We’ve been offering guided tours of the Vasari Corridor for a few years now, but yesterday we added a few extra times as well as a totally new tour (including a tour of the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace with the Palatine Gallery). So now you may opt to visit just the Vasari Corridor, [...]
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Florence, Basilica of Santa Croce – Online Booking Now Available
April 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We’re now offering advance ticket booking for the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Perhaps watching ‘Room With A View‘ was part of your pre-trip excitement, in which case you’ll have seen Santa Croce already – the statue is that of Dante, located outside and in front of the church – he had been banished [...]
Florence, Easter Monday, special openings
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Short notice, but you may be pleased to know that pretty much all Florence galleries and museums will be open for Pasquetta – Easter Monday: Uffizi Gallery 8.15 – 18.50 Accademia Gallery (David) 8.15 – 18.50 Boboli Gardens (with the Silver Museum, Costume Gallery, Porcelain Museum and the Bardini Gardens) 8.15 – 18.30 Medici Chapels [...]
Americans in Florence – Sargent and the American Impressionists
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Americani a Firenze. Sargent e gli impressionisti del Nuovo Mondo’ Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 3rd March – 15th July 2012 ‘Americans in Florence – Sargent and the American Impressionists’ is another exhibition for Florence on the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci – the other one being the Native American art show at Palazzo [...]
Florence, Pitti Palace 2012 – Native American art exhibition
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘La Nuova Frontiera. Storia e cultura dei nativi d’America dalle collezioni del Gilcrease Museum’ Palazzo Pitti – Andito degli Angiolini – Galleria del Costume 3rd July – 9th December 2012 ‘The New Frontier. The history and culture of the native American from the Gilcrease Museum, USA’ is an exhibition on the 500th anniversary of the [...]
Florence, Pitti Galleries 2012, Japanese art and culture
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Giappone. Terra di Incanti’ Palazzo Pitti: Museo degli Argenti & Galleria Palatina & Galleria d’arte moderna 3rd April – 1st July 2012 ‘Japan, Land of Enchantment’ is the ‘group’ title of this series of three distinct exhibitions spread across three of the Pitti Palace galleries, all celebrating the art, history and culture of Japan and [...]
Florence, Accademia Gallery exhibition 2012
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Arte torna arte’ Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence 8th May – 4th November 2012 The title of this exhibition is a tricky one to translate … ‘Art becomes/returns to/back to art’ but the concept is pretty much that of a cycle, a common root system, a constant flux of creation across all parts of a culture. This [...]
Florence, Uffizi Gallery exhibition 2012, Gothic art
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘Bagliori dorati, il gotico internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440′ Florence, Uffizi Gallery 19th June – 4th November 2012 The second major exhibition at the Uffizi in 2012, this display of Gothic art from the Florence of 1375 to 1440 can be translated as ‘Golden (choose between:) glimmers/glows/dazzles/glints’, and highlights an incredible period in Florence’s artistic past, [...]
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