Articles tagged with: Firenze
Notte Bianca Fiorentina 2011: huge success (photos)
100,000 Florentines and tourists alike flooded the streets of Florence’s historical center last night for the Notte Bianca “Insonnia Creativa”. The creative (and apparently low-cost) solution of interventions in the city’s piazze, on the bridges, late openings of museums and private institutions spread crowds out at every corner of the city and made everyone a …
Wine Town Firenze – design FAIL!
I can only say: SO. BAD.
This has got to be the worst poster design fail ever. We received this at the office via email and I heard a gasp from a colleague so I had to look too… Are we to believe that seeing Florence through “Wine Goggles” (instead of “beer goggles) is… a good …
FFF Florence Fast Forward magazine
ISSUE #2 OF FFF -FIRENZE FAST FORWARD- IS WELL DONE… Following the success of the first issue, released last summer, FFF keeps feeding new cultural visions and alternative scenarios for Florence. Just like the juicy steak that stands out on its cover, FFF is well done, and may be found in bookstores and in newstands …
Libraries in Florence editable map (Biblioteche di Firenze)
At a conference on the use of internet by libraries, archives and museums that I attended the other day (live blog here), Elena Farinelli brought up an interesting fact: if you search “Biblioteca Firenze” on google, only the BNCF comes up on the map. This is because Florentine public institutions, and also the private libraries …
Traveling Strange: A Collector of Eccentric Attractions Comes to Florence
Guest post by Robert of Neon Poisoning, who is looking for weird things to see in Florence.
Saturday night at Le Murate
This Saturday Jan 16 2010 is a very special PREVIEW night at Le Murate. If you’re in or near Florence, plan to swing by and check out this new space. Well, not so new space… let me explain.
Le Murate was, back in the Quattrocento, a nunnery for nuns under clausura – thus “murate”, something like …
Oblate Library: open till midnight, has bar, wifi, and special exhibit!
The Biblioteca delle Oblate has it ALL this December! This recently restored public space was already a great place to hang out and study, meet friends or colleagues, and eat lunch or snack. Now, this December, it’s even better. WHY?
1) The Oblate for the month of December is experimenting with being open till Midnight. Yup, …
Invito conferenza sul turismo 30 Nov 2009
This invitation is to a conference in Italian, at which I will be speaking. It’s for the Tuscany/USA womens’ professional networking association and will be of interest to those operating in the tourism sector or wishing to network in Florence.
Santa Maria Novella Area in Florence
This is a guest post about the area around Santa Maria Novella train station as convenient home base location in Florence, with an itinerary.
Florence, Italy – most people who have been there long to return. I, therefore, am like most people in that regard.
Florence film festival!
Florence: October 29 to December 17 2009
Florence is host to “50 days of international cinema”, with Festivals dedicated to a range of topics and nations including France, Finland, India, contemporary art and documentary film.
This is an opportunity to get out and do something different this fall, and to see cinematic offerings that you are unlikely …
Academic Conferences in Florence, Fall 2009
Fellow scholars in Florence. How often have you gone to the library and seen a poster for a conference that took place LAST WEEK that you would have liked to attend? How often is your inbox filled with last minute invitations from institutes offering seminars that, had you known in advance, you might have attended? …
The experience of viewing Michelangelo’s David
Charlene Thompson lives in New Brunswick, Canada. She loves Florence and writes this guest post about her experience.
DAVID. When I was a child, we would sing in church this little chorus. “Only a boy named David”. The words went something like:
“Only a boy named David, only a little sling. Only a boy named David, but …
ArtTrav is a blog about expat life, art, and travel in Italy and Europe. I am Alexandra Korey, a Florence-based art historian turned blogger.
My goal is to help travelers and residents like you experience countries through culture and local living. If it takes geeky, long articles to do that, so be it! 
