Within Vintage Selection’s hall at the Fortezza da Basso, all sorts of vintage clothes and accessories can be found, from dapper to military to bo-ho, making a visit a treasure hunt for that [...]
MOVIE IN ENGLISH: BEAUTIFUL BOY starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. Cinema Odeon, Piazza Strozzi. 5 pm. MOVIE IN ENGLISH: BEING LEONARDO DA VINCI starring Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, Jacopo Rampini, [...]
Medieval games, fireworks, and a day off work — the perfect combination to cure your Monday blues. All these and more will be yours when Florence celebrates its patron saint, John the Baptist (San Giovanni), [...]
FESTIVAL DELLE ORCHESTRE GIOVANILI (F.O.G. or Florence Youth Orchestra Festival). June 23 — August 20. Free entrance. More information here. The 21st annual Florence Youth Festival will commence on Sunday, June 23 — the start [...]
Delve into the colorful, animated world of a selfless giant as he makes friends with different creatures along the way in the children’s book The Smartest Giant in Town written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated [...]
Famous Florentine painters from the Renaissance era — they’re just like us! Even Sandro Botticelli, one of the most highly respected and admired painters of the Italian Renaissance, and mastermind behind the iconic Nascita di [...]
The most important thing to know going into a screening of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die is that it’s odd. Set in the fictional town of Centerville, USA amidst an environmental disaster, Bill Murray [...]
On the morning of June 11, in the Boboli Gardens, an old masterpiece was unveiled as new: Giovanni Battista Capezzuoli’s statue of two children playing an outdoor game, Gioco della Civetta. The white marble sculpture, [...]
The Medici year in Florence will be celebrated until the end of 2019 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of when Cosimo I de’ Medici and Catherine (Caterina) de’ Medici, two pivotal figures in European history, [...]
