SUNDAY, FEB 7th - FREE ENTRANCE IN ALL STATE RUN MUSEUMS OF FLORENCE

Sunday, Feb 7th, 2016 (the first sunday of the month) the state run museums of Florence will be free of charge !!!

There is no need to make reservationS, just queue up and in few minutes you will enter the museum.

Here is the list of the state run museums that you can visit:

 Galleria degli Uffizi, 

Galleria dell'Accademia,

 Galleria Palatina e Galleria d'Arte Moderna,

 Museo degli Argenti, Galleria del Costume, Museo delle Porcellane,
Giardino di Boboli e Giardino Bardini,

 Museo del Bargello,

 Cappelle Medicee,

Museo Archeologico,

 Palazzo Davanzati,

Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto.

VINTAGE SELECTION n. 27

 

VINTAGE SELECTION n.27: “V Generation”, the Vintage Generation

From Wednesday Jan 27th to Sunday Jan 31st, 2016, the venue that was formerly Florence’s first railway station [Stazione Leopolda] will be hosting the 27^th edition of VINTAGE SELECTION, the market-fair featuring vintage fashions, accessories, miscellanea and remakes, that logged over 13,500 visitors at the previous winter edition. 

 

Vintage Selection has earned itself a special status amongst the Italian and European fairs that have fashion, design and vintage culture at their heart. This is a result of the various special features that have so powerfully contributed to its success to date: first and foremost the scouting and selection of the exhibition proposals, but also the fact that it is held concomitantly with Pitti Filati, the key international event featuring yarns for the knitting industry organized by Pitti Immagine at the Fortezza da Basso from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 January. A unique synergy has been established between these two events which, for five days, will transform the city of Florence into a big yarn and quality clothing exhibition-event.

 

Similarly the title-theme of Vintage Selection 27 will be “V Generation”: the “Vintage Generation”, the multi-generations of very young men and women, as well as the young and not so young people who love to wear clothing and accessories from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and ’00s, mixing them according to their own personal style of dressing and creating new trends.

 

“V Generation” will be the guiding-theme inspiring the fair’s latest layout in the Stazione Leopolda curated by Alessandro Moradei and will inspire VVV VERY VINTAGE VISION, an exhibition-installation occupying the area at the center of the two aisles, along both sides of which all the stands will be arranged as well as the other areas devoted to entertainment, meetings and refreshments that characterize Vintage Selection.

 

It is open every day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and it cost €5 to enter the fair area.

Tickes are available on web site www.stazione-leopolda.com

facebook.com/vintageselection
Tel. +39/055-212622  

 

Here you can find more useful infos http://vintageselection.blogspot.it/ 

 

 

 

 

NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERTS - 2016

Are you thinking to visit Florence and you will be in town for the New Year night ??

Then you will be one of luckiest people to enjoy some nice concerts in the most importants piazzas.

Here is the program:

Capodanno 2016 a Firenze

POP ART PONTE VECCHIO

Some of the Florence monuments are getting lighted these days and I got some pictures of Ponte Vecchio.

Amaizing !!!

 

 

 

   

 

 

     

  

 

  

  

 

  

REOPENING OF THE BAPTISTERY

After 2 years of renovations the baptistery of Florence is becoming ready for the new opening
on  Oct 25th, 2015.

The scaffolding is beeing dismantled these days while the north gate builded by Lorenzo Ghiberti in years 1403-1424 has moved and is visible in the new Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.

It took Ghiberti 21 years to complete these doors. These gilded bronze doors consist of twenty-eight panels, with twenty panels depicting the life of Christ from the New Testament. The eight lower panels show the four evangelists and the Church Fathers Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine. The panels are surrounded by a framework of foliage in the door case and gilded busts of prophets and sibyls at the intersections of the panels. Originally installed on the east side, in place of Pisano's doors, they were later moved to the north side.

 

Check this video to see how they mooved this heavy door into the museum !!!

They did it twice one for each side on the door. The weight of each side is 4000 kilos...