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Falcone Geddes is the editorial assistant at The Florentine and freelance contributor to Italy Segreta. A native Florentine with a passion for writing and photography, he holds an MA in Journalism and Documentary Practice from Sussex.
Tracksuits, fascist propaganda and UFOs: two brothers whose modernism never resolved its contradictions.
The French-born street artist reflects on vandalism, freedom, Florence, and why art can never be illegal.
“Music is a space for connection and dialogue”
The beginning of the year feels fixed and universal, yet, in Florence, the new year did not begin until March 25.
A reflection on the passing of the Fiorentina president, and of other recent tragedies at the purple club.
A tour of the Galileo Museum invites a reflection on the scientist from Pisa, who went on to transform humanity's conception of the cosmos.
The founders of the art gallery B.east and East Catering speak to The Florentine.
A dramatic redesign restores the Etruscan masterpiece to centre stage with immersive lighting and a circular layout.
In the wake of Patti Smith’s legendary performance, bands like Diaframma and Litfiba made Florence the centre of Italy’s new wave scene.
Founded where the Arno met the Mugnone, Florence has spent millennia reshaping, and being reshaped by, the waters that defined it.
A dark chapter of Florentine history gets the Netflix treatment, but the series never lives up to the morbid richness of its source material.
A halted football match in Florence, an eerie encounter in Arezzo and glowing skies over Rome left Italy searching for answers.
After decades of abandonment, safety works mark a new beginning for Tuscany’s extraordinary Moorish revival landmark.
Ahead of the sweeping ban, which will go into effect on October 15, we speak to driver, and founder of Rickshaw Florence, Karim Hendawy.
Step into the monumental Capalbio garden, kept alive through the dedication of her granddaughter Bloum Cardenas.
Studio Abba hosts a collection dedicated to the artist from Novi Sad, who bore the weight of the 20th century on his back.
The experience is a mix of open-air museum and nature hike.
The exhibition on Italian visual poetry and its main exponent Lamberto Pignotti forces us to confront today's AI and meme-saturated landscape.
The artwork had been hidden until 1880. Now it glows anew ahead of the exhibition on the Renaissance master at Palazzo Strozzi.
The south-eastern neighbourhood represents an unrealised ambition by visionary architects to create a brutalist and humane utopia.
A new room at the Gabinetto Scientifico G.P. Vieusseux celebrates Florence's most representative 20th-century author.
Beyond soccer, discover Guelfi Firenze, the team currently making waves in the Italian gridiron world.
A little Florence-based magazine that existed under fascism had an outsized impact on Italy's literary scene.
We visit the museum and take advantage of the opportunity to reflect on the notorious Monster of Florence.
