The Italian-American owner of the purple club, the New York Cosmos and Mediacom Communications dies, age 76. Born in Calabria in 1949, Commisso emigrated to the United States with his family at the ...

The University of Florence has awarded an honorary master’s degree in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies to Ferruccio Ferragamo in recognition of the entrepreneur’s longstanding contribution to ...

A team led by researchers from the University of Florence has discovered a completely new material hidden within the remnants of the first atomic bomb explosion in history. The discovery was ...

Students, volunteers and local residents are helping to reintegrate collections of texts that lost their cataloguing references in the chaos of 1966. The initiative turns remembrance into ...

It was April 1879 when Florence inaugurated its first horse-drawn tramway, linking the city centre to Peretola before extending to reach Prato and Poggio a Caiano a year later. The city’s old tram ...

Tomorrow at 11am, Italian department store COIN will reopen in Florence near the exit to the Uffizi Galleries after shuttering operations on the former via dei Calzaiuoli premises last Christmas Eve.

Accademia del Caffè Espresso is pleased to announce a special public opening on Saturday, May 9, giving visitors the ...

Stretching across the seventh floor of the Gallery Hotel Art, the 701 Rooftop Bar is the latest addition to Florentine ...

The bridge that links Le Cure and Campo di Marte with the rest of Florence is set to be demolished and rebuilt by September 2026. Railway disruptions will be limited to a few days, and traffic ...

This document decreed that the immense artistic and historical legacy of the Medici family had to remain inextricably linked to Tuscany. The third article of the pact states Anna Maria Luisa’s desire ...

On summer mornings, I sit at my sixth-floor window and welcome my breakfast visitors. They come uninvited, adorable, elegant and mostly dressed in black. A few sport a red foulard beneath the chin. I ...

Lasting about 2 years, the works were carried out under the surveillance of the Superintendency for Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Florence, Pistoia and Prato. The restoration presented an ...