New Olive Oil's Degustation

In November, Tenuta Le Viste propose to its guests the degustation of olive oil (extra virgin) from the olives gathered directly by hand and run through the cold press within 24 hours of picking. From Monday to Tuesday, it will be also possible to taste the traditional Tuscan dishes prepared with the new olive oil. You will have also the free of charge possibility to visit the olive mill in Pisignano. More information on our olive oil : www.leviste.it/en/index.html

REDUCTION ABOVE ALL PRICES ON THE RESERVATIONS FOR OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER

DOUBLE ROOM STANDARD RAFFAELLO - € 160,00 DOUBLE ROOM SUPERIOR GIOTTO - € 170,00 DOUBLE ROOM DELUXE BRUNELLESCHI - € 180,00 DOUBLE ROOM DELUXE MICHELANGELO - € 190,00 SUITE MICHELANGELO X 2 PERSONS - € 235,00 The price is for one night for 2 people and includes the continental breakfast-buffet.

The Places of Giovanni Fattori at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, past and present

The Places of Giovanni Fattori at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, past and present: an exhibition curated by Giuliana Videtta and Anna Gallo Martucci and promoted by the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze invites visitors to carefully analyse not only the works but also the places that house them. The exhibition accompanies the visitor through 60 years of Fattori’s artistic life but it also offers a unique occasion to enter the history of one the most important institutes for Florence’s artistic life, the Florence Academy of Fine Arts where the union between the Academy of Drawing, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy Gallery that still existed at the end of the 19th century has been ideally recreated. For the first time, visitors can follow Fattori’s footsteps through the loggia, the cloister, the garden, they can stop in the classroom where the artist taught in his last years (reconstructed with period furnishings, they can enjoy a “view” of the Library, the Refectory, which still evoke the old Convent of San Matteo, of the Bartolini’s Gallery of Plaster Casts which is today housed in the Academy Gallery but which at the time was an integral part of the Academy of Fine Arts and of the 17th century Chapel by Giovanni da San Giovanni. At the same time visitors can admire more than 130 works including painting, drawing, etching and engraving. The exhibition: 19 September - 23 November 2008; Florence, Academy of Fine Arts and Academy of Drawing - Via Ricasoli, 66 Exhibition hours: Every day 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. The ticket office closes one hour before the exhibition closing. Entrance to the exhibition: € 5.00 full; € 3.50 reduced Info and bookings Tel. +39 055 2638599 prenotazioni@cscsigma.it http://www.giovannifattori.it/fattori_places.phtml

Rinascimento Virtuale, Contemporary Art Exhibition

Part of the Festival della Creatività, this exhibit examines the cultural contrast between ethnography and anthropology through contemporary art created and live only in the various social media. For more information call 055/2346760 www3.unifi.it/msn

Caterina and Maria de Medici: Women in Power

Palazzo Strozzi's newest exhibit highlights the lives of two Florentine women who became queen of France. Call 055/2645155 or visit: www.palazzostrozzi.org