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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Charlottesville and Poggio a Caiano, a town in Tuscany, Italy, with a population of 10,000. In celebration, a delegation traveled to the area to spend a week exploring the history that connects the two cities. The seven-member group of government officials and their wives...

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The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere presents "The Etruscans: One of Three Great Civilizations in Italy". A Presentation by Francesco Bonavita, PhD. Tuesday, July 11, 2017 @ 7:00 PM The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, T. 718-273-7660, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301 Who are the Etruscans who are often labeled a...

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The Medieval Catholic cathedrals, seats of the authorities of God, government, Popes, nobility, and learning, are consummate examples of spaces that brilliantly utilized all of the arts to create an inspirational feeling of awe.* Unique in grand architecture, aesthetic ornamentation, representational paintings, mosaics, frescoes, and sculpture, plu...

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Il cinema muto, tra emigrazione e ritorni” è il titolo della mostra, a cura Fausto Casi, direttore del Museo dei Mezzi di Comunicazione, organizzata e patrocinata dal Comune di Arezzo. La mostra verrà allestita nelle sale espositive di Palazzo di Fraternita, dal 1 luglio al 15 agosto. Sarà corredata dal volume/catalogo, scritto dallo stesso Casi. “...

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Florence's Uffizi art gallery will this year play host to an outdoor cinema, for the first time in its history. There will be seats for up to 285 people to watch the films screened as part of a summer festival in the Renaissance city. And best of all, the whole thing is free of charge. Florence mayor Dario Nardella announced the project together wi...

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Wedged between Florence and Rome, rural Tuscany offers the quintessential Italian experience: sun-soaked hill towns, green and rolling screen-saver hills, romantically fortified farms, and cypress trees marching single file up lonely ridges. We go to Italy to experience the finesse of Florence, the splish-splash of Venice, and the grandeur of Rome,...

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Dagli Stati Uniti all'Italia per un mese di studi a Firenze, con l'opportunita' di visitare le più belle città del Belpaese. La Palazzo Strozzi Foundation Usa si conferma ambasciatrice del Rinascimento italiano nelle scuole americane, dando a 18 studenti di alcuni istituti fra i più problematici di New York, Los Angeles e Detroit l'opportunità di p...

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In the madness of late spring at San Marco Square in Venice, amid the hordes pouring in from land and sea, hard by the hissing espresso machines and sizzling panini presses of overpriced cafes, I found the still point of the turning world. I found it in the library. It was 10 in the morning and I was standing, alone and enthralled, on the second fl...

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La città dei musei ospita la responsabile di uno dei più importanti centri museali degli Stati Uniti d’America dal punto di vista della tutela dei diritti umani. Il Rosa Parks Museum di Montgomery Alabama è dedicato a Rosa Parks, “la madre del movimento per i diritti civili americani” perché fu protagonista del primo episodio emblematico della batt...

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Situated in the north of Tuscany, the City of Carrara faces the Ligurian Sea, and rests in front of a background of imposing Apuan Alps. The city blends with the Alpines along a string of fascinating and mutating sceneries, where outlines in white – of both mountains and extracted marble – have shaped the history and fate of this place.

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