WELCOME TO MARIO'S HOTEL IN FLORENCE

Welcome to Mario’s 3 Star Hotel in the Renaissance city of Firenze. With a cosy and friendly atmosphere and a great central location, Mario’s is a family run Guest House style hotel which offers comfort and service with a smile to guests from all over the world. Blending the old world charm of Florence in the fixtures and fittings of a 17th century building with the modern luxuries and comforts expected by today’s traveller, The Florentine hotel owners Leonardo and his brothers like to personally afford each and every guest that personal touch and leave you with happy memories of a pleasant and fruitful stay in Florence.
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mercoledì 28 aprile 2010

Notte bianca a Firenze il 30 Aprile 2010

Una città in festa, tutta la notte, fino alle 6 o alle 7 del mattino. Uno spettacolo stupendo di gente, di strade piene,di musica e di arte. Il 30 Aprile a Firenze sarà la notte della libertà, dove tutti potranno trovare qualcosa adatto ai loro interessi ed esigenze.
Firenze non andrà a dormire, musica, musei, dj set, ristoranti in mezzo alle strade, questa sarà l'atmosfera particolare di questa edizione 2010. Questo il programma completo:

Alle 19 Lezione di Michel Maffesoli sulla Notte Bianca

Alle 18,30 Incontro con Alessandro D’Avenia presentazione del libro presso la libreria Edison

Dalle 14 fino alle 25 Spazio Arti e Mestieri. mostre e installazione

Dalle 19 fino alle 6 Graffiti di Luce a Firenze. Partenza da Piazza delle Cure, giro itinerante per la città alla scoperta dei graffiti

Il gusto del Teatro. Tour teatral-gastronomico fra antiche ricette della tradizione toscana e teatri.

Dalle 19 fino alle 6 Storie della Notte in tempo reale Sei esploratori, per tutta la notte in giro per la città, a catturare immagini e dati su quello che succede in giro, partenza dalla Sala D’Arme di Palazzo Vecchio

Dalle 19 alle 2 Notte bianca a San Niccolò un progetto rionale

Dalle 19 alle 23 Insonnia mistico/amorosa Polifonia sacra e profana medievale e rinascimentale al Museo Bardini

Dalle 19 alle 6 La notte bianca a 30 punti rossi in Via Palazzuolo e in Via San Paolino: 2 installazioni “trenta punti rossi”, e installazione fotografica interattiva dal titolo “bacio alla francese”.

Dynamo EX3 Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea di Firenze inaugura Dynamo, progetto di Michelangelo Consani, vincitore della prima edizione del Premio EX3 Toscana Contemporanea 2010

Dalle 19 alle 1 Carta Bianca alla Notte Bianca Piazza Ognissanti, la cultura francese attraverso cortometraggi proiettati sulla facciata di Palazzo Lenzi e concerti per pianoforte

Dalle 19 alle 23 Pecha Kucha NightSala Vetrate delle Murate.

Dalle 19 alle 24 Pecha Kucha NightIn Via del Sansovino 191, il festival della Pizza da Pizza Man

Dalle 19 Bandao – concerto itinerante di un gruppo di 40-50 percussionisti, partenza da Piazza Santa Croce

Dalle 19 Feltrinelli presentazione del nuovo album di “Il parto delle nuvole pesanti” e alle 22 incontro con Maurizio Maggiani

dalle 19 alle 6 Ultrarno Fast fest letteraria in varie zone dell’Oltrarno

Dalle 19 I Love disco Florence white night tour , tour itinerante con pullman a 2 piani con i DJ di I love disco

Illuminazione Totemica serata multietnica in Piazza Alberti

Dalle 19 alle 1 Cure indipendenti alla notte Bianca + DJ set, concerto di band indipendenti presso la pista di skate accanto allo stadio

Dalle 19 Esibizione itinerante della Sound Street Band. Esibizione itinerante di un gruppo di circa 15 musicisti (con strumenti a fiato e percussione) partenza da Piazza Pitti

