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The voice of 22nd-century Florence

Art is often about taking your own history and roots and weaving them a unique vision, a personal path towards the truest form of self-expression. Italo-Australian soprano Olivia Salvadori was ...

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The joy of walking

On Sunday, August 24, 1947, a young woman named Diana Athill boarded a train in London, bound for what Brits alone still call “the continent”.     She travelled over ...

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Italian music acts with international appeal

It’s that time of year again: the Internet is abuzz with band announcements, creatively designed posters and the promise of endless partying. Yes, it’s music festival moment. As echoes of ...

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A boiler’s life: a memoir

My real name is Anne-Marie Petty-FitzMaurice Bouvier, but everybody calls me La Caldaia. While it is la verità that I am an inanimate object, even a boiler has memories worthy ...

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Florence Cocktail Week returns with a splash

Mixology will take center stage from May 1 to 7: the second edition of Florence Cocktail Week—the first and only festival of its kind in Italy— will be served, straight ...

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Murray Lachlan Young to perform in Florence

Acclaimed British performance poet Murray Lachlan Young will bring his award-winning, multi-disciplinary repertoire to Florence’s Tasso Hostel for two dates in May. The evenings will be hosted by locally based actor ...

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Exploring soundscapes: Moodwel

Moodwel – a name that evokes and teases, a name that Pistoia based cousins Simone and Tommaso Allegri chose simply because of its sound, the founding element upon which their artistic ...

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Florence in technicolour

Whether perusing the inside of a fresco-filled palace or visually absorbing the Uffizi’s jewel-toned artworks, there could be little doubt in the minds of visitors and locals that Florence is ...

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Run through the art of Florence

Running events all year round through the art and architecture of Florence, from the Firenze Marathon to the Notturna di San Giovanni night run.

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The Returners

There are quite a lot of people on the planet who have entertained the thought of moving to Florence. Eavesdropping on enamored tourists’ conversations or reading a distinct subset of ...

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Vivicittà Half Marathon: standing up to bullying

On Sunday, April 9, the Vivicittà Half Marathon will take place in the streets of Florence—to have fun and to put an end to bullying.

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Contemporary luxury in Cristiano {room}

It’s Friday morning in Cristiano’s via Maggio atelier and he’s just taken a moment to wipe off his hands after stepping up from the workbench. Setting down his pliers, the ...

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4 foreign women entrepreneurs in Florence, Italy

Looking to start a business in Florence? Meet four successful female and foreign entrepreneurs who are living proof that it can be done - and brilliantly.

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My piazza dei Ciompi

I have been a contented country mouse for the better part of my 15 years in Italy, tucked snugly away in the ultimate sleepy Tuscan village where fresh air, quiet ...

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Velonotte: night biking in Florence

At 8pm on April 22, Florence will welcome a two-wheeled invasion. Cultural biking event Velonotte dates to 2006, when it first took place in Moscow—it’s the brainchild of Russian historian ...

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Top musical acts in Florence this summer

Music lovers and festival goers, look out: this summer the Visarno Arena will be bringing out the “fire” in Firenze. Held in the verdant innards of Cascine Park, the Firenze ...

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An interview with Edvige Giunta

  Suzanne Branciforte: Edvige, you’re a teacher of memoir writing. What are your roots, origins and story? Edvige Giunta: I am Italian, and American, Sicilian, Sicilian-American, European. I have multiple ...

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Four imaginative design duos in Florence

In a city long celebrated for its inherent abundance of familial artisans—from multi-generational bookbinders to dexterous father-and-son marblers—it comes as little surprise that a new epoch of fratelli creativi is ...

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Michele Moricci and the growth of graphic design

Wearing jeans and a white tee under a peach shirt splattered with green and orange spheres, Florentine fashion designer Michele Moricci looks poised and at times a little bit shy ...

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Ekaterina Tkachenko: a Russian designer embraces Florence

Ekaterina Tkachenko is an up and coming Russian designer who has fallen in love with Florence. Growing up around furs and a seamstress grandmother didn’t initially push her into the ...

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A meeting with designer Cecilia Arpa

Cecilia Arpa, an upcoming Tuscan designer, sits with her legs crossed under the table, her navy wide leg trousers pulled up slightly to reveal a white Converse All Star sneaker ...

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The award-winning artisans of InLaboDesign and Boom Bag

Once upon a time there was a young graphic designer named Alessandra Botto who needed a new and more useful case for her laptop. She couldn’t find anything suitable in ...

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Digerolamo: an interview with Clara Soto

It takes the careful collaboration of high quality design and craftsmanship to create a piece that is simply timeless. This is definitely the case for Italian leather artisans, Digerolamo, seen ...

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10 reasons to subscribe to The Florentine

Share your love of Florence this holiday season by subscribing to The Florentine magazine: the gift that keeps on giving.

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