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During summer Tuscany is filled with various events and feasts, but one above all emerges for its competitive spirit and fervor: The Palio of Siena.
The Palio of Siena is in fact much more than a traditional festival, organized for tourism, the prize is - and those who took part in it knows - the life of the people of Siena. Read here to discover something more about it! http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-palio-of-siena-between-past-and-present.html
Until September 6 Palazzo Ducale in Venice hosts an exhibition dedicated to Henri Rousseau and entitled "Archaic Candour".
Also known as the Douanier, Rousseau was a central personality of the figurative arts between the late XIX century and the period of the avant garde, famous for dreamlike atmospheres, forests and enchanting landscapes. read more here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-archaic-candour-of-henri-rousseau-in-an-exhibition-in-venice.html
From July 15 to 19 in the delightful village of Certaldo, in the center of the Chianti region, there's Mercantia, an extraordinary street theatre festival that, every night turns the medieval town in a fairy tales land.
Every street and every possible space is used by the actors as a stage - streets, balconies, hidden gardens and secret cellars. Mimes, dancers, acrobats and musicians mingle with the crowd in ancient and original costumes.
It's time to plan your holiday in Tuscany! http://www.florence-tickets.com/mercantia-certaldo%3A-street-theatre-festival.html
After a recent restoration the great Lucio Fontana's Spatial Concept (1952) is again visible to the public in the Wunderkammer space at the Gallery of Modern Art in Turin.
With the great yellow disk of Spatial Concept, Lucio Fontana has revolutionized the way we think about sculpture. Read more about it here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-spatial-concepts-by-lucio-fontana-in-turin.html
If you want to visit a different Tuscany, we recommend to book your next holidays in Volterra, among Etruscan ruins, medieval architecture, Renaissance paintings and a very original territory. Volterra is a magical town where historical tradition joins a beautiful and special nature. Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/volterra%3A-mysterious-tuscany.html
Until October 11, the Coliseum in Rome hosts a major exhibition dedicated to the worship of the Earth, from prehistory to the imperial age. "Terrantica. Faces, myths and images of the Earth in the ancient world", forms part of the issues addressed by Expo 2015, as a reflection on the power of Mother Earth, between human and divine, as the mother of all living things, in its particular generative and nourishing value. Read more here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/terrantica.-faces%2C-myths-and-images-of-the-earth-in-the-ancient-world-on-display-in-rome.html
The countdown has started for Milano Expo 2015, the Universal Exhibition hosted in Milan from May 1 to October 31.
It will be the biggest event ever organized about food and nutrition, with more than 140 nations and international organizations involved, and over 20 million visitors expected.
Read here to know something more about this great event: http://www.florence-tickets.com/expo-milano-2015%3A-the-countdown-begins.html
Until October 31, Milan hosts the exhibition "The mind of Leonardo. Leonardo's drawings from the Codex Atlanticus", an event that focuses on the personality of Leonardo, the richness of the themes he touched, the variety of his fields of interest and study and his particular art during the Italian Renaissance. Take a look here for more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-mind-of-leonardo.-leonardo%27s-drawings-from-the-codex-atlanticus-in-milan.html
The Florentine Medici family counts among its ranks bankers, politicians and even popes. Known as the most important Florentine family, they used their great power and their immense wealth to rule Florence, collect an immense artistic patrimony and build majestic villas in the entire territory of Tuscany...
So... let's discover them here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/medici-villas-in-tuscany.html
Love is everywhere in the new exhibition at the Cloister of Bramante in Rome until July 26. It could not be otherwise since the protagonist is Marc Chagall, the Russian painter of Jewish origin... Continue reading here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/chagall.-love-and-life-in-rome.html
From March 22 to May 31, the Nature Trains bring visitors back in time with the rhythms of a bygone era when travel meant also linger, enjoy the scenery, experiencing a vaguely "surreal" sensation in the carriages of a completely original steam train that will cross the most beautiful landscapes in the province of Siena.
