Florence has a special tourist card, which is called Firenze Card.
The Firenze Card is valid for 72 hours and provides you the admission to more than 30 museums, located in Florence. It costs € 50,00; you can purchase it at some of the museums and at the tourist information offices: piazza Stazione 4, via Cavour 1r (from Monday to Sunday) and online.
Purchasers of Firenze Card get into museums without waiting time - no queues! The card also enables you to use public transportation free of charge.Every card includes free access to museums and means of transportation to a second person if younger than 18 (EU citizens only).
More info www.firenzecard.it
Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from 3 March to 15 July 2012, sets out to illustrate the extremely fertile and multifaceted relationship that the painters of the New World established with Florence and other cities in Tuscany between the mid 19th century and the World War . After the end of the American Civil War, there was a substantial increase in the number of American artists travelling to Europe, although, of course, the 18th century Grand Tour tradition had never really died.The painters' main destinations were Florence, Venice and Rome, cities which the artists idolised in their eagerness to explore their ancient monuments and to take their own measure against the art of the past. They were also attracted by the charm and variety of the landscape, so different from the countryside back home, by the light, by the evocative and atmospheric panoramic views, and by the picturesque charm of the local people.The exhibition is divided into five sections with works by over thirty Americans artists who worked in Florence. Some, like lohn Singer Sargent, are famous, while the work of other less well-known artists is being shown in Italy for the first time. On returning home, they all became celebrated painters and authoritative masters who played a crucial role in forming the new generation of American painters and in forging the birth of a national school of painting.
Their paintings diaiogue in the sections of the exhibition with those by Florentine and Tuscan painters including Telemaco Signorini, Vittorio Corcos and Michele Gordigiani, whose work came closest to the sophisticated manner, so rich in literary allusions, that was favoured and nurtured by the most exclusive circles in that cosmopolitan colony.
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza Strozzi, 50123 Florence, Italy
Tel. +390552645155, www.palazzostrozzi.org
Dinosaurs in flesh and bone is the “giant” exhibition at the Florence Museum of Natural History. The big predators inhabit the Botanical Garden where they appear along with tree branches of ancient trees and in the halls of the Museum of Paleontology.
In the exhibition we can see animals whose appearance is the result of the most modern and accurate anatomical and ecological research combined with the unmatched skills of the greatest internationally renowned Italian artists of the field.
The largest animals, including some well-known characters of fantasies that not only children share like Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus and Gallimimus, are presented in a surrounding that resembles their original vegetation in one of the world’s oldest botanical gardens. They are represented in scale 1:1. Others, like the Glyptodone Thylacinus find their place among the skeletons of fossils in the great national paleontological collection which is also an important monument of Florence’s role in the history of science.The visit of the exhibition, an outstanding event already by itself, is accompanied with activities for children who are the biggest dinosaur lovers. Especially on Saturdays and Sundays the little ones can participate on excavation workshops, on drawing activities and model with clay.
Museum of Natural History – sections Botanical Garden and Paleontology
Da Fattori al Novecento. Opere inedite dalla collezione Roster, Del Greco, Olschki
Villa Bardini, Costa San Giorgio 2 – Firenze
Info 055 20066206 – mg.geri@bardinipeyron.it
The theme of the 75th edition of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival, which will be held in Florence from May 4th to June 10th 2012, will be "The Journey - From Central Europe to South America", in occasion of the explorer, Amerigo Vespucci's (1454 - 1512) five-hundredth anniversary.
Venerdì 4 maggio 2012, al Mandela Forum di Firenze, si terrà la prima di due uniche date toscane del nuovo spettacolo di Maurizio Crozza.
Il comico più in vista del momento, Maurizio Crozza, volto di ben 2 canali televisivi Rai3 e La7, ammonitore degli italici costumi, presenta il suo nuovo e attesissimo one man show, dove tra un monologo e una parodia, racconta il nostro Paese sempre al passo con l'attualità.
Prima le memorabili gag con i Broncoviz, eroi di Avanzi e Tunnel, poi l�applaudita militanza comica con la Gialappa�s Band e poi, ancora, la consacrazione definitiva come irresistibile fustigatore degli italici costumi. Italici costumi. Le mille vite artistiche di Maurizio Crozza possono essere riassunte anche così: dimenticando fatalmente qualcosa ma ricordando precisamente tutta la potenza comica di questo grande mattatore e tutta la sua capacità di fotografare il presente, la politica e la società.
Biglietti (posti numerati):
I sett. � 30,00 - II sett. � 25,00 � III sett. � 20,00 (d.p. esclusi)
Prevendite Circuito Regionale Box Office www.boxol.it
Fortezza da Basso, dal 18/05/2012 al 20/05/2012
La prima fiera dedicata al turismo culturale nel mondo, organizzata da TTG Italia in collaborazione con Regione Toscana e con il supporto di Toscana Promozione e Firenze Fiera
TipologiaFiera
IngressoA Pagamento
Contattiemail artandtourism@ttgitalia.com
tel +39 011 4366300
fax +39 011 4121793
Sito Internethttp://artandtourism.it/
Organizzatore
TTG ITALIA - Via A. Nota 6 - 10122 - Torino - TO - Italia /Italy
artandtourism@ttgitalia.com
tel +39 011 4366300 fax +39 011 4121793
The City of Florence joins, for the fourth consecutive year, the Night of Museums on Saturday, May 19, 2012: an event taking place with success since 2005 in Europe and that this year will see the participation of more than 3000 museums in 40 European countries.
15th International Congress of Endocrinology and the 14th European Congress of Endocrinology
Fortezza da Basso, dal 05/05/2012 al 09/05/2012
Congresso associativo a carattere internazionale
TipologiaCongresso
Numero Partecipanti5000
Contattiemail ice-ece2012@bioscientifica.com
tel +44 1454 642240
fax +44 1454 642222
Sito Internetwww.ice-ece2012.com
Organizzatore
ESE C/O BIOSCIENTIFICA LTD - 22 Apex Court, Woodlands, Bradley Stoke - BS32 4JT - Bristol - UK - United Kingdom
info@euro-endo.org - www.euro-endo.org
tel +44 1454 642247 fax +44 1454 642222
82° PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO& PITTI IMMAGINE W_WOMAN PRECOLLECTION 10
Fortezza da Basso, dal 19/06/2012 al 22/06/2012
TipologiaFiera
IngressoA Pagamento
Contattiemail info@pittimmagine.com
tel +39 055 36931
fax +39 055 3693200
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Organizzatore
PITTI IMMAGINE SRL - VIA FAENZA 111 - 50123 - FIRENZE - FI - ITALIA
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Fortezza da Basso, dal 28/06/2012 al 30/06/2012
Collezioni abbigliamento e accessori 0/18 anni, premaman, articoli per la prima infanzia, complementi di arredo
TipologiaFiera
IngressoA Pagamento
Contattiemail info@pittimmagine.com
tel +39 055 36931
fax +39 055 3693200
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Organizzatore
PITTI IMMAGINE SRL - VIA FAENZA 111 - 50123 - FIRENZE - FI - ITALIA
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tel +39 055 36931 fax +39 055 3693200
Fortezza da Basso, dal 04/07/2012 al 06/07/2012
TipologiaFiera
IngressoA Pagamento
Contattiemail info@pittimmagine.com
tel +39 055 36931
fax +39 055 3693200
Sito Internetwww.pittimmagine.com
Organizzatore
PITTI IMMAGINE SRL - VIA FAENZA 111 - 50123 - FIRENZE - FI - ITALIA
info@pittimmagine.com - www.pittimmagine.com
tel +39 055 36931 fax +39 055 3693200