DANZA IN FIERA 2012

From February, the 23rd to the 26th, Fortezza da Basso, Florence

Also this year it comes back “Danza in Fiera”, the fair dedicated to dance’s world, at its 7th edition.
Four days of spectacles, stages, exhibitions, competitions, casting, auditions, meetings, workshop, videos and lessons of every style and kind of dance.
Moreover, it will be presents famous dance’s world guests and not only…

www.danzainfiera.it

MOBILE’S FAIR 2012

From March the 10th to the 18th, Fortezza da Basso

The Mobile’s Fair of Florence is between the most complete and qualified expositions of furnishings at national level: it offers styles, forms and colors to satisfy every request from a public always numerous and exigent.
The classic, modern, ethnic, traditional, the high-tech, the ecological, whatever the furniture’s market offers is present to the Mobile’s Fair. Event not to miss for those who are seeking ideas and solutions to set up the house or renew its home.

FIRENZE EUROPEAN CITY OF SPORTS 2012

Mandela Forum – 2012 Sporting events:

- February 11/22 – Athletic Indoor Races
- February the 11st – Climbing’s Regional Race
- February 25/26 - World Roller Skating Gran Prix World Figure Skating
- March 23/24 – Italian Championship Artistic Gymnastic Series A
- March the 31st – Opening Ceremony Piaggeliadi
- May 18/20 – World League Volley
- November/December – Basket’s Championship Indoor Races of Brandini-Claag
- December – Judo’s Trophy Busi And Ginestrini

www.mandelaforum.it

The Artimino’s museum, the Carmignano’s Archaeological Park fulcrum, preserves one of the most riches collections on the etruscan civilization of Tuscany. From the princely tombs, of Carmignano’s Park area, the museum preserves the extraordinaries etruscans masterpieces, from the censers in bucchero to the precious jewelries in ivory.

www.parcoarcheologicocarmignano.it

STAY IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF ARTIMINO
Stay in hotel – visit museum – discover etruscan Tombs

* 2 nights in a Comfort double room with breakfast for 2 people
* 2 free tickets for the museum
Total of package: € 138,00
 

(valid from January to March 2012 – subject to availability)

Contacts: +39 055 8715872 - + 39 338 6408750 (tim) - info@hotelvillasanmichele.com

PITTI TASTE N. 6

From 10 till 12 March, Stazione Leopolda

Also the year will be more of 100 the expositors presents to the fair entirely dedicated to the culture of food. A route compound by 5 steps: dibated related to the trends of today to cooking, observation of the new kitchen’s tools, learning more about food and finally taste the delicacies. An occasion to update ourselves on the new tendences and to admire at work the cooks internationally renowned.

FIRENZE CARD

* 50 € – 72 hours – 33 museums – bus + tram included
* Free entrance to museums, villas and historical gardens in Florence

* No queues and reservations

* Free Bus and tram with no limits

* Information kit of the museum members

THE BEAUTIFUL ITALY – ART AND IDENTITY OF THE CAPITOLES CITIES

Palazzo Pitti

The exhibition, which had its first place in Turin to Venaria Reale, has reached Florence to Palazzo Pitti: it gives image to the many Italy which the history called to become Italy.

http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/mostre/mostra.asp?id=239

THE ROOMS OF TREASURES

From October 3rd 2011

The wonders of collectors in Florence museums

Palazzo Medici Riccardi – The expositive route emphasizes the principals features of the majors collections which were formed to Florence between Height hundred and Nine Hundred, starting by the seventeenth century of canonical Angelo Maria Bandini.

Museo Stefano Bardini – You can admire the Salone dei Dipinti, with the thirteenth century Crocifisso di Bernardo Daddi (1340) just restored. With the San Michele Arcangelo, the project’s image, we remember the Donatello and Della Robbia’s marbles which belonged to the antiquary Bardini.

Museo Horne – The picture and the look. Figure’s portraits and studies to Constable.
A magnificent exposition of 28 drawings by Italian, Deutschland, Flemish and English school, from the Five Hundred at the end of Eight Hundred, collected by H.P. Horne. In this interesting excursus we meet some of the most great masters. 

  www.stanzedeitesori.it

THE SPINNER: A NEW SYMBOL FOR PRATO

Until February the 29th 2012, Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

A wonderful marble sculpture of Lorenzo Bartolini, never exposed to the public: we can admire it to Palazzo Pretorio. The sculpture has a great value, represents a tribute to the work and to vocation textile of the city, it’s a symbol of art and beauty and it’s the first most significant exposition in the extraordinary building of Piazza del Comune, closed to the public from 1998. Next to the spinner, others 2 sculptures, among the most important of Bartolini: the plasters of Trust in God and the plasters of the Oceanid Nymph.
 

JACOPO BASSANO. THE MASTER, THE CHILDREN, THE STORE

Until February the 5th 2012, Galleria degli Alberti – Palazzo Alberti, Prato

The exhibition presents a series of works of Jacopo and the children Francesco, Leandro and Gerolamo da Ponte, better known as the hometown’s name, Bassano, which they helped to spread the fame in the world: the family became famous in the middle of five hundred for producing one of the bigger machines of the story for the artistic production.