Florence’s flagship gallery, the Uffizi, has imposed an immediate halt on ticket sales, citing the impact of high temperatures on air conditioning systems. Existing bookings remain valid.
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On 11 June 1289, two armies met on a Tuscan plain and fought a battle whose consequences would shape the Italian Renaissance. The horrors of the Battle of Campaldino would find their way into one of the greatest poems ever written.
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Municipal police have seized three vehicles and issued fines totalling €980 in a fresh enforcement operation targeting unlicensed tourist transport services operating in and around the UNESCO-listed city centre.
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Il Sole 24 Ore’s annual generational quality of life index reveals a country of deep regional inequalities, declining fertility, rising antidepressant use, and a generation of young people poorly served by both the labour market and the education system.
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A night vigil in Piazza della Signoria, a commemorative procession, and a conference on unresolved judicial questions will mark the anniversary of the 1993 Via dei Georgofili bombing on 26-27 May. The Cosa Nostra attack that killed five people in the heart of the city.
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The Tuscan capital, Florence, is the only Italian city in the global top 20 in a Time Out survey. It is recognised for a cultural offering that extends well beyond its Renaissance monuments.
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A new pilot monitoring system will track environmental conditions and visitor flows inside the Brancacci Chapel, home to masterworks by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi, as part of a European heritage preservation project.
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Six months after clearing rickshaws and caddies from its UNESCO streets, Florence begins issuing permits for a new, guided shuttle system. It is designed to bring order to the historic centre’s tourist transport chaos.
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A tourist has been charged with defacing a historic monument after allegedly climbing the iconic Neptune Fountain in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria to touch the statue’s genitals. It was, she said, a pre-wedding prank dared by friends.
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8 April 1492 — Lorenzo the Magnificent, the man who made Florence the centre of the Renaissance world, took his last breath at the villa of Careggi, aged just 43.
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