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Florence is looking to the future, while focusing on the problems of the present with a multi-million euro package to clean up Santa Maria Novella station.
The Città Metropolitana di Firenze has released its tourism findings for the first three months of 2019, revealing a surprising drop—albeit slight—in the number of overnight visitors to the wider ...
They call it B9. It’s Florence’s new spectacular venue, a contemporary piazza that opens the city to the world. Set in the sprawling former tobacco factory Manifattura Tabacchi, the ...
The interior walls of Florence’s Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and, for the first time, the drum of the dome, are undergoing checks to ascertain the state of their conservation to date.
From anniversaries commemorating Leonardo da Vinci, Caterina de’ Medici and Cosimo I de’ Medici to local elections, the best of basketball, Ed Sheeran and the opening of that tramline to ...
From quidditch (!) to the council’s quest to ditch pesky potholes, the opening of two new tramlines, international volleyball and top global music acts, 2018 in Florence is set to ...
Florence has outlawed street prostitution within its city limits, enforcing fines of up to 206 euro or three months’ imprisonment.
People have been complaining about “the tourists” in Florence for at least a century, but crowds and their behaviour keep getting worse, not better. This year, city administrations are taking ...
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall will be based in Florence during a week-long European trip through Italy, Austria, Albania and Romania.
International Women’s Day (Festa della Donna) is just around the corner, and per tradition, yellow mimosa flowers are brightening up florist windows and supermarket shelves. From dinners to dance shows ...
The Palazzo Vecchio has announced a plan to stop night circulation and to lower the speed limit in the Cascine park, Florence's largest green space.
At 9.09pm Italy time, on Monday, November 14, 2016, climb up high or stay close to Florence’s monuments to watch the Supermoon show, a natural spectacle that rarely ...
On November 5, 2016, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Florence Mayor Dario Nardella signed an agreement (the “Florence Pact”), which earmarks 110 million euro, in addition to the previously established 680 ...
Seventy new taxi permits have been issued by the City of Florence to improve transport around town.
This morning, sensors were placed beneath the Ponte Vecchio by the Italian Alpine River and Speleologist Group and Aquatic Emergency Team. The electronic devices monitored the stability of ...
Lungarno Acciaiuoli will be restored thanks to a 1.1 million euro investment by Lungarno Alberghi, Palazzo Feroni Finanziaria and various utility companies.
Set in the perfect Oltrarno-style location, which could just as easily be found in Berlin’s Mitte or Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you come across the new jewellery workshop Officine Nora ...
“Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are ...
Florence’s dark side, brought to you by The Medici Dynasty Show As Florence evolves from a city of the past into a city of the future, its identity is ...
Hidden Florence, brought to you by The Medici Dynasty Show 1. Bellosguardo Early birds can start their day with a view of the sunrise from Bellosguardo, a hill dominating ...