Dalle 20 alle 3 TRAMbusto, Dj set, live music and performances sulla Tramvia, partenza dalla fermata di Viale Alamanni

Dalle 20 alle 5 Notte bianca all’Odeon blob di rai3 e Takashi Miike in anteprima nazionale

Dalle 20 alle 1 La Piazza degli Innocenti, concerto del Piccolo Coro del Melograno in Piazza Santissima Annunziata

Notte Bianca in Teatro, eventi al Teatro l’Affratellamento di Via G.P. Orsini

Dalle 20 alle 2 La ricetta del blu rappresentazione interattiva al Museo Bardini

Dalle 21 alle 24 Evocazioni medicee concerto di musica barocca dentro Palazzo Vecchio

White Sabba a Palazzo Strozzi

Dalle 21 alle 6 Notte bianca alla Casa della Cultra Pedonalizzazione di Viale Forlanini

Dalle 21 alle 23,30 Destinazione Luna Torre di San Niccolò, spettacolo di acrobazia aerea, mimo e danza

Dalle 21 alle 24 Notte di note concerto itinerante, dal Museo Bardini alla Biblioteca delle Oblate, passando da Palazzo Vecchio

Dalle 21 alle 6 Teatro la Pergola apertura straordinaria

Vienna Vegetable Orchestra in Piazza San Lorenzo

Concerto del quartetto dell’Orchestra da Camera del Maestro Lanzetta in Piazza Duomo

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle, in Piazza del Grano, musica elettronica, danza contemporanea e visual arts

Dalle 21,30 La piazza, la storia e l’universo popolare, davanti alla Casa di Dante due spettacoli teatrali

Dalle 21,30 LOFT – performance coreografica performance coreografica poi serata di flamenco e aperitivo spagnolo

Dalle 22 alle 23,30“La musica nera nella notte bianca” – la black music del Gospel concerto Gospel alla loggia del Bigallo

Tango e Capoeira per la città e in piazza Tasso

Casa della Creatività apertura straordinaria

Puccini con apparati effimeri agli Uffizi

Puccini con apparati effimeri al Battistero

Alle 22 Scrittori in mutande Biblioteca delle Oblate,lettura-spettacolo divertita dal libro “Storia parecchio alternativa della letteratura italiana” di Antonella Landi

Alle 22 alle 2 Installazione Video interattiva, live vj mix Loggia dei Lanzi

Dalle 22 Notte bianca a Fumetti, incontro sui fumetti e mostra espositiva alla Biblioteca delle Oblate

Dalle 22 Intrecci contemporanei performances e installazioni alla loggia del porcellino

Dalle 22 alle 1 Palazzo Vecchio Music Box project/1_Bach dalle, concerto all’interno di una struttura di plexiglass,

Dalle 23,30 alle 3,25 “Camillocromo” La strada , concerto itinerante in quattro tappe, partenza da Piazza Poggi

Alle 24 “Le Notti Bianche” DOSTOEVSKIJ_SCHUMANN_CHOPIN Biblioteca delle Oblate,Reading musicato attorno alla notte bianca. Esecuzione dei Notturni di Chopin e dei Nachtstucke op. 23 di Schumann

Dalle 2 alle 6 U.A.N. Urban Center Bar, uno spazio chill out nel cuore di Firenze

Alle 5, Salone dei Cinquecento a Palazzo Vecchio, il monologo Volevo diventare pasticciere, al termine caffè e cornetto.

Insonnia Creativa Firenze



MUSEI, MOSTRE, ARTE durante la notte bianca

Palazzo Vecchio aperto fino alle 6. Oltre agli eventi si svolgeranno performances e attività a cura dell’Associazione Museo dei Ragazzi

Palazzo Strozzi apertura straordinaria fino alle 5- Gli eventi
De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. Uno sguardo nell’invisibile. Dalle 20.00 ingresso ridotto € 7,50

Biblioteca delle Oblate apertura fino alle 6 gli eventi
Animazione, food and wine event a cura della Cooperativa Archeologia.

