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The Florentine
News from Florence, Italy, focusing on art and culture, food and wine, and more.
Vat Stats The Vatican became a city-state on February 11, 1929. It has 900 citizens and 3000 employees, including 100 Swiss Guards. One third of the Vatican is covered in gardens. Facilities include: a helipad, train station, hotel, radio station and post office. Over 60 popes are buried
Some of the best wine making names in Italy will be auctioning off their wine at a benefit event next May 20th to support Florence’s most important annual musical festival, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Names like Frescobaldi, Antinori, Castello Banfi, Biondi Santi, Arnoldo Caprai, Umani Ronchi, Ca del Bosco,
Both residents and tourists alike have long complained that the stadium set up every summer in Piazza Santa Croce for the Historic Football (Calcio Storico) matches is truly an eyesore in front of one of the most beautiful churches of the city. And now city councillors have fi nally thought
Florentine authorities raided a home near Arezzo last week in a successful fi nale to the three month long operation organised to recover 20 pieces of valuable art that had been stolen over the past eight years. The pieces that were stolen primarily from churches and private homes range
Sunday, May 8th is a day to celebrate Italian towns whose population amounts to less than 5,000 inhabitants. Organisers hope that this initiative will achieve a new recognition of these less central locations that are often overlooked despite their wealth of traditions, resources, art, and history. The ancient
The inhabitants of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood recently decided they had had enough. Tensions created between residents and some market vendors who were littering streets, and, even worse, with raucous night time visitors, finally came to a head a few weeks ago when inhabitants took to the streets in protest
