Day: February 21, 2025

It is time to celebrate the largest and the oldest public museum in europe! Open to the public in 1775 today, La Specola Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary. La Specola, which is part of the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, started as the personal collection of the Medici family. The museum takes …

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February 18th, 1743 Anna Maria Luisa, the last descendent of the Medici family, died. She was a forward thinking woman and she was fundamental in defining Florence as the city of art for which it is now known the world over. Among her achievements was the “Patto di familia” which established that the Lorraine, the …

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