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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Florence’s Uffizi Galleries have confirmed they were the target of a cyber-attack earlier this year. However, the museum is pushing back hard against reports that its world-famous art collection was ever at risk.
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Born with every gift Florence could bestow, Cosimo I’s brilliant eldest daughter, Maria de’ Medici, was dead at seventeen. Her story casts a long shadow over one of history’s most powerful families.
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Born 28 March 1472 in Savignano di Prato, Tuscany, Fra Bartolommeo, a Dominican friar and High Renaissance master, whose figures were said to move “with a seraphic grace that must have struck the young Raphael with the force of revelation.”
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The city council of Florence has approved a project to upgrade the visitor access route to the Brancacci Chapel, one of the most important landmarks of Renaissance art.
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