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WEBNews features: Find out the latest news from Florence, Italy, with a particular focus on all the cultural ongoings in the Renaissance capital. We take you through art, food and wine, latest openings, changes to the city’s contemporary landscape, and updates on Covid-19 as well as everything else you need to know.
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
WEBMar 10, 2011 · The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline. The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification. 1815. At the Congress of Vienna, the powers that had defeated Napoleon-Austria, Russia, Prussia and Great ...
The Medici balls - The Florentine
WEBMar 29, 2012 · In 1496, there were so many Medici coats of arms on the buildings of Florence that Savonarola, the famous critic and reformist, claimed that even the places of importance usually reserved for the crucifix in churches had been usurped by the Medici’s balls. The Medici family has always been associated with balls. Six of them to be exact.
Michelangelo’s tomb: five fun facts you probably didn’t know
WEBOct 12, 2017 · Michelangelo like a saint. Bust of Michelangelo on tomb. Chronicles often report that after saints die, their bodies remain in good condition and they smell good. This phenomenon could last for years after a saint’s death. People saw this as concrete proof of the unique, divine nature of a saint.
Acqua al 2: 40 years of culinary gambles and conviviality
WEBSep 10, 2018 · Blueberry steak—perhaps the signature menu item at famed local restaurant Acqua al 2—has raised more than a few Florentine eyebrows over the years. But at the time of the Medici, co-founder Stefano Innocenti insists, sweet fruits matched with meats, roasts and game like salt with pepper. Innocenti hardly needs to lecture his diners on the details of Renaissance-era diets.
4½ minutes: the story behind Fotoautomatica | The Florentine
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · 4½ minutes: the story behind Fotoautomatica. Phoebe Hunt talks to Matteo Sani about what’s so magical about vintage photo booths and why he decided to rescue them as FOTOAUTOMATICA. The vintage photo booths dotted around Florence are a thing of wonder, producing black-and-white film photos with a decades-old analogue camera.
145 years of good grub: Florence’s central market - The Florentine
WEBWed 04 Dec 2019 1:52 PM. The cast iron and glass structure opened with an impressive horticultural show in May 1874 and has remained the core of the San Lorenzo neighbourhood for 145 years. Now, the ground floor of Florence’s central market is changing things up a gear. Florence’s Central Market, on the ground floor / ph. Leo Cardini.
Le Murate - The Florentine
WEBJan 17, 2013 · and overcrowded, Le Murate was the site of a major inmate revolt on February. 24, 1974, when a group of detainees managed to climb onto the prison roof. Reacting too quickly, a guard fired his machine gun, killing one prisoner and. wounding four others. Instead of quelling the insurrection, it ignited even.
Franca Viola - The Florentine
WEBApr 30, 2008 · On Boxing Day 1965, Franca Viola, a beautiful 17-year-old from Alcamo, a small Sicilian town, was abducted by Filippo Melodia, a local small-time criminal, whose advances Franca had repeatedly rebuffed.With the help of 12 of his friends, Melodia dragged her into a car; he drove her to a farmhouse on the outskirts of town where he raped her and kept her secluded for more than a week.
San Lorenzo Church in Florence - The Florentine
WEBSep 19, 2018 · San Lorenzo is broken up into three distinct areas for visitors to enjoy. The Medici Chapels, round the back of the church, are a separate site bureaucratically speaking.The basilica complex comprises the other two elements: the church itself, and its adjacent cloister which gives access to the famed Laurentian Library, whose staircase and reading room were designed by Michelangelo.