Museo Horne: a precious home in Florence
In a old palace in the centre of Florence, Museo Horne is a small and precious place unfortunately still unknowmn to mass tourism, is named efter the english collector Herbert Horne, who left his...
Category: Florence museums
The expected 1900’s Museum finally opens. 300 works on display at the old convent of Leopoldine in Santa Maria Novella
Florence is the “cradle of the Renaissance,” but finally opens the new Museum of the 1900s. The critic Charles Ragghianti had the idea for this museum, an insight that is now a reality. The location for this...
The Certosa of Galluzzo, one of the best place to visit outside Florence
An itinerary outside Florence much beautiful to make if it is a beautiful day of sun is to the abbey of the Certosa of Galluzzo at five km from the city. The Certosa del Galluzzo in...
The Giglio’s city and the appointment with “his” flower
The Iris Garden of Piazzale Michelangelo was created in 1954 to give hospitality to a yearly International Competition for the best variety of Iris ‘The Florence Prize’ on the initiative of Mrs. Flamina Specht...
Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino, the great exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi
Florence is again the scene of a major exhibition; Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting from 8 March to 20 July 2014 a exhibition entitled Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino. Diverging Paths of Mannerism, devoted to the...
Santa Maria Novella and the Great Cloister, the extraordinary opening of Saturday, March 8
Near Hotel Rivoli and Best Western Grand Hotel Adriatico there is the Church of Santa Maria Novella might not be at the top of your list of places to visit in Florence but we highly recommend...
The Vasari corridor opens to the public
It’s one of Florence’s most fascinating places in the world and open to visitors the famous Corridoio Vasariano (Vasari Corridor). If you’ve never visited it,you’ll have an opportunity now. Visits to the Corridor, which leads from...
Show the Russian Avant-garde
At Palazzo Strozzi in Florence’s historic center, from 27 September 2013 to 19 January 2014 “The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the Far East”, the first international exhibition to recognize the fundamental importance of...
Mostra Patek Philippe in Palazzo Vecchio – 21 e 22 giugno
Per Firenze un’altra occasione di mondanità e unicità. Il Museo di Palazzo Vecchio aprirà le sue porte il 21 e 22 giugno per ospitare la collezione 2013 di Patek Philippe, il marchio ginevrino che...
Art gallery in Florence: “Art and alchemy” at Uffizi Gallery
Florence will host “Never Seen” again, a unique exhibition organized by Uffizi Gallery during Christmas (but it will be open until 7th February 2013) which shows less-known artworks coming from warehouses. This year the exhibition is called “Art and Alchemy. Uffizi Foundry: from laboratory to room of wonders” and wants to represent, through various artworks, the ancient passion for alchemy.
