From March teh 6th till the 14th 2010, Fortezza da Basso

From classic to modern, high-tech, ecological and the spot dedicated to past times: in Salone del Mobile (Forniture Fair) there are not only furniture, but also everything you need for renew your home, such as the big choice of parquet floors, frames, furniture for the garden, alternative heating system, security systems. There is a large area dedicated to the “good and health sleeping”. It is a big showcase for the biggest national brands.
Among news there are cozy and comfortable kitchens with high-tech performances.

3 days of sampling, discovering, buying, events and a focus on lifestyles in collaboration with Pitti Immagine.

Taste. Travelling with the diversities of taste is the fair of tastes and ideas produced by Pitti Immagine at the Stazione Leopolda, held from 13 to 15 March 2010. It is an unique tour dedicated to excellence and biodiversities in food in our global era.
There will be over 170 exhibitors selected from the best in Italy specializing in exquisite products: from black truffle velouté, to chocolates made with Parmigiano Reggiano, Prunilli tomato puree flavored with Spanish clover honey, from dry egg pasta  hand-drawn through bronze dies to hams baked in Medieval ovens, to aged buffalo milk cheese to jams enhanced with balsamic vinegar to taggiasche olive marmalade.
Taste has evolved into a taste salon  where the finest Italian and international operators in the field of high quality foods get together, as well as an attraction for the large – over 8,000 visitors.

Sunday, April the 4th.

Every Easter Sunday the city of Florence celebrates at 11:00 am the Explosion of the carriage (Scoppio del Carro), a traditional Easter event, in Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square).

This famous Florentine ceremony dates back to the First Crusade, launched to save the Holy Sepulcher from the unfaithful hands.

The wagon (carriage), pulled by a couple of oxes, arrives on Piazza del Duomo with a parade of people in traditional costumes, trumpet players and flag wavers. At a certain moment the Archbishop lights on the cord of a rocket, hidden beyond a white dove, which flows along an steel cable and crosses the cathedral. Then it arrives on the square and strikes with the wagon, and it will explode.

If the dove's route will encounter some obstacles and if it will not be perfect, the harvest will be scarce, according to popular legend.