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Category: Florence (Italy)
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Bans, Fees, Taxes. Can Anything Stop Overtourism?
Efforts to limit visitors in tourist hot spots have had mixed results, at best. Competing interests have a way of impeding attempts to stem the tide.
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An Italian Jewelry Designer Focuses on Color and Shape
Angela Caputi’s vibrant styles are made with lightweight resin.
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Golf Carts, Loudspeaker, Lockboxes: Florence Bans Tourism Headaches
The popular Tuscan destination is the most recent European city to consider measures aimed at making life in a tourism hot spot more bearable.
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Roberto Cavalli, Designer Who Celebrated Excess, Dies at 83
From the mid-1990s onward he was one of the biggest names in fashion, with stores around the world and celebrity admirers like Lenny Kravitz and Cindy Crawford.
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A Filmmaker Needed a Quiet Place to Write. Where Better Than a Tuscan Villa?
Albert Moya has optimized his apartment, part of a 14th-century estate in the hills of Florence, for work and lounging.
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Jewelry Class Echoes the Florence of Old
Tourists eager to do more than sightsee gain new skills and insights from schools’ intensive courses.
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Are ‘Secret Room’ Drawings by Michelangelo? Now, Visitors Can Judge for Themselves.
Since its discovery nearly 50 years ago, a room beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence covered in sketches has been closed to the public. Next month, that will change.
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Minding the (Jewelry) Store
The New York-based jewelry designer Temple St. Clair has entered her shopkeeper phase with her own boutique in Manhattan.
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Wildfires and Heat Transform Italy and Greece Into Tourism Nightmares
Record heat and wildfires have turned summer holidays into nightmares and called into question the future of cherished tourist destinations.
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Milan Fashion Week: Italian Men’s Wear Does a Power Edit
Lauren showed psychedelic tuxedos, Armani and Zegna stripped things down and Chris Pine made the rounds during a potent fashion season in Florence and Milan.
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Italian Men’s Wear Does a Power Edit
Lauren showed psychedelic tuxedos, Armani and Zegna stripped things down and Chris Pine made the rounds during a potent fashion season in Florence and Milan.