Posted inFlorence (Italy) Pedicabs and Rickshaws Tour Groups Travel and Vacations 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. Posted by By Paige McClanahan
Posted inCavalli, Roberto Deaths (Obituaries) Fashion and Apparel Florence (Italy) 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. Posted by By Steven Kurutz
Posted inFlorence (Italy) Interior Design and Furnishings Medici Family Movies springdesignissue 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. Posted by By Kurt Soller and Ricardo Labougle
Posted inEducation Florence (Italy) Gold Handicrafts Jewels and Jewelry vis-photo Jewelry Class Echoes the Florence of Old Tourists eager to do more than sightsee gain new skills and insights from schools’ intensive courses. Posted by By Susan Wright for The New York Times