Ten days of music, performances, entertainments in Livorno, starts today 31 july, a new edition of “Effetto Venezia”. The Venezia quarter is charming area, filled with canals, islands,bridges, many from the 17th century designed for mercantile class. Shows, theatrical performances and concerts give life to the historical district. The big Read more…
The Buena Vista Social Club back to Lucca for a Cuban rhythms nigh: tuesday 28 july The story A Cuban revolutions go, it was an entirely peaceable uprising but its impact could have been more profiund. On the realease of the Buena Vista Social Club album in 1997, few outside Read more…
Lucca can present a no more seductive nor lasting image than a tournament of its Compagnia Balestrieri, its Company of Crossbowmen, dressed in full medieval regalia-bold patterns and colors, brilliant against the white stone facades of one of the city’s venerable piazzas. Accompanied by its retinue of heralds, standard beakers, Read more…
It’s time again for the Versilia Chamber Music Festival at pieve a Elici (Massarosa, Lucca)! Last year the two glamorous Russian siblings Kirill Troussov (violin) and Alexandra Troussova (piano) closed the festival. This year they will open it on 5 july, but each date in the programme is a must, Read more…
GALILEO GALILEI. IMAGES OF THE UNIVERSE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE TELESCOPE Galileo’s first celestial discoveries date to exactly 400 years ago, and to mark this fourth centenary the United Nations has declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy. Florence has decided to pay homage to the human and intellectual epic Read more…