At
the moment of his death, English entrepreneur and collector, Frederick Stibbert
(1838-1906) left to the municipality of Florence his villa containg a spectacular
collection of more than 50,000 objects: armors, weapons, porcelains, furniture,
jewelry, paintings, sculptures and much more. This property included also a
beautiful park with sculptures, little...
Another
major monographic exhibition is underway at Palazzo Strozzi until 3 September 2023, and this time it brings us
in contact with over thirty works by Chinese artist, Yan Pei-Ming: Yan Pei-Ming. Painting Histories.Born
and raised in Shanghai, he emigrated to France at the age of 20, enrolling at
the...
Florentine zuccotto is a
semifreddo liqueur dessert invented in the mid-sixteenth century by Bernardo Buontalenti, the same
Buontalenti to whom we also owe the invention gelato. It
is also called Caterina de' Medici’s
Helmet, since it seems that originally, to make this dessert, the helmets
worn by the infantry at...
The
Medici tapestries from the cycle “The return of Joseph, the prince of dreams”
are back in the Salone dei Duecento, exhibited in rotation in five exhibition
cycles. The twenty tapestries in the series are displayed, four at a time,
according to their original location in the hall of Palazzo...
Have you ever heard a Florentine say: “San Giovanni non vuole inganni" (Saint John doesn't allow deceit)? This saying is often used in situations where someone has tried to trick somebody else and the other person found out, or they don't believe the lie told. Where does this saying come from?...
While taking a stroll at
the Cascine Park, a very peculiar
structure might have caught your eye. We are talking about the pyramid that can be found along the tree-lined
avenu, looking rather out of place in the Tuscan capital.What on earth is a pyramid doing in Florence? Well,
it...
In addition to being a city of art, Florence is also a city
of fashion, as evidenced by the presence of numerous museums dedicated to
fashion and costume, such as the Costume Gallery at Palazzo Pitti, the Roberto
Capucci Foundation Museum at Villa Bardini, the Ferragamo and the Gucci Museum,...
Florence is beautiful and you should dedicate to its museums and attractions as much of your time as possible, but the rest of Tuscany has also a lot to offer. You can find so many wonderful little cities scattered among our hills, so if you’ve been staying here for a...
Steve
McCurry returns in town
with another exceptional exhibition, entitled Children, set up in the
very place in Florence that has been dealing with childhood for over 600 years:
the Istituto degli Innocenti in
Piazza Santissima Annunziata, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1419, a
masterful example of harmonic and rational...
The Arno river has always been a faithful friend to the Florentines,
allowing the proliferation of numerous activities along its banks, exploiting
every resource it made available. In particular, a city with an intense
building activity like Florence, needed a great quantity of building material,
and it is precisely to...
