IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: the masterpiece of Rossini in Florence
Il Barbiere di Siviglia with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini , will be the first Opera performance in the Nuovo Teatro dell’Opera in the Cascine Park of Florence.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini , will be the first Opera performance in the Nuovo Teatro dell’Opera in the Cascine Park of Florence.
These days we often talk about the marble quarries, white as the snow on the Apuan Alps, in the western corner of Tuscany called Versilia overlooking the coast. Here is Colonnata is a small...
Images from the historical procession of St John the Baptist in Florence
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...
Once upon a time, and it is appropriate to say …. Here everything is wood, everything speaks of the tradition and history of Florence, but not limited to …. Pinocchio is the lion’s share...
To coincide with the Strozzi exhibition “Pontormo e Rosso Fiorentino”, inside Palazzo Vecchio’s Traces of Florence offers visitors a new take on the famous panels painted by Pontormo for the processional wagon of St John the...
Piumaccio d’Oro is a shop in the district of San Frediano, specialized in restoring and polisching antique furniture and it was opened in 1941 by Emilio Malenotti. He soon acquired the nikname “Piumaccio d’Oro”, the “rubber”...
If you enter in the beautiful courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio built by Michelozzo and decorated in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari for the wedding of Francesco de ‘ Medici and Johanna of Austria, you...
Do not miss “Cantine Aperte” this weekend, May 24/25, with wine tastings and visits at many wine cellars just outside of Florence and beyond. This is one of those rare tourist events in Tuscany when...
The colors of the evening on the facade of Santa Maria Novella. A visit to the museum; here you can admire the rich colors of marble headstones with emblazoned tombs, sundials ….. this is...