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Carnival of Cento

Lucilla — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:22:19 +0000

Cento (Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna), February 5th – 12th – 19th – 26th – March 5th 2012. The most extravagant Carnival in Europe is twinned with the Brazilian Carnival for the style of its allegorical floats, the beautiful costumes and for the riotous fun. Cento is a town near Ferrara in Emilia-Romagna and it will host many famous guest stars for the world of culture, sport, entertainment as well as beautiful floats in papier-mache’.

www.carnevalecento.com

Carnevale dei Figli di Bocco

Lucilla — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:13:18 +0000

Castiglion Fibocchi (Arezzo). February 5^th- 12^th2012 . On 5th and 12th February in Castiglion Fibocchi, a town near Arezzo, will take place the 16th edition of the Carnevale dei Figli di Bocco (Figli di Bocco Carnival). Castiglion Fibocchi is situated along the Roman road called Cassia Vetus, near the mountain of Pratomagno: a characteristic town dating back to the medieval period, exactly to the XII century. This carnival is an old event, when the participants wear fabulous baroque costumes and artistic paper-pulp masks. The carnival of Castiglion Fibocchi has been often compared with the Venice Carnival.

www.carnevaledeifiglidibocco.it

Great Carnival of Laughter of Busseto

Lucilla — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:58:52 +0000

Busseto (Parma) . February 5^t^h- 12^th- 19^th- 26^th 2012 . A whole month of festival is programmed just 50 miles from Parma: Busseto offers its traditional Carnival: “Il Carnevale della Risata”. The event dates back to 1600 and since 1993 is twinned with the Rio Carnival.

www.carnevaledibusseto.com

Carnival of Historic Ivrea

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:48:45 +0000

Ivrea (Turin) January 6^th- February 22^nd2012. Traditional sounds of pipe and drum bands open the festival that sees the most spectacular event of the famous Battle of the Oranges (on 8 March). Undoubtedly, this is the most spectacular event of the festivities representing the fight for liberty, the symbol of the Ivrea Carnival. The orange battle is an incredible cultural and goliardic heritage putting the festival on a national and international level.

www.carnevalediivrea.it

America’s Cup World Series in Naples

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000

Bagnoli (Naples), 7th – 15th April 2012. The prestigious America’s Cup World Series will come to Bagnoli, a seaside district of Naples in April this year. The Neapolitan coastline is undergoing extensive regeneration and the races just one of the projects currently undertaken by the authorities to help this process. The AC World Series features tight, shortrace courses designed to deliver closeracing for the fans on shore as well as TV audiences. The innovative regatta format includes a mix of speedtrials, head-to-head matchracing and all-out fleetracing.

www.americascup.com.

Rome Marathon

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:23:31 +0000

Rome: March 18th 2012. Since the early years of the twentieth century the roads and squares of the Eternal City have seen some of the really mythical moments of the whole history of racing on foot. It is an event that unites spirit and passion with alternative routes for non-professionals.

www.maratonadiroma.it

RBS Six Nations Rugby Tournament

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:10:00 +0000

Rome: 11^thFebruary & 17^thMarch2012

The most important European Rugby Tournament returns to Italy (Stadio Flaminio in Rome) this year with the following matches:

Italy-Englandon11^thFebruary2012

Italy-Scotlandon17^thMarch2012

www.rbs6nations.com

Lux in Arcana: the Vatican Archive revealed

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:52:52 +0000

Capitoline Museum, Rome 1st March – 9th Setember 2012. An unprecedented cultural and media event: 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the Popes’ Archive, will leave the confines of the Vatican City walls for the first time in history, and will be admired at the Capitoline Museums in Rome, from February till September 2012, for the exhibition Lux in arcana – The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself. Conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors. Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters. Manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments. A unique and once-in-a-lifetime event recounting history through its sources.

www.museicapitolini.org

Americans in Florence: Sargent and the American Impressionists

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:41:35 +0000

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 3rd March – 15th July 2012. The exhibition explores the American impressionists’ relationship with Italy, and with Florence in particular, in the decades spanning the close of the 19th and dawn of the 20th centuries. There was a marked upswing in the number of American artists travelling to Europe after the Civil War ended in 1865, and the trend continued on into the early 20th century. For the first time since recent exhibitions in France and England explored these American artists’ relationship with those two countries, this exhibition will be hosting the work of American painters who embraced the artistic vocabulary of Impressionism and spent time in Italy.

www.palazzostrozzi.org

Divisionism, the Light of the Modern

Lucilla — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:34:02 +0000

Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo (Veneto) 25th February - 24th June 2012. Divisionism was the Italian answer to the French Neo Impressionism between 1890 and the end of the First World War which co-existed alongside the works of Signac and Seraut. Instead of “stipples” the Divisionists used strokes of colours often one on top of the other to obtain the desired effects of light. The main protagonist was in fact the “light” used to express a new form of emotion, freedom, spiritualism and hope for the future. Works from: Segantini, Pellizza, Balla, Boccioni and many more.