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Piazza della Signoria Piazza della Signora, Florence, 50122 |
This is the Piazza where Michelangelo's 'David' used to stand - there is a replica in its place now (with many people still getting their picture taken with it). There are many restaurants, shops and ice-cream parlous in... more
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Umbria Jazz Festival City Center, Various venues, Perugia, 06123 |
In OrvietoThe primary focus of the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival in Orvieto—now in its 15th year—is the country’s solid jazz tradition, arguably the best example of jazz having come of age as a global mus... more
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Puccini Festival Piazzale Belvedere, Torre del Lago, 55048 |
. Our wine visits will show the best now coming from the Lucchesi Hills, with tastings and lunches at several estates in the region. Ourfirst lunchtime will be at the superb estate of Tenuta di Capezzana, in Carmignano i... more
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Fondazione Romano Piazza Santo Spirito 29, Florence, 50125 |
The sculptures donated to the city of Florence by the collector and antique dealer Salvatore Romano in 1946 are arranged in this vast room. It is a small but well chosen collection of works that begins with Pre-Romanesqu... more
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Cenacolo del Ghirlandaio Borgo Ognissanti 42, Florence, 50123 |
From the cloister adjoining the church of Ognissanti you can go into the former refectory of the convent, which contains in the far wall a frescoed Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494). This fresco is admirabl... more
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Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia Piazza Santa Maria Novella 14a, at the Leopoldine, Florence, 50123 |
The journey begins in 1839, the year of the earliest daguerrotypes, and finishes with the digital imagery of our own day. A fascinating journey that traverses the era of the pioneers, the revelation of the mechanically r... more
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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Piazza San Lorenzo 9, Firenze, 50123 |
This strangely shaped anteroom has had scholars scratching their heads for centuries. In a space more than two stories high, why did Michelangelo limit his use of columns and pilasters to the upper two-thirds of the wall... more
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Corridoio Vasariano - Vasari Corridor Piazzale degli Uffizi, Firenze, 50122 |
The tour began in the Uffizi proper, with a survey of the highlights of the collection. I saw galleries about four years ago, when I toured the museum without benefit of guide. What I thought was familiar, however, becam... more
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Campanile di Giotto Piazza Duomo, Florence, 50122 |
In 1334, Giotto started the cathedral bell tower (clad in the same three colors of marble gracing the Duomo) but completed only the first two levels before his death in 1337. He was out of his league with the engineering... more
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Palazzo Strozzi Piazza Strozzi, Firenze, 50123 |
Over one hundred works recount the extraordinary love affair of Egisto Paolo Fabbri and Charles Alexander Loeser, two young and wealthy American collectors with the art of Paul Cézanne. In the early 1900s the pair gather... more
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