A book collection belonged to the Sansoni family, who lived in the current Town Hall from 1880 to 1943. The 903 works in 1345 volumes of the collection, mainly from the 1800s, belonged to the private...
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Piazza Serristori, 50063 Figline Valdarno FI, Italia
The Municipal Theatre of Figline e Incisa Valdarno, named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, was built near the 14th century walls of the "cassero" on a design by the architect Angelo Pierallini and on the...
In the heart of Florence, the desecrated church of Santo Stefano al Ponte is one of the lesser-known masterpieces of this city’s architectural heritage. The entire structure has been digitally mapped...
The “Teatro Puccini” was newly opened in 1940 as a theatre for the Recreation Workers’ Circle. After the war, it was used as a dance hall and for boxing matches; then, between 1964 and 1972, business...
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Via Leonardo Da Vinci, 1n, 50132 Firenze FI, Italia
The “Teatro le Laudi” was born in Florence in the early ‘80s as the most important part of a complex of structures created with the contribution of many people, in order to build a community house, a...
Born at the beginning of the past century as a small parish hall and closed during the II World War, the theatre re-opened at the end of the ‘50s with a bigger auditorium, provided with comfortable...
Among the main centres for leonardian studies in Italy, the Leonardian Library gathers to date over 16.500 works by and about Leonardo da Vinci, among which the duplicates of all his manuscripts and...
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Via Roma, 47, 50026 San Casciano in Val di Pesa FI
The history of the Teatro Niccolini begins in 1845 with the Magistrate of the San Casciano Val di Pesa Community who grants the concession of a plot of land for the construction of a theatre, provided...
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Via Bolognese, 68, 50014 Pian di San Bartolo-Trespiano FI, Italia
In Pian di San Bartolo (Fiesole), the building that was once the seat of “La Marzocco”, the prestigious factory that produces coffee machines, today houses the Academy of Caffè Espresso, a cultural...
The theatre was built in 1792 in a Doric-Tuscan style on a design by a Florentine architect, possibly the same one who designed the Teatro Niccolini in Florence, and commissioned by the Accademia...
