LIGHT MODE
DARK MODE
Most popular
The Florentine
Marco Badiani is the co-founder and director of The Florentine. He's better known as the magazine's in-house photographer and photo editor.
Happy New Year! And what a year 2015 is going to be for Florence! As we compiled the events listing for this issue, we saw that the next 12 months are packed with exciting events that promise to put Florence on the global map once and for all. Here is
On September 25, 26 and 27, the former convent of Sant’Orsola came back to life. A vast space stretching 5,000 square metres above the ground and a massive 17,000 square metres across three subterranean levels, Sant’Orsola (and the San Lorenzo neighbourhood) hosted The
Pitti Immagine is the only international fashion event in Florence. Twice a year, the city attracts fashion and media personalities on a par with the fashion weeks of Milan, Paris or New York. And twice a year, I go over to the Fortezza da Basso, do some street fashion photography,
If you're planning to spend this weekend away from Florence, I highly recommend you cancel: those who consider themselves ‘gastronauts' shouldn't dare leave the city during the Taste food fair and its companion FuoriDiTaste event. Taste has grown up, and today, in its fifth year, we
A new decade has begun and the optimism app has been rebooted-perhaps unconsciously and slowly, but without fail. To hell with the financial crisis. Be grateful that you are here, at ...
Let's prepare to fight for our lives-in a positive way. The frugality ‘formula', which I have written about in previous issues of The Florentine, has appealed to a number of people who found it sexy and attractive. I confess that I have adhered to the formula because
A local woman once remarked to us, ‘Believe it or not, it’s not easy being from Florence. While sharing our city’s beauty with millions of visitors from around the ...
Brenda, our news editor, recently showed me an interesting statistic from the Contribuenti.it website: one in four Italians recycle their gifts! According to Wikipedia, ‘regifting' is the ‘act of taking a gift that has been received and giving it to somebody else, sometimes in the guise of
I was already sufficiently worried about the health of our planet when one day, all of the sudden, I, like all of you, got caught in the once-in-a-century economic ...
Patricia Kinsella is the curator of the Prato Textile Museum's current exhibit, Superhuman Performance. A collection of over 80 garments, uniforms, kits and accessories, the exhibition boasts sportswear from past and present champion athletes, including Gino Bartali, Gustavo Thoeni, Valentino Rossi, Lance Armstrong, Alberto Tomba, Kimi Raikkonen and more.
Guides, bloggers, food-lovers and critics consider Marco Stabile, head chef at Ora d'Aria restaurant on via Ghibellina, one of the most important chefs in Florence. His restaurant has grown with patience and dedication; sustained and promoted by proprietor Luca Bellandi, and by his own excellent work. We invited
Though new rules promise to keep violence in check at this year’s calcio storico, you can still bet on plenty of testosterone. A combination of soccer, rugby and any sport requiring players to beat the stew out of each other, Florence’s annual match promises to be
Though everyone says September is the best month to visit Italy, The Florentine staff believes that May is the most interesting time to visit Florence and discover Tuscany. What's not to love? The city is both more relaxed and livelier. People dress lighter. The sweet spring air suggests the
Enjoy the beauty of Tuscany and the pleasure of wine at two of May's most delightful events: Alla Corte del Vino and Cantine Aperte. In the gardens of the splendid Villa Corsini, beautifully situated in the Chianti hills on the road leading from San Casciano to Mercatale, more
For 17 years, all of Italy has reserved the last Sunday in May for Cantine Aperte. Last year, over four million people visited the country's wineries during ‘Open Cellars' as they threw open their doors and showed off production facilities. My recipe for a great
She was a woman who lived and worked in a world of men. As a young journalist, she faced powerful rulers and world leaders with courage and pride, whether it was King Hussein of Jordan, Yassir Arafat or Henry Kissinger. She rode a tank in Vietnam. Her interview with
From March 15 to 17 at Florence’s Stazione Leopolda, the Taste food festival offers visitors a unique experience. Taste is a gastronomic tour that explores different cultures in addition to celebrating the natural goodness of Italian food. Sleek and stylish, as only an event organized by Pitti Immagine
Twelve months, ten thousand copies per issue, more than two hundred points of distribution. In Florence, every fifteen days ‘they wait’ for their freshly printed copy. Over twelve thousand people have visited the website over the last six months, and a hundred subscriptions have been sent to readers
Sir Richard Branson, eclectic patron of the British multinational Virgin, famous for his daring adventures, (including travelling around the globe in a hot air balloon) will be visiting Florence to celebrate Virgin Unite, his charity foundation, in an event hosting special guests Natalie Imbruglia and Lee Ryan. But Branson has
Gelato’s not just a summer pleasure anymore. According to a recent study promoted by the Confartigianato of Florence with the help of local ice-cream shops, 40 percent of indulging Florentines consider gelato appropriate to all seasons, and will often eat it as a substitute for their midday
If you’d like to know why a thousand languages were being spoken in Florence last week, who all the new faces were with all of those festive outfits, why all of the clothing shops were serving drinks and playing music, why traffic had reached Bangkok extremes, why you
“A road map of Tuscany in hand, the list of open wine cellars downloaded from www.movimentoturismovino.it in the glove compartment, and a desire for new eno-discoveries: the basics for starting off ...