Don't miss this experience! Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/back-in-time-in-siena-on-the-nature-train.html
The influences exercised by the East on the painting of Henri Matisse are on display until June 21 at the Quirinal Stables in Rome with "Matisse Arabesque", an exhibition that brings together over a hundred works by the French artist from the major museums in the world.
Eastern influences and experiences become visual inspirations and precious designs in bright colors. Continue reading here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/matisse-and-east-suggestions-on-display-in-rome.html
One of the most famous Italian wines, Brunello di Montalcino, grows in one of the most beautiful areas of Tuscany, the Val d'Orcia, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004.
Discover more about this extraordinary territory and its precious wine. Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/discovering-brunello-and-its-territory.html
Van Gogh's paintings are indoubtely fascinating. But, in the multimedia exhibition held in Florence until April 12, they become a truely multi-sensory experience.
Van Gogh Alive - The Experience is an exhibition created in the deconsecrated church of Santo Stefano al Ponte, and integrated in a spectacular way in the particular architecture of the church. Not to be missed... Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/van-gogh%27s-masterpieces-in-a-multimedia-exhibition-in-florence.html
Naples celebrates until May 4, the Emperor Augustus, who gave a deep impression to the fortunes of Campania, Italy and the Mediterranean, with the exhibition "Augustus in Campania. From Octavian to Divine Augustus. 14-2014 a.C.".
Take a look here for more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/14-2014-d.c.-%3A-the-bimillenary-from-the-death-of-augustus-in-campania.html
It has officially begun the most famous (and spectacular), the most irreverent and popular Carnival in Tuscany: the Carnival of Viareggio.
Read here to discover more about it and... don't miss it! http://www.florence-tickets.com/it%27s-carnival-time-in-viareggio%21.html
Until March 15 the Museo Correr in Venice offers an amazing journey that traces the developments of Venetian art from the 15th to the 19th century with over 130 extraordinary drawings.
The endless possibilities of light are explored through a select group of preparatory drawings, quick sketches, studies and models but also finished compositions, works that offer a poetic made of lights, shadows and chiaro-scuro, shapes and movements, feelings and visions. Read here and find more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-poetry-of-light-on-display-in-venice.html
Most tourists visit Rome in summer but, actually, altough it is always an extraordinary city, in winter it has a special charm, which remains hidden to most tourists.
Read here and discover the beauties of winter in the Eternal City: http://www.florence-tickets.com/the-winter-charm-in-rome.html
"Van Gogh. The man and the earth" - till March 8 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan - is an exhibition that presents a completely new interpretation of the works by Van Gogh, focusing on issues related to Expo 2015: earth and its fruits, rural life, the cycle of seasons marked by the activity of plowing, sowing and harvesting.
Find here more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/van-gogh-and-his-farmers-on-display-in-milan.html
Tuscany offers to its visitors almost everything: art and culture, nature, good food and also rest and relax at the thermal springs. This extraordinary region has a wide selection of natural thermal waters and extraordinary spas.
Read here and discover the best thermal waters in Tuscany: http://www.florence-tickets.com/a-relaxing-holiday-at-the-natural-springs-in-tuscany.html
One of the greatest masters of the Italian XX century, Mario Sironi, is presented until 8th February 2015 with a major retrospective "Mario Sironi. 1885-1961" at the Vittoriano in Rome.
The exhibition is a survey of the entire artistic career of Sironi, painter, illustrator, sculptor, graphic artist, architect and decorator. Read here for more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/mario-sironi-at-the-vittoriano-in-rome.html
Christmas spirit is in the air and we are starting to breathe it in all of Tuscany where, from here to Christmas and beyond, so many events will create an embarrassing wealth of options for those who have decided to spend their Christmas holidays in Tuscany.
