City beach and pools
Florence is not immune to the extreme heat of the cities in summer, but it offers you many opportunities to beat it! Even this year, the famous beach on the Arno river will be organised: a...
Category: curiosità Firenze
Irish Dance Night at Grand Hotel Adriatico
The Grand Hotel Adriatico after its experience with theatre, Saturday 31st January opens its doors to Irish dance fans: a whole day dedicated to traditional music and dances stage that will continue with dancing night opened to everybody:...
The Mattioli’s timeless “Pinocchio” in Florence
Saturday January 17th at 4.00 pm at Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence (Galileo’s Room) the exhibition will open “Il Pinocchio di Leo Mattioli: una modernità senza tempo” (Leo Mattioli’s Pinocchio: a timeless modernity). The wind orchestra “Fiesole Harmonie”,...
The strange history of Orsanmichele
The story of Orsanmichele begins in 1240, with the Florentine Commune ordering the destruction of a small, 500-year-old church called San Michele in Orto (St. Michael in the Garden), known more fondly as...
Giambologna’s Apennine Colossus restored
Inside the garden of t he Villa di Pratolino there is the statue of “Appennino” (1579-1580), a colossal sculpture by Giambologna, which originally seemed to emerge from the vaulted rockwork niche that once surrounded him. Multiple grottoes with...
Gost in Florence, the Halloween tour
If you are going to be in Florence during the weekend of Halloween, you should know that All Saints Day on November 1st is a national holiday in Italy. Halloween itself has only very recently been adopted here...
1865/2015; 150th anniversary of Florence Capital
Il 2015 will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Florence Capital, when the unification of Italy also owes special tribute to the city of Florence, which, from 1865 to 1871, served as the...
Hidden treasures: the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre or Rucellai chapel
The Rucellai chapel is a hidden masterpiece created in 1467 as a scale copy of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem; the temple of Leon Battista Alberti is known to scholars of art from...
The Medici coats of arms
If you walk in Florence you will notice a coat of arms with six balls. This is the coat of arms of Medici family that has always been associated with balls. Their family emblem, five red...
Florentia: the lily and Marzocco symbols of the city
Florentia was the name of the ancient Florence in roman time; the emblem of Florence is a red lily, the representation of which derives from the Florentine iris, a white or pale...
