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Tourists in Florence

Text &Photos: The Florentine staff on the street
It's no secret that Florence is a tourist's town. The heady mix of art, food, wine and natural beauty lure more than 10 million visitors a year to Tuscany's capital city. We at The Florentine find it impossible to live here and not be curious about the individual visitors who make up such a …
Culture & Customs

Good luck guest

by Linda Falcone
Il fatto bello della settimana. Moments from everyday Italy
I have recently been accused of wanting all things in life to be lovely. And in a country where cynicism is a means of survival and a way …
Culture & Customs

Florentinisms

by Alexandra Lawrence
Your in-progress dictionary of florentine dialect
Linguists and scholars agree: the Florentine dialect …
Food & Wine

Date expectations

by Matt O'Leary
The first time that you cook for a date is, without any doubt, a nerve-wracking and important occasion. It might seem futile, given that in and around Florence you can't throw a stone without it ricocheting off the walls of at least three or four romantic hole-in-the-wall eateries. However, serving something that you've made yourself is …
Italian Sketches

Achille Lauro

by Deirdre Pirro
The Neapolitan Onassis
In October 1985, US fighter planes intercepted an Egypt airliner flying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro to freedom in Tunisia, forcing it to land in Sicily, where …
The Arts

The crime of the (seventeenth) century. An English scandal fascinates the Medici court

by Lisa Kaborycha
The Medici Archives
There is never any shortage of gruesome crimes to occupy the public's imagination. To be termed a ‘crime of the century', however, a murder must have special qualities that …
Sport & Leisure News

A new education

Playing football in Parma
Corey Mazza feels blessed to still be playing football.   The recent Harvard graduate thought his time in pads had ended as the clock ran out on his last collegiate game. The game Mazza grew up playing and learned to love in Thousand Oaks, CA was approaching the final scene in what he thought was the last act …
Florence News

Goblets of grievance

Vino Nobile now under scrutiny
The Tuscan wine scandal continues to unfold. …
Florence News

Easing integration

Tuscan city first to appoint Chinese superintendent
In a surprise move last week, Campi Bisenzo mayor Andrea Chini appointed a Chinese native to his city council. Hongyu Lin-Giada to her Italian friends-is the first Chinese citizen …
Current Issues

Revamping Italy

by Andrew J. Fitch
Berlusconi and the European Union
For many of us, Italy is a country of beautiful architecture, beautiful food and wine, and beautiful lifestyles. However, although people in other Western nations have been emulating Italian style …
The Arts

Creating culture

by Alexandra Lawrence
NYU Florence brings creativity to life
Have you ever longed to spend warm summer nights lounging in the garden of a world-renowned Tuscan villa overlooking the city of Florence? Have you dreamed …
Top Picks

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Closing Concert

July 1 at 9:30pm Piazza della …
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Fi-esta 2008

Until September 30
Various locations, Florence Florence's summer festival is back with concerts, theatre, ballet, poetry and more. Program information available at www.fi-esta.it   …
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Florence Youth Festival of Youth Orchestras

June 28-August 2
This year marks the 10th anniversary this exciting festival that brings together young musicians from all over the world for a program ranging from baroque to contemporary. Every year, …
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Giovanni da Milano

Until November 2
Accademia Gallery, Florence ‘Foreign' born painter Giovanni da Milano was one of the protagonists of the mid-fourteenth century Florentine and Tuscan art scene. He came to the city in 1346 …
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L'eredit di Giotto. Art in Florence 1340 - 1375

Until November 2, 2008
Uffizi Gallery, Florence When Giotto died in 1337, his …
The Arts

Enigma in Giorgio de Chirico's art

by Brenda Dionisi
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est?
‘One clear autumn afternoon I was sitting on a bench in the middle of the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. It was of course not the …
The Arts

The shape of the book: from the scroll to the codex

by Christopher Saint-Amand
Exhibit Review
Florence is not just a painter’s city. The Renaissance had as profound an impact on the written word. Florence was the center of this great humanist …

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