The Fortezza
da Basso, or fortress of San Giovanni Battista, today the main Florentine
exhibition venue, has a long history, which began after the experience of the
siege of 1529.
At the time, Duke Alessandro de’ Medici
commissioned to the artists and architects Pier Francesco da Viterbo and
Antonio da...
MIDA – the Florence International Handicrafts Fair, is back in town!
The biggest handcrafts fair in Florence Since 1931, the event brings together Italian
and international craftsmanship under one roof, at the Fortezza Da Basso.
Now in its 90th edition, It’s the longest-lived fair of this kind in Italy and...
Since
the Middle Ages, "semplici", a word derived from
the Latin “medicina simplex”, meaning
medicinal herbs and tranlated as “simples”, have been grown in Florentine city
gardens.In 1454, Cosimo I de' Medici
founded a true academic garden for the students of the Faculty of Medicine."A public place
where...plants native to...
A good observer will discover that in Florence there are several astronomical instruments scattered around the city, not only great breeding ground for artists but also for scientists and scholars.
In ancient times, to know the time people used the sundial, a measurement tool based on the detection of the...
Until
August 23, Palazzo Strozzi hosts Rothko in Florence, an exhibition
dedicated to one of the masters of modern art.
The project is designed to establish a dialogue between Rothko's work and the
artistic and architectural heritage of Florence, particularly the Renaissance
spaces of Palazzo Strozzi, as well as involving...
It may happen that
looking for the address of a shop becomes confusing for those coming from
outside Florence, because in the Tuscan capital a differentiation is made
between the house numbers, written in black, and those of commercial
activities, marked with red numbers.
The origins
The civic numbering in...
Scientifically known as Acacia dealbata, the mimosa is a plant native to Australia
and Tasmania, that Europeans introduced in Europe in the early 1800s, fascinated
by its exotic beauty.The common name comes from the latin mimus (to mime), evolved in the Spanish mimar (to cuddle), because some
species are particularly sensitive...
Beyond the Campo di Marte station, in the San Salvi area, lies one of the greatest
masterpieces of the sixteenth century: the Last
Supper by Andrea del Sarto, the "painter without errors", painted
between 1511 and 1530.Andrea del Sarto was twenty-five
years old when he began working on the fresco...
In the period of Lent (Quaresima in italian), that is from Ash Wednesday until Holy Thursday, in all Florentine pastry shops we find Biscotti Quaresimali, Lenten biscuits: typical cocoa biscuits connected to the period of abstinence from animal-derived foods imposed by the Christian tradition, in respect of the days of...
If Saint Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, celebrates
"us", Saint Faustino, patron saint of unrequited love, is the time to
celebrate "me".
In recent years, February 15th has become known as "Singles' Day", a
modern and charming label, somewhat reflective of the times we live in.
Of course, love...
