Nouveautés & évènements
| Historic Footbal 24/06/2009 | Four teams of 27 youths each face each other during the famous “Calcio Storico”, Historic Football, the incredible and exciting Florentine 15th-century style tournament of fighting and football held against the spectacular backdrop of Piazza Santa Croce.
In past times, this Roman ball sport, which went on to become a Florentine tradition during the cities golden age as the Tuscan capital, was played by noblemen to prove their own skill and strength to the watching damsels. Today, it is now ferociously fought between young men of four Florentine quarters: San Giovanni, Santa Maria Novella, Santo Spirito and Santa Croce.
Team members wear medieval garters and pantaloons attack each other to seize the ball and put it in the net (which runs the entire width of the pitch) by whatever means available. The winners are rewarded with a calf, which was historically butchered for the occasion.
Where: Piazza Santa Croce
When: 24 Jun 2009
Opening Hours: 5pm
| | Pitti Immagine in Florence 16/06/2009 | This is one of the most important and famous events in Florence. Pitti Immagine is a bi-annual appointment and an exhibition of Florentine fashion by leading Italian designers.
From 16 to 19 June Pitti Immagine Uomo: male fashion trends for next season.
From 25 to 27 June Pitti Immagine Bimbo: the only one international event for children fashion.
From 1st to 3rd July Pitti Immagine Filati: fashion from its starting point, its fabrics.
Japanese designer Jun Takahashi, the mind behind the Undercover brand, will present the world premiere of his menswear Collection S/S 2010 in an exceptional location in Florence with a performance starring his unmistakable style. This is the first time that Undercover will be shown in Italy.
Where: Fortezza da Basso – Florence
Contacts: +39 055 36931
E-mail: uomo@pittimmagine.com | | Motogp: Grand Prix of Italy 31/05/2009 | The Grand Prix of Italy is one of the best appointments for motorbike lovers. The 31st of May, as every year, the Grand Prix of Italy is going to come back to Mugello and the greatest champions of motorcycles will be present.
Every year the Mugello circuit, just a few km from Florence, is animated by motors and people ready to support their idols, from Valentino Rossi to Casey Stoner, and their favourite motorcycles.
Mugello (Florence) -31May 2009 | | Florentine Genius 15/05/2009 | More than 100 events in Florence and its vicinity dedicated to genial artists such as Dante, Leonardo and Boccaccio and created to celebrate the creativity, uniqueness and originality that has been consistent in Tuscany’s history. This year edition the events calendar is full of exiting exhibitions, performances, conventions, fashion shows, concerts, guided readings and gastronomic events divided in 12 categories, including art, cinema, music, science, painting, sport and much more.
The exhibition “Clemente VII e Firenze. Fede, politica e arte dal 1513 al 1543”, dedicated to the famous Pope Medici, will open on the 24th of May in Palazzo Medici Riccardi. On the same day the opera of Georg Friedrich Haendel “Rodrigo”, with costumes of the renowned fashion designer Enrico Coveri, will be performed at the Pergola Theatre, while on the 16th of May, 600 actors will recite the best parts of the Divina Commedia in the most enchanting corners of Florence.
Where: Florence
When: 15-24 May 2009 | | Carlo Mollino. With Naked Eye. 13/05/2009 | An extraordinary and complete retrospective of the photographic work of Carlo Mollino, one of the most acclaimed architects and designers of the XXth century. His unique pieces: whether furniture or photographic art, were conceived as one-off pieces.
140 photographs from 1936 to the Polaroids of 1973, some drawings and historical objects will be displayed in the Museo Alinari in Florence to guide the visitors through the enchanting “photographic world” of Mollino, inspired by his passion for architecture and interiors, ski and the feminine figure.
Mollino was very interested in photography as a form of art: when he taught in Turin, he founded the first photographic laboratory at the Faculty of Architecture.
The most interesting part of his work is constituted by fascinating women’s portraits, represented in a varied world of faces and expressions.
Where: Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia, Florence
When: 19 February 2009 – 14 June 2009
Opening Hours: 10 am- 7 pm (except on Wednesday) | | Fabbrica Europa 05/05/2009 | The renovated open spaces of the ex Florentine train station Stazione Leopolda will be the setting for one of the most important art events in Tuscany, the Fabbrica Europa Festival. Every year a different topic is chosen to show up how contemporary art can mingle in a productive and positive intercultural dialogue. Renowned international theatre companies, DJs, musicians and artists hold in these days numerous events, gigs and open workshops till late at night.
This years edition will be based on the cultural link between America, Europe and Mediterranean, explored with the creativity and uniqueness that has become the dinstictive quality of Fabbrica Europa.
Where: Stazione Leopolda, Firenze
When: 5 - 23 May 2009 | | Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 29/04/2009 | One of the oldest music festivals in Italy, and one of the most famous, the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” was founded in 1933 in Florence and features two months of opera, concerts, ballet and exhibitions.
The preliminary programme in 2009 suggests a feast of opera and theatre, with performances ranging from Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung, conducted by Zubin Mehta, to Shakespearean masterpieces such as Macbeth, interpreted by Compagnia Lavia-Anagni.
