On a whim, I accepted an invitation posted to the members of De Gustibus, a local enogastronomical society, for a “ski weekend” in the Dolomite mountains near Bressanone/ Brixen, in a small town called St. …

The 2010 Festival dei Fiori (March 12-15) promises to be a beautiful and royal event. Held at the Venaria Reale near Torino, Italy and Europe’s best flower designers go head to head in competition. You …

I am at the major tourism show BIT in Milan and have picked up a brochure I think will be of interest to a lot of people who love shopping in Italy. The area in …

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.  The exhibition explores new …

Opening this Saturday Feb 20th 2010, “Sguardi Quotidiani” - Daily life, or daily looking…
Deaphoto is a local photography association that I met thanks to Barcamp at Le Murate. They specialize in photographic exploration of the …

An issue I often face, that I also find people asking on forums is: “What should I bring people from Florence“? Sometimes I’m just going one or two regions away in Italy, so I need …

A Question of Style: From the 14th of January at the Museum of the Roberto Capucci Foundation at Villa Bardini, an exhibit of 23 dresses by the Italian designer. The exhibition explores the relationship between …

Lately I’ve noticed a trend that I like very much: the bookshop/library, contemporary design, cafe/restaurant. I mean really, this combines everything I love best! This week I had the fortune of finding two examples of …

The following conference cycle offered by the Italian Dante Society in Florence is free to attend and may be of interest to Italian-speaking readers:
Con Dante, Per Dante
Conferenze e letture
Il ciclo di conferenze si terrà alle …

I don’t normally write reactionary pieces, but this bit of news has me frothing at the mouth. This Prof. Vito Franco from the pathology department in Palermo has taken to diagnosing illnesses in famous Renaissance …

I have been tagged in the “My 3 best kept travel secrets game” that Katie from Tripbase started. Not only am I thrilled to have been chosen to contribute secrets, I’m happy that this has …

When: Friday 29/01/2010 to 31/01/2010
Where: Galleria Dei Medici - next to Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, via Cavour
Who: Fashion students from Florence’s high school “Istituto Tornabuoni – Cellini”
Students from a local high school that has a fashion program …