art, culture and life in Italy since 2004.
There’s a vast part of Tuscany that remains off most tourists’ radars, despite its vast green spaces, profound culture, mountains and thermal baths. The Valdinievole refers to 11 comuni in ...
When you live in Florence, you don’t visit the Duomo very often. Maybe if you have a visitor, you go inside. But when’s the last time you actually bought a ...
Cleaning Michelangelo’s David is a pretty stressful job. Emanuela Peiretti, working as a team with Paola Rosa, says she hardly slept the night before she first laid hands on the ...
For some, it may have seemed like a normal February weekend in Florence, with some spectacular spring weather and a good crowd of both locals and tourists downtown. But to ...
The decision to cover up classical nude statues in Rome’s Capitoline museums during the visit of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has sparked controversy and ridicule worldwide. A news conference with President Rouhani and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was held in a room in the Roman museum;
The Florentine and LdM news co-present our top picks for events in Florence during the winter of 2016.
A fun contemporary art installation by Paola Pivi adds a touch of humour to the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi this winter.
The concert series “Note al Museo” is the first initiative planned by the new Opera del Duomo Museum to open up the space to other forms of art. Four free evening concerts have been announced for December 17, 2015, January 21, February 25 and March 17, 2016 at
The crowd has spoken and it says namaste. The 15th River to River Indian Film Festival will take place in Florence from December 5 to 10, 2015, thanks in part to the $15,791 raised through crowdfunding on Indiegogo this fall. This is the first large, successful crowdfunding for a
What have you been reading on The Florentine? In 2015, our website saw more than half a million visitors – these are the top articles they were reading, from secret bakeries to swimming pools. Explaining the expression ‘Prego’ Linda Falcone explains the meaning of this all-
Design, crafts and more original gifts are popping up in Florence and the city’s environs this holiday season. Source is an annual exhibition and workshop series that focuses on ...
An exceptional collaboration between cities, regions and museums has resulted in the recomposition of a tryptych – that was likely a larger polyptych or multi-paneled altarpiece – by the Sicilian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina that will remain on display at the Uffizi for the next 15 years. &
From sexy (or not) lingerie to wall paint and diets, white in Italian language is much more omnipresent than it is in English!
With the Day of the Dead upon us, there are plenty of spooky opportunities around Florence and Tuscany if you want to give yourself a good scare. From ghostly sightings in Tuscan castles as well as in Florence itself, to headless men and buried babies, our favourite part of Italy
The 15th annual edition of the Florence River to River Indian Film Festival will take place from December 5-10, 2015. To make it even better than usual, the Festival ...
ph. Claudio Giovannini / Grande Museo del Duomo Lorenzo Ghiberti’s North Doors for Florence’s Baptistery have been under restoration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure on via degli Alfani for ...
In the Renaissance city, modern sacred art often goes un-noticed, yet the period from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth centuries was one of fertile production of a spirituality rendered visual by Italian and international artists. Some 100 of these expressions, in paint, print
At the end of just about any meal in Tuscany, be it at home or at a restaurant, chances are you’ll be offered cantucci and vin santo. Let’s look at ...
At the end of 2014, Opera di Santa Croce (OSC), with the help of The Florentine and Ares Games, raised $102,426 in a hair-raisingly fast month on Kickstarter to support the much-needed restoration of an important part of a cultural landmark: the loggia of the Pazzi Chapel.
Following an international call last year (see our reports here and here), the new “supermanagers” of Italy’s top 20 museums were announced on August 18, 2015. The group is composed of 10 men and 10 women – including 7 foreigners from the EU (3 German, 2
Flooding, uprooted trees, flying dehors and damaged cars, as well as 15 injured, are the results of a tornado that hit Florence on the evening of August 1, 2015. Trains were suspended in the area due to a downed pole, and water service was interrupted in half the city for
With a starting bid of 22,200,000 euro, Sammezzano Castle is up for judicial auction scheduled for October 20, 2015. If I had to attach a sales description, I'd write something like this: For sale: Eccentric Moorish revival castle with kaleidoscopic 19th-century decorations commissioned by Ferdinand Panciatichi
