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Three days in Tuscany to discover the Etruscans: journey to the heart of ancient civilization

Three days in Tuscany to discover the Etruscans: journey to the heart of ancient civilization

Tuscany preserves some of the most fascinating evidence of the Etruscan civilization, which flourished between the 9th and 1st centuries BC before being absorbed by Rome. To travel in the footsteps of the Etruscans is to immerse oneself in a time sus...
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The animals of the Palio and where to find them: symbols and identity of the Contrade of Siena

The animals of the Palio and where to find them: symbols and identity of the Contrade of Siena

The Palio di Siena is one of the most fascinating and complex events in Italy, organized directly by the City of Siena. Every year, on July 2 and August 16, ten out of seventeen contrade run the historic competition and compete for the prestigious dr...
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Prato, St. Francis church restoration completed, reopening after seven years

Prato, St. Francis church restoration completed, reopening after seven years

The church of San Francesco in Prato, one of the first Franciscan churches in Italy, is once again opening its doors to all: in fact, the restoration that kept the building closed for seven years is over. The exceptionally complex and lengthy interve...
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Siena, the Thebaid rediscovered: restored 14th-century frescoes by Lippo Vanni

Siena, the Thebaid rediscovered: restored 14th-century frescoes by Lippo Vanni

In Siena, in the heart of the monumental complex of Santa Maria della Scala, an important chapter of 14th-century painting returns to view. After a long and careful restoration, the fresco cycle of the Thebaid, attributed to the Sienese painter Lippo...
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Inside the Museum of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona: the museum as told by its technical committee

Inside the Museum of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona: the museum as told by its technical committee

From the heights of Cortona, a town overlooking the Valdichiana, the MAEC - Museum of the Etruscan Academy and the City of Cortona - continues to tell, with an ever new voice, one of the most fascinating stories of antiquity: that of the Etruscans. H...
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San Gimignano welcomes donation of Raffaele De Grada's paintings and tools

San Gimignano welcomes donation of Raffaele De Grada's paintings and tools

San Gimignano is enriching its cultural heritage with thepermanent entry of seven paintings and some working tools that belonged to Raffaele De Grada, a Milanese painter who died in 1957 and who chose the Tuscan city as his chosen home after his marr...
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Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

The major 2025 exhibition on Fra Angelico in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026) had, among others, the merit of offering the public, in the first room of Palazzo Strozzi, a kind of ideal reconstruction ...
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Paolo Gioli returns to Volterra: a dialogue between face, time and Etruscan memory

Paolo Gioli returns to Volterra: a dialogue between face, time and Etruscan memory

Until January 11, 2026, the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum in Volterra is hosting The Reflected Spouses. Paolo Gioli in Volterra, an exhibition project that ideally brings artist Paolo Gioli (Sarzano, 1942 - Lendinara, 2022) back to the Etruscan city fort...
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