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TUSCANY AND FLORENCE NEWS
Destinations
Sensory Spa Packages in Tuscany: The Thermal Resort of Chianciano Launches the New Terme Sensoriali
The new Terme Sensoriali spa resort at Chianciano Terme in Tuscany (Italy) combines innovative technology and treatments advocating naturopathy principles. (...)
Folklore
Italian Holidays: Befana Festival: On January 6th Children in Italy Await Gifts Brought by a Kind Witch
Since time immemorial, on Twelfth Night a kind witch on a broomstick fills stockings left hanging for her by Italian children, with sweets, toys and lumps of coal. (...)
Easter Cart Tradition in Florence: The Italian City of Florence Holds a Historic Easter Festival
For centuries, the city of Florence in Italy has been celebrating the Easter holiday with the traditional Scoppio del Carro festival, dating back from Medieval times. (...)
Events
Art and Homosexuality Exhibition: First Cancelled in Milan, the Controversial Event Opened in Florence
Censorship could not stop the most extensive event on the subject ever staged in Italy, with works by 150 artists from early photography to the present day. (...)
Lucca Comics & Games Convention: The Top Italian Comics Fair Attracts 85,000 Visitors Each Fall
For over forty years, the Italian city of Lucca has been playing host to Italy's leading event for comic art, illustration, gaming and multimedia. (...)
Family Travel & Kids' Interest
Free Guidebook to Florence, Italy: Florence Tourism Had Disney Design a Child-Friendly Travel Guide
Let Donald Duck & Co. guide your children on a sightseeing tour of Florence in Italy with this free child-oriented guide to the Renaissance city of art. (...)
Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio: the Original Italian Book Behind Disney's 1940 Animated Movie
Published in dozens of languages and read by millions of children and adults, the tale of the wooden puppet made famous by Disney's 1940 cartoon first appeared in 1881. (...)
Italian Holidays: Befana Festival: On January 6th Children in Italy Await Gifts Brought by a Kind Witch
Since time immemorial, on Twelfth Night a kind witch on a broomstick fills stockings left hanging for her by Italian children, with sweets, toys and lumps of coal. (...)
Tuscan Food & Wine
La Cucina Degli Affetti / Cooking With Love
Benedetta Vitali, co-founder of the highly acclaimed Cibreo restaurant and now executive chef of her own Zibibbo restaurant in Florence, shares her favourite recipes in a new cookbook. (...)
Culture
A new finale for Giacomo Puccini's unfinished opera 'Turandot'
After Franco Alfano in 1926 and Luciano Berio in 2002, the young Chinese Composer Hao Weiya was commissioned to write a new ending for Puccini's last piece of work. (...)
Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio: the Original Italian Book Behind Disney's 1940 Animated Movie
Published in dozens of languages and read by millions of children and adults, the tale of the wooden puppet made famous by Disney's 1940 cartoon first appeared in 1881. (...)
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