Michelangelo

March 6, 1475

Today in Florence we remember the birth of Michelangelo, the supreme genius of the High Renaissance and one of the most influential artists that Art has ever had. It is impossible to separate Florence from one of its most beloved sons. Florence and Michelangelo are forever intertwined in the history of man’s greatest moment. Both …

The Royal Apartments

Inaccessible since 2020 the Royal Apartments reopened on January 21st, 2025. The apartments are open to the public every day, from Tuesday to Sunday. Whenever in Florence don’t miss the opportunity to walk where three ruling dinastyes lived: Medici, Lorraine and Savoia. Get ready to discover marvellous rooms:

La Specola Museum celebrates its 250th anniversary

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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Anna Maria Luisa

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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Happy Fibonacci day 2024

Happy Fibonacci day! Today is time to celebrate mathematics. Fibonacci day is November, 23rd. Why? Because today’s date 11/23 (1,1,2,3,5,8,13….)is the beginning of sequence named after Leonardo Pisano, aka Fibonacci. He was a medieval Italian mathematician who wrote Liber abaci (1202; “Book of the Abacus”), the first European work on Indian and Arabian mathematics, which …