If you want to photograph Dante in Piazza Santa Croce, you are going to have to wait two months while the Carrara marble gets a good scrubbing (starting today). The 34,000 euro cleaning is financed …

Florence’s most notorious scarlet woman left an elegant mark on the city that loved to hate her.
Arttrav is pleased to host this innovative and well-researched article by US-based writer Joanne O’Sullivan.
From her portrait on walls …

The exhibit Angry Young Men: Picasso, Mirò, Dalì, the Birth of Modernity is on now through July at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and my full review of it is available in the latest issue of …

If you participated in International Slow Art Day in Florence that I hosted last year, you already know that you’ll want to sign up for this year’s edition. And now that I’m going to tell …

Today was the perfect weather for a good urban hike – a good free activity, a way to get some exercise, and very pleasant too. Florence has the advantage of being surrounded by beautiful green …

Until March 25 2011 at Slow Design (a store at Pitti 13r), go check out the really fun creations in the Easy Tech collection by Eva Parigi and Matteo Zetti of ZPSTUDIO. Easy Tech are …

The big window at via Maggio 43r – the antiquarian street – is covered in brown paper, awaiting the unveiling and official opening party of “OTTO, luogo d’arte” that will take place this Wednesday March …

I don’t like the word stunning. The literal meaning of the verb to stun has been has been entirely diminished by its overapplication to everything from a nice dress to the Grand Canyon. Yet I …

I recently interviewed Clet Abraham, Florence’s most popular street artist, for The Florentine. You can read the article “Clet: The man behind the stick figure”, but here I just wanted to give you a little …

Guest blogger Lauren Piccolo, who is working towards a masters in Museum Studies, returns to Florence as a more mature student and slips on her Italian-style boots to discover how the locals shop at one …

The Polo Museale of Florence offers weekend family visits to some of its state museums with themes designed for children 8-12 years old, with our without their parents. Two of these upcoming tours at the …

If you can’t properly see this picture, look closely. It’s white.

Stefano Amantini’s “White: Paesaggi invernali delle Dolomiti” are a technical challenge (it’s not easy to get the right exposure in the snow) and an interesting …