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WEBNews. Find out the latest news from Florence, Italy, with a particular focus on all the cultural ongoings in the Renaissance capital. We take you through art, food and wine, latest openings, changes to the city’s contemporary landscape, and updates on Covid-19 as well as everything else you need to know.
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
WEBThe Italian Risorgimento: A timeline. The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification. 1815. At the Congress of Vienna, the powers that had defeated Napoleon-Austria, Russia, Prussia and Great ...
Dante and Beatrice: an eternal love story | The Florentine
WEBNov 2, 2021 · Dante and Beatrice in Florence: a new musical film. On Sunday, November 28, Hershey Felder returns to our screens as Dante in a world premiere musical film that focuses on the eternal love story between the Supreme Poet and Beatrice. The story begins in the Chiesa di Dante before taking us around the places that Dante frequented in …
L’Italienne: Catherine de’ Medici - The Florentine
WEBApr 12, 2019 · On January 5, 1589, when Catherine, the great Medici-born queen and regent of France, died of pleurisy at 69 years of age in Blois, just eight months before her son, Henry III, was assassinated, she was no longer the slim young maiden who had left her Florentine home to marry into Valois royalty.Although she had reached a considerable age for her epoch, Catherine’s love of rich foods to the ...
The Medici balls - The Florentine
WEBIn 1496, there were so many Medici coats of arms on the buildings of Florence that Savonarola, the famous critic and reformist, claimed that even the places of importance usually reserved for the crucifix in churches had been usurped by the Medici’s balls. The Medici family has always been associated with balls. Six of them to be exact.
Medici Chapels in Florence | The Florentine
WEBJan 2, 2019 · A visit to the Medici Chapels begins in the crypt, one of four sections inside the museum. Here, you can find the tombs of the Medici grand dukes and their families, from Cosimo I to his wife Eleanor of Toledo, Giancarlo de’ Medici to Vittoria della Rovere to the last heir of the Medici dynasty, the revered Anna Maria Luisa, to whom Florence owes the protection of its many treasures.
145 years of good grub: Florence’s central market - The Florentine
WEBWed 04 Dec 2019 1:52 PM. The cast iron and glass structure opened with an impressive horticultural show in May 1874 and has remained the core of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood for 145 years. Now, the ground floor of Florence’s central market is changing things up a gear. Florence’s Central Market, on the ground floor / ph. Leo Cardini.
“My beautiful San Giovanni”: Florence Baptistery | The Florentine
WEBFeb 19, 2017 · 751. That’s how many years have passed since Dante Alighieri was baptised in Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni on March 26, 1266. In his ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante described the building as “my beautiful San Giovanni,” yet he was not the only famous Florentine to be baptised here.Navigator Amerigo Vespucci, historian and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and Grand Duke Cosimo I de ...
How to get the Covid Green Pass in Italy | The Florentine
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Italy’s Green Pass system will come into effect on August 6, requiring the EU Digital Covid Certificate to be shown to access certain non-essential services, such as eating indoors and on entry to events, pools, theatres, museums and cinemas.It will not be required on public transport or flights within Italy. Food and drinks may still be consumed outdoors or a coffee sipped at the bar ...
4½ minutes: the story behind Fotoautomatica | The Florentine
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · 4½ minutes: the story behind Fotoautomatica. Phoebe Hunt talks to Matteo Sani about what’s so magical about vintage photo booths and why he decided to rescue them as FOTOAUTOMATICA. The vintage photo booths dotted around Florence are a thing of wonder, producing black-and-white film photos with a decades-old analogue camera.