A 75 year old Gennai Yanagisawa from Japan will take flight in the town Vinci birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the old genius original idea.more...

The work on the creation of the New Uffizi Gallery can be seen on the internet. By clicking on the website...more...

Enter to win a luxury trip for two to the picture-perfect hill of Tuscany. Now through January 31st 2008 you could win an all-expenses-paid, first class trip for two to the most photogenic towns in the world: the medieval hill towns of Tuscany, Italy.more...

Last month the taxi drivers and hotel managers in Florence reached an agreement to stop the wild grow of different prices.more...

The world's first photography exhibition for the blind and the partially sighted people.more...

A major event celebrating the art of the blacksmith is held every other year in Stia, during which there is the individual and team world forging championship.more...

Prato is known from wool weaving, which has played an important role in the financial and social development of the entire Tuscany region since the Middle Ages.more...

Ferragosto, Assumption Day, 15th August is the most important summer holiday in Italy, a time that all Italians who can get out of the cities and head for either the hills, the islands or the coast.more...

Leonardo Da Vinci - genius, artist, engineer and infamous keeper of secrets. As movie fans world wide follow the cinematographic hubbub of the Da Vinci Code, another Leonardo mystery crops up in Florence.more...

Lights on Chinart Generation - Transition from past to future. A selection of works between twelve Chinese artists of the contemporary art will be held in Palazzo Capponi all'Annunziata in Florence.more...

The Da Vinci Code opens in Florence cinemas; it promises to be a talking point for weeks to come, not least in the city where Leonardo once lived and worked.more...

Human Game, a project of Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, Stazione Leopolda, Florence. It is a project involving reflections on sports and their central role in contemporary society.more...

From the Decline of the Medici to the Empire - the approximately 180 works of art selected for the exhibition embracing painting, sculpture, the goldsmith’s craft, jewellery, porcelain...more...

The first exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo Monaco, leading protagonist of late gothic painting in Italy, one well known and respected by specialists, but still awaiting proper consecration among the vast public of today.more...

Sausages Abound, one person goes around offering everybody tasty sausages which must be grasped by the mouth without the aid of one's hands.more...