St. John's Day
The event is preceded by a historic parade through the streets of the city and ends in the evening with the fireworks "i fochi".
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Labels: Art, Exhibition, History
The rich variety of exhibitions, museums and galleries in Florence is really wide. From February 14 to July 31, the Medicea Laurentian Library proposes a new exhibition devoted to writing. The event, entitled "The Shape of the Book: from Roll to Code (3rd Century BC - 19th Century AD)", enables to discover the materials and the various tools used to write from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, both in the West and the East.
The exhibition is divided into two sections, one old and the other more recent, which are characterized by exposure of ancient pottery, fragments of papyrus rolls, wooden tablets, scrolls up to books made in medieval monasteries and rolls from China and Japan.
Info: www.bml.firenze.sbn.it
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Labels: Culture, Exhibition, History
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence, with the collaboration of Istituto degli Innocenti presents the exhibition "Ludus in fabula. Games and images in antiquity", a journey through the History that Florence offers with the representation of life and games of children in the remote past of humanity. The large number of finds, mainly from the Collezioni Medicee and consisting of dolls and toys (also made with nuts and bones), is accompanied by a series of images of children during antiquity.
The exhibition is open from February 3 through June 2008 and is characterized by the free entrance.
Info: tel. 05523575
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Labels: Exhibition, Games, History