English News Magazine in Florence

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Florence remembers its 300 who were deported to Auschwitz

January 27 also sees the installation of ‘Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto’ (the Western Wailing

2020: the year ahead in Florence

From Artusi to Raphael and a plastic-free drive

January 27 also sees the installation of ‘Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto’ (the Western Wailing

Florence is looking to the future, while focusing on the problems of the present with

January 29, 2020

Autonomous museums, take 2

New international search for museum directors

An announcement made today in Rome opens up an international search for 13 more directors of autonomous museums.

Alexandra Korey

January 22, 2020

San Felice tabernacle restored to former glory

An obscured fresco sees the light again, thanks to Friends

January 7, 2020

2020: the year ahead in Florence

From Artusi to Raphael and a plastic-free drive

Florence is looking to the future, while focusing on the problems of the present with a multi-million euro

January 27, 2020

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Florence remembers its 300 who were deported to Auschwitz

January 27 also sees the installation of ‘Il Muro Occidentale o del Pianto’ (the Western Wailing Wall) in the

January 17, 2020

Travel matters at Stazione Leopolda

Buy Tourism Online returns to Florence

January 8, 2020

Car2Gone

Florence’s largest car-sharing leaves town

January 7, 2020

2020: the year ahead in Florence

From Artusi to Raphael and a plastic-free drive

Florence is looking to the future, while focusing on the problems of the present with a multi-million euro

January 2, 2020

Ramps relit

New lighting at the Rampe del Poggi

A new night-time lighting system was switched on at the Rampe del Poggi on December 20.

HIGHLIGHTS

Travel matters at Stazione Leopolda

Buy Tourism Online returns to Florence

Car2Gone

Florence’s largest car-sharing leaves town

2020: the year ahead in Florence

From Artusi to Raphael and a plastic-free drive

Ramps relit

New lighting at the Rampe del Poggi

LIFESTYLE

Strike a pose

Let me get this straight: Florence is not New York or San Francisco, but it does have a vibrant LGBTQIA+ scene that needs to be discovered and told.

Ripple effect

Seek, Create, Inspire and Empower

Helping others

In a place renowned for its fine food, it is heartbreaking to know that so many go without. Thankfully, there are a number of local groups dedicated to balancing the scales.

Pitti Uomo 97: In Pictures

Polimoda, Fiskars by Maria Korkeila and Pitti people

Good intentions

Plans and aspirations for 2020 from The Florentine's staff

LdM Institute gains a new hub

Former San Firenze courthouse to host cultural association

Florida State University to move

New Palazzo Bagnesi Falconeri hub

FOOD + WINE

Shake-up

Ego Circus, a four-month mixology festival in Florence’s bars

Nugolo: garden of goodness

Home-grown bounty near Sant'Ambrogio market

Thanksgiving in Florence 2019

Turkey in Tuscany

Michelin starred restaurants in Florence for 2020

Fine dining in the Tuscan city: 2 new stars

Dinner among friends: Cooking in Florence

Cooking in Florence dinner experience

145 years of good grub: Florence’s central market

SLoWrenzo Storico Mercato Centrale (aka the ground floor)

Michelin starred restaurants in Tuscany for 2020

1 three-star, 4 two-star and 36 one-star restaurants

CULTURE

Consonno: Italy’s long-lost Las Vegas

Italian Sketches

Oggetti della fuga – Escape Objects

Photographs of "escape objects" at the Kunsthistorishches Institute in Florence

#200Vieusseux

The Gabinetto Vieusseux is celebrating its 200th anniversary

Cultural twinning between the Uffizi and Siena

Masaccio’s Madonna del Solletico to be shown in Siena

Wilde about Florence

A summer vacation to Italy

Winter exhibitions in Prato

Post-Caravaggio, the former USSR and Pinocchio

Travel

Stationary

Florence's other stations

Tuscany and Piedmont: lands of similarities

Langhe Monferrato Roero and Valdichiana Senese + Val d’Orcia

Land and water in the Mugello

A natural playground for outdoor-sports enthusiasts

Experiencing the grape harvest in the Maremma

"Vendemmia" in Southern Tuscany

Friends at Sea

Amici del Mare is a short documentary film examining surf culture and lifestyle on the Tuscan Coast

Harvest and more in Seggiano

Sip wine, gaze at the exhibition, learn something

Thought for food

Summer events at Potentino

VIDEO

Video: South doors on display in the Opera del Duomo Museum

Michelangelo’s Pietà to undergo public restoration

South door of Florence Baptistery on the move: video

Nelli’s Last Supper restored: the video

Firenze dall’alto – Florence from above

Jan van Huysum’s painting returned to the Palazzo Pitti

Lightning strikes Palazzo Vecchio: Video

South door replica of Florence Baptistery unveiled