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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.
“My beautiful San Giovanni”: Florence Baptistery | The Florentine
WEBFeb 19, 2017 · 751. That’s how many years have passed since Dante Alighieri was baptised in Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni on March 26, 1266. In his ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante described the building as “my beautiful San Giovanni,” yet he was not the only famous Florentine to be baptised here.Navigator Amerigo Vespucci, historian and diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and Grand Duke Cosimo I de ...
Medici Chapels in Florence | The Florentine
WEBJan 2, 2019 · A visit to the Medici Chapels begins in the crypt, one of four sections inside the museum. Here, you can find the tombs of the Medici grand dukes and their families, from Cosimo I to his wife Eleanor of Toledo, Giancarlo de’ Medici to Vittoria della Rovere to the last heir of the Medici dynasty, the revered Anna Maria Luisa, to whom Florence ...
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.
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
WEBThe 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 ...
New Sacristy restoration completed at the Medici Chapels
WEBJun 9, 2021 · An eight-year restoration campaign has been completed in the New Sacristy of the Medici Chapels. Colourimetric survey on the Aurora statue of the Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino funerary monument. Photo courtesy of CNR. The tombs and wall coverings have undergone a conservative restoration by an all-female team led …
The statue of Cosimo Ridolfi | The Florentine
WEBMay 8, 2014 · Placed in the piazza in 1898, the sculpture is the work of Raffaello Romanelli, one of a still-existing dynasty of Florentine sculptors whose work includes the bust of Benvenuto Cellini on the Ponte Vecchio. The inscription on pink marble at the base of statue tells us we are looking at the agronomist and politician Cosimo Ridolfi, who was ...
Fabio Picchi: iconic food entrepreneur and proud Florentine
WEBSun 27 Feb 2022 5:05 PM. The Sant’Ambrogio neighbourhood of Florence has lost its culinary soul with the death of Fabio Picchi, chef and owner of Cibrèo, aged 67. Food entrepreneur Fabio Picchi has died aged 67. Born in 1954, the food entrepreneur opened his restaurant Cibrèo around the corner from the Sant’Ambrogio market on September 8 ...
Vin Santo: the holiest of wine | The Florentine
WEBDec 1, 2016 · Vin Santo can be made from white grapes, usually Malvasia and Trebbiano, and red grapes, the ubiquitous Sangiovese. Occhio di Pernice,” meaning “Eye of the Partridge”, is the rather poetic name bestowed upon the red version of Vin Santo, alluding to the wine’s brilliant colour. The grapes are picked in September and are taken to a well ...
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.
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