November 4th, 1966: a date that Firenze will never forget. After days of heavy rain, the river Arno flooded. The flooded waters came with little warning to the Florentine and the impact of the deluge was catastrophic. 70,000 homes and 6,000 commercial properties were destroyed but it was the damage to the city’s art that …
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco present an exhibition highlighting the great works of the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico. Angelico, who was named the patron saint of artists in 1984, was an emblematic figure of the XV century and was well known for his piety. The new exhibition, which opens this week, offers an …
ACF Fiorentina, commonly known as Fiorentina, is one of the most successful clubs in Italian professional football. The club was founded by a merger on August 26th, 1926. The beginnings were not terribly successful, but by 1931 the Club had managed to reach the so-called Serie A. In the early 1950´s Fiorentina was consistently reaching …
Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar and a political leader. He was active in Florence, second half of the XV century, and fomented important religious and social changes: he preached against the tyrannical abuses of the Medici, denounced clerical corruption and started a crusade against the excesses of wealth and luxury. He condemned all those …
Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the largest Tracey Emin exhibition ever held in Italy. She is one of the most prominent British artists in the contemporary art world. Much of her work is autobiographical and represents her childhood trauma and the obstacles she had to overcome. Enter Palazzo Strozzi and be ready to explore …
Bernard Berenson was one of the most important and famous art historians in the Western world. He was a student at Harvard University, where he studied the works of Dante, took courses in art history, and fell in love with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Bernard Berenson married Mary Whitall Smith, and at the …
Today in Florence we remember the birth of Michelangelo, the supreme genius of the High Renaissance and one of the most influential artists that Art has ever had. It is impossible to separate Florence from one of its most beloved sons. Florence and Michelangelo are forever intertwined in the history of man’s greatest moment. Both …
Inaccessible since 2020 the Royal Apartments reopened on January 21st, 2025. The apartments are open to the public every day, from Tuesday to Sunday. Whenever in Florence don’t miss the opportunity to walk where three ruling dinastyes lived: Medici, Lorraine and Savoia. Get ready to discover marvellous rooms:
It is time to celebrate the largest and the oldest public museum in europe! Open to the public in 1775 today, La Specola Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary. La Specola, which is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, started as the personal collection of the Medici family. The museum takes …
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February 18th, 1743 Anna Maria Luisa, the last descendent of the Medici family, died. She was a forward thinking woman and she was fundamental in defining Florence as the city of art for which it is now known the world over. Among her achievements was the “Patto di familia” which established that the Lorraine, the …
The Vasari corridor will be open to the public from December 21st, 2024 after 8 years of restoration. It was November 2016 when, in a short period of time and due to security reasons, the decision to close the corridor was taken. The Vasari Corridor is an aerial passageway that connects Uffizi Gallery to Pitti …
Happy Fibonacci day! Today is time to celebrate mathematics. Fibonacci day is November, 23rd. Why? Because today’s date 11/23 (1,1,2,3,5,8,13….)is the beginning of sequence named after Leonardo Pisano, aka Fibonacci. He was a medieval Italian mathematician who wrote Liber abaci (1202; “Book of the Abacus”), the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics, which …