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Author Susan Van Allen ("50 Places in Rome, Florence and Venice Every Woman Should Go"), moderates a panel of passionate experts who will share insider's info on Italy's Big Three. Featuring Joe Wolff, author of "Cafe Life: Florence", JoAnn Locktov, editor of "Dream of Venice", and Angela K. Nickerson, author of "Michelangelo's Rome".   Sund...

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The Florentine Florin is considered to be the US Dollar of the Renaissance. A coin of a mere 3.54 grams of fine gold, it showed just the name "Florentia" and the fleur-de-lis, emblem of the city, on one side and St John the Baptist, the Patron saint of Florence, on the other side. A king's face was never shown on the Florin, and this gives us a hin...

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On October 9, at the Palazzo Vecchio in the hall of Cinquecento will be the usual WELCOME DAY, the welcome ceremony for students of American Universities present in Florence. The Welcome Day 2013 will be characterized as an authentic Tuscan welcome to the community of American students, who will be for a few months real citizens of Florence....

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by Elisabetta Russo   Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, musicista fiorentino. Recitava così il titolo della raccolta di musiche di Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco che egli stesso soleva custodire in un preziosissimo notebook – un compendio di tutte le sue composizioni e insieme un omaggio a Firenze, la patria da cui si separò prematuramente a causa delle...

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Città: FirenzePaese: STATI UNITIPeriodo di svolgimento: 22/04/2013 - 27/05/2013Partners: Florence Design WeekDescrizione: Dal 22 al 27 maggio, Firenze ospita la quarta edizione della Florence Design Week, un evento che sta acquistando ogni anno una maggiore visibilità. La Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas si occuperà di inviare 4 professio...

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  WTI Magazine #48    2014 November, 26Author : Matthew Lofstrom      Translation by:   During my experience abroad in Rome, I have been fortunate enough to have my parents come to Italy to spend some time with me. They were with me for a week at the end of October and we spent three of those days in Florence. This allowed both my parents and I...

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Due settimane di riprese, un affare milionario per Firenze. Il primo ciak di Inferno, colossal diretto da Ron Howard, è fissato per il 2 maggio a Palazzo Vecchio, dove le macchine da presa lavoreranno fino al 7 maggio. Solo di affitto il Comune incasserà una cifra molto importante, già calcolando al rialzo l'indennizzo per il mancato incasso dei bi...

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by Claudia Baroncelli   If you are planning to pop the question to your sweetheart, but don't know how to do it and (above all) where to do it, you should know that Italy has plenty of romantic places to act as the perfect setting for your proposal. Here are Swide's suggestions.   Perhaps secondo only to your wedding day and the arriv...

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In our discovery of new points of view from which to analyze the relationship between Italy and the US, today we want to talk about Sister Cities programs. There is an American institution, called "Sister Cities International", which takes care of these aspect of how the US partner up with other countries. So we are happy today to have as our gues...

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As a starting point, in a restaurant nowadays it is not sufficient to just have an important chef, a unique cuisine on offer, or a high level of quality in order to be considered "excellent", because both restaurant and wine cellar service are key elements for achieving the highest scores in the guidebooks.   For this, in a selection of the...

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