Laugh. Cry. Sigh. After 70 years what difference do a few months make? It’s a busy time for the Colosseum, in more ways than the obvious. Recent days have seen a stampede of ‘the sky is falling’ stories regarding some apparent settling/cracking of the enormous (Roman) concrete ‘doughnut’ on which the Colosseum is built. For [...]
Pavia, 2012 exhibition, Renoir
July 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Pavia, Scuderie del Castello Visconteo ‘Renoir La vie en peinture.’ 15th September – 16th December 2012 Featuring works from galleries around the world, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, this exhibition includes many pieces never before seen in Italy. Of note is a series of still life [...]
Summer nights in Rome, Castel Sant’Angelo 2012
July 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
‘Notti d’Estate a Castel Sant’Angelo’ Rome, until 9th September 2012 Once again one of Rome’s most well known buildings is home to a series of special events and activities during the warm nights of Summer. There are special concerts and free guided tours (you’ll still need entrance tickets, but the tours are free), and ordinarily [...]
Rome, Colosseum restoration to start end July 2012. Official announcement.
July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
*** Update, a few days later. Move along, nothing to see here – link. It would finally appear to be done, dusted, officially approved, green-lighted, about-to-start, all protests settled, hurdles cleared, arguments over … you get the idea. Yesterday the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, declared that restoration and ‘upgrading’ of the Colosseum would begin [...]
Andrea Bocelli, Teatro del Silenzio 2013 edition – mailing list
July 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
** Update – 23rd January 2013 – we are now taking pre-orders for the 2013 edition – see here. If you’d like to be informed as soon as we are able to take orders for the Andrea Bocelli concert in Tuscany, ‘Teatro del Silenzio’ 2013 edition, then please provide your email address below (in the [...]
Siena Palio 2013 – mailing list
July 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
December 22nd 2012 – we are now taking orders for the Siena Palio 2013. If you’d like to be informed as soon as we are able to take orders (or have significant news of) for the Siena Palio 2013 edition, then please provide your email address below (in the box under the ‘Email Address’ label) [...]
Some analysis of Italian museums, visitor numbers and trends
July 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Falling a long, long way short of being a deeply-researched piece, this post will briefly look at two recent studies into visitor trends as pertaining to ‘cultural tourism’ and Italian Museums. The first report – sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, MiBac (link 1 and link 2, both Italian only) looks at changing visitor patterns [...]
Florence exhibition – ‘The Thirties. The Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism’
July 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
‘The Thirties. The Arts in Italy beyond Fascism’ 22nd September 2012 to 27th January 2013 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Advance notice of an upcoming exhibition in Florence featuring, in seven sections, a wide range of works and artists that testify to this intense decade of activity, where, to quote from the official site: a very vigorous [...]
Rome exhibition – noted Popes, Castel Sant’Angelo, 2012
July 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
‘I Papi della memoria’ Rome, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo June 28th – December 8th 2012 ‘The Popes of memory’ doesn’t quite trip off the tongue. Perhaps ‘Notable Popes’ or ‘Popes we remember’? Whatever, this just-opened exhibition at Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo is a look back at a selection of memorable Popes, noted as either great [...]
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