Wine Town 2011 in Florence

01 Sep 2011

Wine Town 2011 Firenze

On 24th and 25th September 2011 in the historic center of Florence will be held Wine Town, an event dedicated to those who love the “wine of the author”. Shows and concerts enliven the tasting of quality wines in the most beautiful cloisters and interior spaces of historical buildings of Florence, only open to the public for this occasion, including: the Central Market, the Courtyard Ammannati Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Corsini Suarez, Palazzo Guicciardini, Nonfinito Palace, Palazzo Pazzi Quaratesi, Palazzo Antinori, Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, Davanzati Palace, Palace Gianfigliazzi, the Magisterium.

The Wine Town event is an invitation to drink aware, the rediscovery of the ancient values of conviviality. Born from the union of the art of fine wine as its fruit, a mixture of lifestyles, culture and territory.

The event is divided into 10 tracks, or 10 points of view to talk about wine, architecture, art, archeology, marketing, communication, innovation, children’s play. There will also cooking show, thinking the bottle design, new technologies and a treasure hunt through the streets of the historic center.

Opening hours of Wine Town:
Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 11.00 to 23.00
Sunday, September 25, 2011 from 11.00 to 21.00

The tastings will be conducted during the opening hours of the event, upon purchase of WineCard. For more information visit www.winetown.it

What better than a festival dedicated to wine to arrange a short holiday in Florence! Book now your hotel room in a hotel of the old town with Ars Hotels.

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15th August in Florence: City Events

11 Aug 2011

Firenze - estateFor those who will spend the 15th August 2011 in Florence the city will offer many opportunities for fun and relaxation, together with many cultural initiatives.

First, at the Fortezza da Basso will be the final evening of the Fortress Summer 2011, the Summer Festival in Florence dedicated to music, culture, theater, literature. The evening of 15th August will be accompanied with the alternative Latin rock Belgrave at the space “Piazza Puccini” and also wiht the screening of “August Holidays ” by Paolo Virzì at the Lorraine Quarter Courtyard.

For gourmets, however, the “Taste of Square” near the Piazzale Michelangelo is the appointment with the “Fish Festival”: a menu of simple dishes and ingredients carefully selected and based on the season. This is one of the many festivals, like the bruschetta or the porcini mushrooms, which happens to Piazzale Taste of Florence during the summer: a sort of “permante festival” of Tuscan flavors.

For lovers of art and culture, Florence is always full of surprises, even in August. At the Museo degli Argenti in Palazzo Pitti, visit the exhibition “Treasury of the Kremlin”: more than 100 exhibits from the prestigious Moscow Kremlin Museum, the richest collection of the oldest Russian museum, which includes the crown jewels and some objects related to the court of the biggest names Tsar of Russia.

Mostra Rabarama Giardino BoboliAt the  Boboli Gardens you can find the personal exhibition of Paola Epifani (aka Rabarama) - Body in Art and Performance Art – titled “ANTICOnforme”. The exhibition presents forty works in white Carrara marble and painted bronze, all large,  scattered, as well as in the Boboli Gardens, between the park of the Royal Mews, straws and Piazza Pitti.

Finally, in the heart of the Uffizi in Florence, also in August will open the exhibition “Vasari, the Uffizi Gallery and the Duke”, which presents the progressive construction of structures that Cosimo I had imagined as the site for so-called Courts and Arts.

Florence never stops to be attractive: if you plan to spend the August here, book your room at the center of the city with Ars Hotels!

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