Art music and popular, ethnic or metal, classical, pop, jazz; music in all its variations is at home in Bologna. It represents a vital part of the city’s genetic profile which has earned the…

There is no other place quite like it like in Bologna. So many elements of history, religion, culture, and art come together here. This ex-monastic complex includes the Tagliavini Museum of Musical Instruments, the…

At the end of the 20th century, a group of students and teachers from the clock-making department of the Leonardo da Vinci Technical Institute in Florence passed through the gates of Villa Medicea di…

Over the centuries the land around the valley of the River Reno halfway between Bologna and Pistoia has held great strategic value. In the 11th century a fortress was constructed in the hills by…

Since 1980, the Rossini Opera Festival has been presenting masterpieces from the repertory of the great composer Gioachino Rossini. This year’s event, the twenty-eighth festival, will be held from the 10th to the 22ndAugust.…

La scuola pisana d’architettura e pittura è molto particolare, con caratteristiche uniche. Una volta passato il Lungarno, fermatevi e ammirate il bellissimo complesso del monastero di San Matteo in Soarta, precedentemente occupato dalle monache…

The marvellous city of Verona sits on a bend of the River Adige. It would have been hard to find a better place to found a city. The original landscape was rich in wildlife.…

Throughout history, we have expanded the boundaries of the visible and found new perspectives. The development of optics and the evolution of art have gone hand in hand, and artists were armed first with…