If you are planning to spend just a couple of days in Florence, you likely will not want to lose the opportunity to see and enjoy its artistic beauty.
Power and Pathos
Palazzo Strozzi
Florence
14.03.2015 | 21.06.2015
Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is hosting a major exhibition entitled Power and Pathos. Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, devised and produced in conjunction with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, Tuscany’s directorate general for archaeology.
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Fulvio has visited the exhibition and really enjoyed it and recommnends adding it to the many things to do in Florence in the coming months.
Calendimaggio
Assisi
06.05.2015 | 09.05.2015
The Calendimaggio is linked to pagan customs celebrating the return of spring and the renewal of the cycle of life with different rituals, all marked with joy. The spirit of the spring festival is a melody to love and newfound zest for life after the bitter cold days of winter. They danced, they drank the wine of the previous year after the due period of rest!
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Serremaggio
Serre di Rapolano (SI)
09.05.2015 | 17.05.2015
The festival is dedicated to the story of Ciambragina the beautiful maiden, who was swept away from her distant home in Cambrai, France, to be married to Giovanni de' Rossi, a wealthy merchant from Siena of the 1300.
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La Fiorita
The blooming of Castelluccio di Norcia
Castelluccio di Norcia is a small Hamlet located in the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini (Mount Sibillini National Park), at an altitude of 1452 meters and a few kilometers (about 28) from Norcia (PG), in Valnerina. The Borgo is located at the top a hill in the middle of a plateau in front of the Mount Vettore. The plateau is divided into 3 sections: Pian Grande, Pian Piccolo and Pian Perduto. For a total of 15 km², which during the year appear chromatically "poor".
The "monotony" is broken between late May and early July of each year by the spectacle of nature (the case was never more appropriate for such an idiomatic expression) called "The Fiorita" or "The Fioritura" (The Blooming) of Castelluccio di Norcia.
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