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Cinema Florence: discover auteur films with the festival “50 Days of International Cinema”

Cinema Florence: discover auteur films with the festival “50 Days of International Cinema”

After the amazing success of the past edition, with more than 50.000 viewers, “50 giorni di Cinema Internazionale”, ambitious project composed by 9 cinematographic festivals which bring a rich scheduling of quality movies, returns to Florence from 25th October to 14th December 2012. The festival will take place at Odeon Firenze with full-length films, short films, documentaries, docufictions, videos, previews, debates and meetings with the authors.

Florence art: the Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings from the Palatine Gallery’s repositories

Florence art: the Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings from the Palatine Gallery’s repositories

Sala delle Nicchie in the Palatine Gallery hosts the exhibition “The Myth, the Sacred, the Portrait: paintings of the Palatine Gallery’s repositories”. Until 22th December 2012 you’ll have the chance to visit this short anthology, designed to enable public to approach an inexhaustible and always surprising artistic heritage, the result of the lengthy collecting of the Medici and their connection with the city.

Museum in Florence: New Frontier, the exhibit dedicated to the native inhabitants of America

Museum in Florence: New Frontier, the exhibit dedicated to the native inhabitants of America

To celebrate the fifth centennial of the death of Amerigo Vespucci, famous discoverer of American continent, Florence hosts New Frontier, the exhibit dedicated to history and culture of native inhabitants of America. From 3rd July to 9th December 2012 Pitti Palace will host some of the most precious pieces from the Gilcrease Museum of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the most important for the richness of the North-American continent’s manufactures.