As with any port, Porto di Mare-Eskimo is synonymous with exchange, correspondence, and coming and going. This year the club has an important novelty: courses of typical Italian dance Tarantella, which will be taking place on Friday night. Porto di Mare’s focus on live music and cultural exchange is one that the man who started …
Benheart, one of the emerging stylists in Florence, is opening a renewed shop on Via Della Vigna XX, the street that in the 60’s made Florence the capital of Italian fashion, on March 18. Benheart, whose fashion targets young people, had opened last year another shop on Via Cimatori, near Piazza della Signoria, in the …
As with any port, Porto di Mare-Eskimo is synonymous with exchange, correspondence, and coming and going. This year the club has an important novelty: courses of the typical Italian dance, the tarantella, will take place on Friday nights. Porto di Mare’s focus on live music and cultural exchange is one that the man who started …
The Gucci Museum portrays the brand’s history through a variety of products ranging from travel and homeware to fashion and art. The museum, which opened in 2011 to celebrate Gucci’s 90th birthday, is 1,715 square meters in size and spans three oors of the the Palazzo della Mercanzia near Piazza della Signoria. The location was …
Director of the Uffizi Eike Schmidt announced last November that the museum will undergo a revolution next year as an entire floor, the second, will be dedicated to four Renaissance masters. The second floor of the museum, which was established in the late 16th century, will now display Michelangelo, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Raphael. Michelangelo and …
The rooms 9 and 15 of the Uffizi Gallery, devoted to the painting of the Early Renaissance, have reopened last October after being renovated as part of the Nuovi Uffizi project. The rooms, part of an area that once housed the Medici theatre designed by Bernardo Buontalenti, host masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Hugo van der Goes, …
‘Pozzo Divino’ is a witty play on words: literally meaning ‘divine well’, it also translates as ‘wine well’ when read as ‘Pozzo di Vino’. The ancient well is now the cellar that hosts Pozzo Divino’s wine tours. Dating back to 1312, the well was built to supply water through a vast system of underground tunnels …
The Gallery of Modern Art at the Pitti Palace is presenting the exhibition Real Time and the Time of Reality until March 5. The exhibit, which aims to appreciate the clocks’ quality from a scientific and an art historical point of view, allows visitors to explore the shapes taken by time throughout the dynasties of …
A family of Florentine craftsmen has discovered previously unknown theorems hidden in Leonardo’s mechanical designs, shed- ding light on the full scope of his genius. Carlo Niccolai and his son Gabriele have spent decades constructing and working the models of Leonardo’s inventions through close study of his famous codices. In collaboration with a team of …
Creativity never ends, especially at the fall edition of the Florence Creativity Festival that is taking place at the Fortezza da Basso next month from Thursday, Oct.29 to Sunday, Nov. 1. The fair, now in its fifth year, includes events, courses and expositors presenting new ideas, techniques and materials, and is a not-to-miss event …