Lungoungiorno is an event for handicraft and an opportunity to discover a historical space in Oltrarno, fully restored: the Conventino, now called SAM (Arts and crafts space) in via Giano della Bella.

The Conventino has always been a place dedicated to art: in the Twenties some important Italian artists were working in the Conventino halls.

Gourmet è un appuntamento gastronomico a cui ci ha abituati il comune di Montelupo Fiorentino, che torna i prossimi 17 e 18 dicembre.

Non si tratta di un semplice mercatino natalizio, ma di una panoramica sulle produzioni di qualità e sui prodotti tipici, arrichita quest'anno dall'iniziativa Streetfood sotto l'albero.

The eleventh edition of “I Mai Visti” is currently being exhibited in the Sala delle Reali Poste of the Uffizi Gallery. During the Christmas period, this event offers the public the opportunity of admiring works of art, taken from the  Gallery’s store rooms, which have never been seen before.

The Sagra degli Antichi Sapori della Toscana – a town fair dedicated to ancient Tuscan food traditions – will be celebrating its eighteenth birthday at Lastra a Signa from 3rd to 11th December.

A jolt of energy will hit Florence from 23rd to 25th September.

The entire city will be taken over by the events of the Festival dell’Energia, the Energy Festival, the most important on this theme in Italy.

The exhibition in the State Archives of Florence celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy has an “educational” flavour.

The Gipsoteca – the collection of plaster casts – of the Accademia in Florence includes numerous plaster casts of statues by Lorenzo Bartolini, a XIX-century sculptor to whom the Galleria dell’Accademia is dedicating a one-man exhibition.

500 oggi. Le vite dell'arte in contemporanea è un progetto di installazioni di artisti contemporanei nel palazzo di Giorgio Vasari, la casa nella quale visse a Firenze in borgo Santa Croce e della quale è appena stata aperta al pubblico la Sala Grande, completamente affrescata.

Florence’s biggest park, the Cascine, will be providing a charming setting for country life in Tuscany: a setting in which the ten Provinces will be representing the ten aspects of the world of agriculture, land, rural and mountain landscape and everything that relates to these.

This fall, the Park of Villa Caruso in Lastra a Signa will be opening its gates to a very interesting event for those who love nature. This event is Botanica, which brings together themes related to art, science and the knowledge and preservation of the world of plants, focusing in particular on ancient or forgotten species.

The centenary of the birth of Annigoni is still being celebrated with the exhibition Pietro Annigoni in Pontassieve, which pays homage to the artistic output of this outstanding figure of the 20th century. Annigoni, an internationally acclaimed artist, was born in Milan in 1910, but Florence was his adoptive city.

Michelucci e Fiesole, un legame di sensazioni e amori con quella che fu una delle "città di Michelucci". Il grande architetto originario di Pistoia visse sulla collina fiesolana la sua lunga vita. A venti anni dalla morte (Michelucci morì il 31 dicembre 1990, pochi giorni prima di compiere 100 anni) Fiesole lo ricorda con una mostra di disegni.

Game lovers from all over will be meeting in Florence on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October at the Saschall for FirenzeGioca, a fair entirely dedicated to games, which this year will be celebrating its 15th birthday. The protagonists of this incredible world will be welcoming a public including curious visitors, players, adults, teens and children, for two days of pure entertainment.

Ceramic art will dominate the art scene of Certaldo and of the entire Valdelsa in the autumn of 2011, thanks to the fifth edition of “CONCRETA”.

“CONCRETA”, the contemporary art project which aims to affirm the importance and the relevance of ceramics in the contemporary art scene, will, in fact, take place again, from September 3rd to November 1st, 2011.

Torna Digiarte, la manifestazione che si occupa di arte contemporanea e nuove tecnologie con uno sguardo privilegiato alla fotografia digitale. Il tema dell’edizione 2011 è un confronto genarazionale,  come recita il titolo Under 20/Over 60 Nati digitali o divenuti tali.

The photographic exhibition which is on at the Museo Chini of Borgo San Lorenzo shows  Mugello as it was one hundred years ago.

With Mercantia, for five days Certaldo becomes the Italian capital of street theatre, with approximately 100 shows which every evening from 7 pm until late at night invade the medieval town of Certaldo Alto.

In the summer 2011, the Diacetum Festival is once again offering seven evenings of top-quality music and performances.

