Florence is renown for its top quality craftrnanship, handed down through centuries of tradition, and for its elegance and good taste in creation. Typical are Florentine straw products, original articles of clothing and furnishings as well as the finest leather, known for its exquisitely refined workmanship; ceramics and glassware; wood and metal crafts, furniture and bric-a brae, in other words, a host of ...

The 20-year-old Oscar Wilde enthuses over the Etruscans in the old Archaeological Museum when it was in the Via Faenza; from The Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Then to the Etruscan Museum, which is in the suppressed monastery of San(t') J Onofrio and most interesting. You come first to a big tomb, transplanted from Arezzo; cyclopean stonework, Museo Archeologicodoorway with sloping jam ...

Dj at the Museum Friday November 27, 9pm till half past midnight Museo Stibbert (Via F. Stibbert 26, Florence) ENTRANCE + BUS SHUTTLE FOR FREE !! Dance to the tunes of DJ Albertino from Radio DJ, with special guest star Elenoir Casalegno, surrounded by the Stibbert Museum’s 50,000 pieces of armour and antiques. A unique and exclusive experience not to be missed: be part of the first event of this sort in Tu ...