Sat. 14: CHILDREN’S CARNIVAL. Piazza Ognissanti. 2 – 6 pm. Free admission. Piazza Ognissanti will be transformed into a large open-air stage for the 21st edition of the Children’s Carnival. Children and parents alike, wearing costumes or masks, are invited to spend a carefree afternoon enjoying entertainment and games. Sweets like cotton candy, peanut brittle, and brigidini (aniseed-flavored wafers), will be available for purchase. An electric train will take passengers on a scenic [...]
Sat. 7 – Sun. 8: TASTE. Fortezza da Basso, viale Filippo Strozzi 1. Open to the public 2:30 – 6:30 pm, buyers from 9:30 – 2:30 pm. Admission for the general public: €25; free to ages 12 and under. Following its success in 2025, Pitti Immagine’s ‘Taste’ food fair returns for its 19th edition. The theme for 2026, titled ‘True Food,’ reflects the fair’s commitment to showcasing authentic Italian products while promoting a [...]
Take advantage over the next several days to visit Florence’s city run museums, where ticket prices will increase starting Sunday, February 1, 2026. On the first Sunday of the month, however, these museums are free to residents of the greater Florence metropolitan area. The change in admission will be as follows: Palazzo Vecchio from €12.50 to €18, Torre d’Arnolfo from €12.50 to €20, Brancacci Chapel from €10 to €15 Romano Foundation from €5 [...]
The 11th edition of Florence’s Black History Month (BHMF), which develops around the theme “Common Time,” celebrates the cultural heritage of African-descending communities worldwide through a program of events ranging from talks and art shows to a historical commemoration to a film screening in English during the entire month of February. The program kicks off on Monday, February 2 with the showing of BLKNWS, Terms & Conditions by Kahlil Joseph at the Cinema Astra, [...]
The Orchestra della Toscana has a tradition of commissioning new works to contemporary musicians, which have their world premiere within a program featuring pieces by renowned composers of the past. This creative presentation characterizes the January 28 concert at Teatro Verdi (9 pm). The evening will open with the debut of Grande Danse by Paolo Catenaccio, a composition in six movements that is a metaphor for the birth of the planet Earth, “from an [...]
Florence will offer a series of themed events on International Holocaust Memorial Day which, thanks to a 2005 United Nations decree, takes place annually on January 27. The date chosen was the one in 1944 when army troops from the Ukraine arrived to liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp. The victims were European Jews, political dissidents, gays, gypsies and others, all systematically killed by the Nazis. After all the city’s flags will be [...]
Florence churches/places of worship participate with their program to foster interfaith dialogue during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity through January 25. A Catholic priest from the Florence Cathedral, the Rev. Timothy Verdon, will be one of the guests who will inaugurate the Ecumenical Chapel at the basilica of San Lorenzo on Thursday, January 22 at at 6:30 pm. The Sacra Famiglia (Holy Family) Church at via Gioberti 33 will host an [...]
The funeral of Rocco Commisso, the American president of the ACF Fiorentina’s soccer team (known locally in Florence as Viola), will be live streamed from New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday, January 21 at 4 pm Italian time. The YouTube link is: https://www.youtube.com/live/ewqjzYQkckg?si=eHBxsASZuGyUd-Pz and the link to the St. Patrick’s is: saintpatrickscathedral.org/live After a brief illness, Rocco Commisso died in the United States on January 16, 2026. He purchased ACF Fiorentina on [...]
Reflecting mysticism with a touch of magic, every year Florence celebrates Easter with a pyrotechnic spectacle during which a dove flies out of the Duomo down a wire and ignites fireworks attached to a huge, wood and gilded cart, called the Brindellone. The cart is normally hauled from its storage space at Via il Prato by garlanded white oxen through crowds. On Sunday, January 18, the public can see the Brindellone up close [...]
January 13 – 16, 2026: PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO. Fortezza da Basso. Open 9 – 6 pm, last day 9 am – 4 pm only to buyers and the press. The 109th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo will bring over 700 men’s designer brands, 44% of which are international, to present the Fall/Winter 2026/27 collections across five curated sections and designated exhibition spaces. This edition’s theme is ‘Motion,’ a concept that celebrates movement and [...]