From 17th July to 6th August it will be bringing together international artists in the cool summer evenings.

For the second winter appointment at Pitti, comes Pitti Bimbo with its colourful world of children’s fashion.

The fashion week starts on 19th January, full of events and catwalk shows dedicated to children’s clothing by the most famous fashion brands. 510 collections will be presented at this edition, of which 200 are from abroad, extending over an area of 47.000 sq.mt of exhibition space.

La mostra Galileo Experimenta, che si tiene dal 14 al 29 gennaio 2012 presso la Galleria delle Carrozze di Palazzo Medici Riccardi è dedicata agli strumenti per la didattica nei laboratori scientifici delle scuole superiori prodotti dalle Officine Galileo durante il secolo scorso.

A conferma della loro funzione, la gran parte degli strumenti esposti proviene da alcune scuole fiorentine e altre certamente hanno strumenti scientifici Galileo nei loro laboratori.

Saturday 30th April is the date for the Notte Bianca (Sleepless Night) of Florence.

It’s an extravaganza of numerous small-scale events taking place in various places of the city, with something for everyone: iinstallations, dance, theatre, and much more.

The new exhibition of Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze takes the visitor on a journey to the roots of Florentine power in Europe, but it also explores the economic mechanisms which allowed the Florentines to dominate the world of trade and business and in so doing , to finance the Renaissance as an artistic season.

Through My Window, the big itinerant exhibition of the Korean photographer Ahae, will be in Italy for the first time in Florence, at the Museo Nazionale Alinari della Fotografia, from 1st December 2011 to 8th January 2012.

Until January 22, 2012 the CCC Strozzina hosts the exhibition Decling Democracy. Rethinking Democracy between utopia and participation.

The exhibition takes place at the same time as Money and Beauty, in the Palazzo Strozzi.

DeGustiBooks, a special event dedicated to good food and good books, will take place in a very special location, the greenhouse in the Giardino dell'Orticoltura in Florence. 

The Genius of the Territory – the series of cultural events under the combined auspices of the Province of Florence and the various townships – is with us again.

Giorgio Vasari, Cosimo I’s court architect, and the making of the Uffizi Gallery are the subjects of an exhibition to be held over a period of four months in the Uffizi Gallery itself.

The exhibition will illustrate the planning of the Gallery both as a nucleus of power in the centre of the city and as an extension of two palaces: Palazzo Signoria and Palazzo Pitti.

It is an edition nr. 2 for Wine Town scheduled on September 24 and 25.

A wine event with good music, shows and games in the old palazzi and squares of Florence.

On 4th November the 2011 edition of Chianti d’Autunno (“Autumn in Chianti”) will begin. This event is the result of a collaboration between the provinces of Florence and Siena, involving the eight municipalities which form the Chianti district in a rich programme of events.

The name Chianti is enough to bring to mind many ideas: centuries of history, a landscape which is the result of many transformations, highly renowned wines. Chianti is culture, traditions, wine and food, crafts, and typical local produce, intimately connected with the work of those living in this special and unique district.

A wealth of taste-tickling Sunday events await tourists in the Mugello and Florentine mountains in the month of October, during which, apart from tasting local specialities like chestnut tortelli, puddings, chestnut flour cake and whole boiled chestnuts, visitors can admire the treasures of the small villages.

The annual Tuscan festival Archaeological Nights 2011 is back for the 11th consecutive year from 2nd to 31st July.

Over 240 events are planned to celebrate and discover the region's past in over 100 museums, parks and archaeological sites.

Ten days of art and artistic craftsmanship are being presented at L’Arte del Gusto il Gusto dell’Arte, an event dedicated to creativity and food, that for the town of Pelago has become a pleasant end-of-summer tradition.

During the weekend of 2nd and 3rd July the prominent cultural institution of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and the neighbouring town of Impruneta, with its ancient origins and traditions, join forces in a series of events in the name of art and good food.

After Rome and Venice at last Florence can be added to the list of Italian cities with a Hard Rock Cafe.

Just off piazza della Repubblica it's really worth a visit.

Firenze Gelato Festival is a mouth-watering event that will transform Florence into an open-air ice-cream parlour.

The Travel Festival, Il Milione – a series of meetings, shows and exhibitions – comes back after its “outward journey”, in Florence in last June with a return journey, a late summer new date.

From Sptember 8 to 10 it is in Florence talkink about travel and different worlds.