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    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Prime property
      Hot property: five homes for sale in wine country

      From California’s Napa Valley to Spain’s Sherry Triangle, these properties offer plenty of reasons to raise a glass

    • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
      Travel
      Part pageant, part brawl: watching the world’s most brutal ball game in Florence

      Once a year, the final of the Calcio Storico turns this genteel city wild

      Players warm up ahead of the Calcio Storico final
    • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
      How To Spend It In...
      A weekend in Florence with Pucci artistic director Camille Miceli

      An insider’s guide to the romance and bustle of Italy’s Renaissance jewel

      Camille Miceli on Ponte Santa Trinità
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      OutlookMarianna Giusti
      Florentines view American visitors with ambivalence — as one student found to her cost

      A recent online storm raised questions about the city’s treatment of its visitors — but locals have valid complaints too

      A view from the Boboli Gardens, a historical park in Florence
    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      Travelista
      Five marvellous micro-hotels

      Retreats that coddle with character, from the Netherlands to the Chianti hills

      Vignamaggio’s Villa Il Casolese
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      EU recovery fund
      Italy at odds with Brussels over using EU money for football stadium

      European Commission delays Rome’s recovery funds by a month after questions over plans

      An Italian Serie A soccer match between ACF Fiorentina and US Lecce
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, V&A — exhilarating glimpse of Florentine master

      The UK’s first ever show devoted to the artist has psychological intensity and revolutionary technique

      A bronze sculpture of a bearded man’s head, his eyes looking upward
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Robert Armstrong
      Classic menswear is having a comeback

      At Pitti Uomo in Florence, tailored clothes were promiscuously combined with streetwear — to mostly good effect

      Two men in jackets
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      European prime property
      Home sales in Florence continue to flourish

      Demand remains high in the historic, cosmopolitan and ever-inspiring city

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      HTSI
      The gorgeous world of Oscar Ghiglia

      A little-known Italian colourist is finally getting his dues at a Florence exhibition

      La camicia bianca, 1909, by Oscar Ghiglia
    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      FT MagazineTim Hayward
      Trattoria Sostanza — this is where to eat in Florence

      It’s full of Italian families, the interior hasn’t been touched since 1945 and the food is a work of art

    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      Travelista
      Compelling cultural happenings for Italophiles

      Artisans in Florence, boat races in Venice and an extraordinary show of might in Lazio – what to see and where to stay this September

      The terrace at The Gritti Palace in Venice
    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Travel
      The wild woods of Tuscany

      Oasyhotel, a new collection of lodges on a WWF reserve, is only 40 miles from Florence but offers deep immersion in forests where wolves still roam

    • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
      FT SeriesThe HTSI property special: spring 2022
      Inside Manifattura Tabacchi, one of Italy’s biggest regeneration projects

      Pier Luigi Nervi’s once-abandoned landmark is surging back to life

    • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Donatello: The Renaissance — a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime show

      An outstanding exhibition across two Florence venues highlights the master’s genius and long-lasting influence

    • Friday, 12 November, 2021
      How To Scent It: the fragrance trends you need to know
      Step inside the greatest chemist in the world

      Officina Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella is celebrating its 800th anniversary. Here’s how Florence’s beauty secret has quietly conquered the planet

    • Sunday, 6 June, 2021
      HTSI
      Travel news: four ways to rediscover your mojo

      From the artisanal heart of Florence to a barbecue by the banks of the Hudson

    • Friday, 27 March, 2020
      Visual Arts
      Gentileschi and the resurgence of early female artists

      Artemisia Gentileschi is in the public eye, and her female contemporaries are finally receiving overdue recognition

      Restored: 'The Last Supper' by Plautilla Nelli
    • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
      Renée Kaplan
      Italy counts the cost of its brain drain

      The young and talented are leaving the country in search of professional opportunities

      Tourists sit in a coffee shop in downtown Rome, Italy, August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Max Rossi - RC1DD1759DD0
    • Friday, 23 August, 2019
      Life & Arts
      The battle for Italy’s art

      A populist bid to rein in museums risks politicising the country’s cultural treasures

      Museum technicians move Raphael's dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddalena Strozzi, to the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, on June 3, 2018. Eike Schmidt, the Uffizi's director, is rearranging the famed gallery so works can have a dialogue with one another and the public can get up close. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times) Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevine
    • Friday, 22 March, 2019
      European prime property
      Why expats are looking to settle in Florence

      Potential buyers are drawn to the city’s vibrant culture and annual flat tax

      Italy, Tuscany, Firenze district, Florence, View of the City with Ponte Vecchio Bridge and Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
    • Tuesday, 18 September, 2018
      Insurance
      Hurricane Florence could cost insurers up to $4.6bn
    • Sunday, 16 September, 2018
      Property sector
      Hurricane Florence leaves trail of devastation as death toll rises

      Catastrophic flooding displaces thousands across North and South Carolina

      An abandoned car's hazard lights continue to flash as it sits submerged in a rising flood waters during pre-dawn hours after Hurricane Florence struck in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., September 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
    • Friday, 14 September, 2018
      US politics & policy
      Hurricane Florence brings strongest winds in 158 years to N Carolina coast
    • Friday, 13 July, 2018
      Life & Arts
      From Brunswick to Florence: treasures on the doorstep

      Cecilie Hollberg seeks to entice Florentines back to the wonders in their city’s Galleria dell’Accademia

      View of the town from San Miniato u000d
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