The “Florence of the Children” is coming!
The initiative “Florence of the Children” is returning this year as well, from May 4th to the 6th: a calendar rich with events especially designed for the little ones, but not only! The theme of this edition is “ingenuity,” an invitation to always keep your brain turned on and exercise curiosity, reasoning, analysis, creative thoughts and discovery. Amongst the many workshops that will keep the children busy are those organized by the Officina Creativa by Artex: seven artisanal workshops meant for the
European Days of the Artistic Crafts
On April 6, 7, 8 the “European Days of the Artistic Crafts” returns, an event organized simultaneously in various European countries to spread the knowledge of the enormous heritage of the artistic and artisanal crafts. For three days, the artisans’ bottegas and the workshops in all of Europe will open their doors to visitors to show their production techniques and their great mastery, peculiar of all the artisans’ professions, which is a material and human heritage, something unique and that needs
FLORENCE ON TV on the program EASY DRIVER
Saturday, January 13th at 11:40 on Rai Uno Italian Television, the program Easy Driver will devote its fourth episode to the city of Florence, to its historic center, to its wonderful surroundings and to the Florentine handicraft. The visit starts at Piazza della Signoria in Florence in search of the secret of a mystery graffiti by Michelangelo on the access ramp to Palazzo Vecchio. A few steps place Michelangelo apart from a contemporary artist, Urs Fischer, the author of a gigantic sculpture that has divided the Florentines between traditionalists and modernists.
The artistic crafts between the Tiber and the Arno
From September 15th to the 26th, more than 150 works of masterful artisans from Arezzo.