Where: Florence
Opening Hours: Most evening performances at 8.30pm | | International Artisans Fair 25/04/2009 | The 73rd edition of the international artisans fair begins in Florence in April. The arts fair is to handcrafts what Florence is to the Renaissance period. It's therefore not one to miss and attracts the attention of visitors throughout Italy. It's also a meeting point for the local craftspeople, interior designers, furniture makers, architects, and art galleries to exchange ideas and engage in creative dialogue.
The exhibition is divided into six themed areas: Territories, interior design, food halls, places in the world, high fashion and jewellery, futures – where exhibitors can show off the leading edge designs of the future.
Florence, Fortezza da Basso: 25 April – 3 May, 2009 | | The Italian Tango Festival in Florence 23/04/2009 | Lovers of dance, music and especially tango will be delighted by the 7th edition of “Firenze Tango Festival”, an event which will feature dancers and teachers from the international stage.
The Hyperion orchestra of 7 elements and the six dance couples of the Festival, together with tango, milonga, chacarera and canyengue lessons are going to animate this manifestation.
The main tango night begins on Friday 24 April with the Tango-Show “Colores de Tango” on the stage of the Saschall-Theater. After the show will be opened the big tango ball. The theater with its 400 m dance floor is transformed into a typical Milonga where you can dance until the early hours of the morning to live music.
Saschall 23-26 April, 2009 | | Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the birth of the Boroque portrait 03/04/2009 | At Bargello National Museum a tribute will be paid to an important artist, Gian Lorenzo Bardini; innovative in the field of sculpture during the Renaissance period. The exhibition is divided into two sections, each displayed in their own unique room:
1) Bernini the Portraitist: the beginning and rise
2) The “Talking Portraits” (1630-1640)
The portrait sculpture was conceived in the sixteenth century mainly as a state-portrait with a strong official connection. Thanks to Bernini, it progresses from stern and stiffly formal images to figures which seem to breathe and even talk to the spectator. They are the so-called “talking portraits”.
The Florence show therefore sheds light on the most significant phase of the artist’s self-portrait period, the one of his full mastery, represented by Costanza Bonarelli, the Portraits of Urban VIII and of Scipione Borghese, and of other personages of the papal court.
Florence, Bargello National Museum : 3 April – 12 July 2009 | | Memories of Antiquity in Twentieth -Century art 14/03/2009 | More than 130 works of art on display. This exhibition draws ever closer and compares ancient art and twentieth-century art, focusing on paintings and sculptures with origins in the periods of Etruscans, to Medieval, and through through to the Renaissance. Featuring artists from Picasso to Dalì, Modigliani, Carrà, De Chirico, and Franco Angeli.
The exhibition aims to visually represent and communicate the innovative force, revolutionary impact and great expressiveness of twentieth-century art, and is juxtaposed by historical Neoclassicism.
Already present in Picasso’s works from the early 20th century, the return to the origins became a creative drive also for a generation of Italian artists. After the disruptive experiences at the turn of the century, Carrà, Severini, Soffici, De Chirico, Morandi, and Modigliani indeed chose this road to reconnect with its roots and its traditions.
Florence, The Pitti Palace- Museo degli Artisti: 14 march – 12 july 2009
| | Donatello's David restoration 02/12/2008 | Florence has several works of art known in all over the world and, among these, Donatello's bronze statue of David must feature prominently. The restored version of the work will be on public display from 29th of November 2008 at the Bargello National Museum, home to the restoration and display of the statue since 1887.
It is thought that the statue of David may have been commissioned by Cosimo de Medici, and the piece represents a slim man, his unripe nudity alludes certainly to the symbolic courage and humility.
Where: Bargello National Museum, Florence
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 1st, 3rd e 5th Monday of each month 8.15 - 13.50
Closed 2nd, 4th Monday of each month, May 1st
| | Galileo. Images of the universe from Antiquity to the telescope 02/12/2008 | March 13, 2009- August 30, 2009 – Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi is going to host an important exhibition that will celebrate and commemorate Galileo Galilei and his extraordinary life.
This exhibition will describe the Galileo's scientific journey : the vision of the Cosmos from ancient time until the Scientific Revolution through maps of the heavens, drawings, scientific instruments, paintings, sculptures and precious illuminated manuscripts from the world’s most prestigious museums and libraries. Everything is valid to understand the historical time line that marked his life and his studies.
An important aim of the exhibition is to focus on aspects of astral sciences that have had a direct impact on the hopes and fears of man. In a special section devoted to the invention of the telescope, Galileo’s sole surviving telescope will be on display.
Where: Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza Strozzi, 1 - Florence
Opening hours: Daily 9 a.m - 8 p.m - Thursday 9 a.m - 11 p.m
Tickets: Full € 10,00 - Reduced € 8,50 € 8,00 € 7,50
Information: +39 055 2645155
| | A PIAZZA FOR ALL SEASONS - SANTA CROCE 08/07/2006 | Throughout the year quite a number of recreational activities are hosted in this beautiful piazza, to name a few:
June saw the setting up of the playing field for the Medieval Soccer competition, which incidentally was cancelled due to the animosity existing between the teams!
Leading up to Christmas, the German Christmas Fair, there are many stalls where one can buy
typical gifts and enjoy wurstel and sauerkraut, mulled wine or a beer in the carousel pub.
On another occasion, during the winter Santa Croce becomes an open-air ice-skating rink.
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