Read here and discover the best Christmas events in Tuscany: http://www.florence-tickets.com/christmas-markets-and-more-in-tuscany.html
On display at the Palazzo Blu in Pisa an exhibition dedicated to Amedeo Modigliani, bohemian artist who has reinvented the art of his time and embodied the tormented artist of the twentieth century.
Few men have embodied as Modigliani the romantic myth of the brilliant and transgressive artist. Damned painter with a dissolute life, dandy with great and tumultuous love affairs, misunderstood genius who took refuge in wine and in absinthe, his history, dramatic and brief, remains memorable. Read here for more information and... don't miss the exhibition! http://www.florence-tickets.com/amedeo-modigliani-et-ses-amis-in-pisa.html
For history buffs Tuscany has a lot to offer. Starting from the ancient Etruscan civilization that occupied these lands long before the Romans, between the IX and the III century.
Who wants to discover the Etruscan Tuscany will be spoiled for choice among the various paths that wind through the towns and villages that were founded by this people from Volterra to Fiesole, from Arezzo to Populonia. Read here to know something more about the Etruscan Tuscany: http://www.florence-tickets.com/discovering-the-etruscan-tuscany.html
The Costume Gallery in the Pitti Palace dedicates, until next January 11, an exhibition to one of the great masters of Italian creativity, the costume designer Piero Tosi, awarded in 2013 with an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement.
The Maestro has worked as a theatre costume designer, but he especially succeeded in the cinema alongside great directors, including Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini, Liliana Cavani, Franco Zeffirelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Read here more details: http://www.florence-tickets.com/tribute-to-the-maestro-piero-tosi---the-art-of-stage-costumes-at-the-costume-gallery-of-palazzo-pitti.html
Tuscany is known around the world for its culinary delights, most notably cheese and especially pecorino cheese. One of the best in Tuscany, as well as the best known, is undoubtedly the pecorino di Pienza. If you are fond of cheese, why not think of a holiday in Pienza, near Siena, where nature blends with history and the amazing Tuscan tastes?
A holiday in a farmhouse in Pienza will surely give you the opportunity to discover extraordinary landscapes and delicious flavors of the region, among all, the pecorino cheese. Read here and find more information! http://www.florence-tickets.com/a-visit-to-pienza%2C-the-city-of-pecorino-cheese.html
The Gallery of Modern Art in Florence is known for its collection of Macchiaioli paintings - the most important around the world - but few people know of the interesting collection of twentieth-century works, which so far was confined to the deposits of the museum for lack of exhibition space.
Now it's time to discover them, until March 8 thanks to a new exhibition devoted to the museum’s twentieth-century collections: http://www.florence-tickets.com/lights-in-florence-on-the-xx-century.html
A perfect holiday in Tuscany must absolutely include a visit to Chianti and its delicious wine cellars and wineries. Book a farmhouse surrounded by vineyards and start a nice tasting tour among wines and breathtaking scenery. But to make the most of nature, we suggest something other than the usual: a cycling tour that does not jeopardize your driving license and gives you a chance to work off before starting the next tasting!
Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/discovering-chianti-by-bike.html
An ambitious initiative is underway at the Quirinal Stables in Rome, where for the first time, until 18 January 2015, the Italian public will have the opportunity to discover Hans Memling, the artist who, in the second half of the fifteenth century, became the most important painter of Bruges - the financial heart of Flanders and major Flemish art center - and that influenced many Italian artists, such as Leonardo and Raphael. Take a look here for more information: http://www.florence-tickets.com/memling%2C-the-flemish-renaissance-at-the-quirinal-stables-in-rome.html
For mushroom lovers, the best time to visit Tuscany is undoubtedly fall. The autumn climate is ideal for growing mushrooms with still warm temperatures and damp conditions of the soil. Book an accommodation in the countryside and start searching and tasting (!) these delicious autumn fruits of the earth. Read here: http://www.florence-tickets.com/autumn-is-the-month-of-mushrooms-in-tuscany%21.html
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