Galileo Galilei and the Palace of the “Cartelloni” in Florence
In Florence, each stone has its history and each palace has a Florentine memory to transmit. On the site of the house of the family that commissioned Leonardo da Vinci...
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Leonardo da Vinci and the Code Leicester à Florence
One of the most famous manuscripts written by the Florentine Leonardo da Vinci, who has already been defined as the Genio Universale, has returned to Florence for a temporary exhibition...
The sustainable lightness of the Marina Abramović
Provocative and audacious, free and restless, contesting and contested. These are just some of the adjectives that could define the complex, composite and articulated personality of Marina Abramović. At Palazzo Strozzi the...
The hidden detail of the Porcellino Loggia
Among the various characteristics of us Florentines, one of the most important is that the rules must be respected. Based on this purpose, since the Middle Ages, every transgression was severely...
Michelangelo and the grave in front of him
In Florence the church of Santa Croce rightly has the name of Pantheon of the Italians. Built for the Franciscan order to suffer from the second half of the eighteenth...
The Florentine welcome by Davizzi
Since the Middle Ages, in Florence, the great noble families of the city devised different ways to highlight their prestigious presence in society. But of all, the Davizzi family adopted...
Florence and the dawn of a nation
From 16 March Florence is hosting an the exhibition Dawn of a Nation. From Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano. Through a suggestive and conflicting run, the eighty exposed works of art...
Saints and devils
The streets and Florence's places are populated with several formidable animals and with undefinable monstrous faces. These hide stories which go back to Florence Médiévale and to the Renaissance. For...
FOR THE MOST CURIOUS
Sometimes, also in the most known cities, some details can escape our scrupulous attention. The temple of the Florentine Christianity, The Baptistery, introduces for example a small curiosity in its...
The navel of the city of Florence
Florence's places are characterized by the presence of numerous columns. All these columns have a historical importance but it is one of it that has a great importance of the others....