Uffizi apertura straordinaria fino alle 24

Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Firenze Apertura straordinaria delle sezioni museali dalle 20 alle 1
Antropologia ed Etnologia (via del Proconsolo 12)
Geologia e Paleontologia (via Giorgio La Pira 4)
Mineralogia e Litologia (via Giorgio La Pira 4)
Zoologia “La Specola” (via Romana 17) con l’apertura della Mostra Cristalli (con biglietto ridotto)

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Museo di Storia della Scienza Apertura straordinaria dalle 20.00 alle 1.00 delle sedi della mostra con ingresso gratuito
Firenze Scienza. Le collezioni, i luoghi e i personaggi dell’800
(8 novembre 2009 – 9 maggio 2010)
Apertura straordinaria di Palazzo Medici Riccardi dalle 20 alle 1.

Museo Bardini - apertura straordinaria dalle 19 alle 2
Visite gruidate gratuite a cura dell’associazione guide turistiche – gli eventi

Fondazione Salvatore Romano – Piazza Santo Spirito 29
Apertura straordinaria dalle 21 alle 24
Visite guidate gratuite a cura dell’Associazione Guide Turistiche
Le visite guidate gratuite saranno effettuate a cura dell’Associazione Guide Turistiche ogni 20 minuti nelle seguenti lingue: Italiano, Inglese, Francese.

Mostra dall’Artigianato – apertura straordinaria



Noi dell' Hotel Mario's ( www.hotelmarios.com ), come sempre, saremo tutta la notte non in giro, ma ad aspettarvi tornare in albergo, dove dalle 5 saranno offerti cornetti e caffe'.

mercoledì 7 aprile 2010

Calcio storico Fiorentino ( Historical soccer )


In the historic Greece came commonly carried out ludiche recreations with the ball, organizing contests from the names of "Feninda", "Episciro", and, more known, than "Sferomachia" (that it drew the name just from the sphere in game), in which two groups of equal number of players, rury compete to take the ball, offered a more varied and competitive show that, al same time, comprised the exercize of the race, the jump and the fight.

From the Greeks, this ludo, passed to the Roman which, with the name of Harpastum (torn to force) played it on the sabbiosi lands (for which the name harpastum often he was aggettivato with pulveruleotum) practicing to precise rules to which the two squares, always of equal number of players, had to be adhered.

The sport is a cross between Greco-Roman wrestling, rugby and soccer. Goals are scored by pitching the round red and white leather ball over a four-foot high wooden wall that runs the full width at each end of the field. Quixotically, a tall narrow white tent with red trim and a small red flag on top is positioned in the center of each goal wall. In front, stands the captain of a team and a standard bearer with the team flag. When a team scores, the cannon is fired, the scoring team's standard-bearer runs the length of the field waving his flag with his team running behind, cheering. The other team's standard bearer slinks down the field and the teams change goals.
Although the Calcio Storico of today is based on a memorable game held in 1530, the sport actually may have begun as far back as the 1400s. The original games continued until 1739 in Piazza Santa Croce. After a couple centuries of Calcio Storico hiatus, the Fiorentini brought the sport back as an annual event in 1930.
According to ancient testimonies "the game of soccer" is been born "on the river of Arno" and after centuries it is only trasmigrate on that one of the Tamigi where, changed the name in Foot-Ball (game of the ball to foot) and affinaterules, have achieved that reputation, today, universal recognized. Fiorentino Soccer , said also "soccer in custom" or "soccer in livery", is a game that sinks its roots in remote times, the first Italian dictionary of 1612, of the Academics of the Bran, confirms the thesis supplying the following definition: "... the name of a game, just and ancient is soccer also of the city of Florence, like battles ordered, passed from Greek to Latin. Therefore ancient game "just c" of Florence the whose origins, remotest, go then but tried before from the Greeks and from the Latins.
owadays three matches are played, by teams drawn from Florence's four major neighborhoods, in Piazza Santa Croce, on 16th, 24th, 30th of June on the recurrence of the patron -saint. After the long parade headed by the nobles on horseback, starting in Santa Maria Novella and culminating in Piazza Santa Croce, the game begins to cries of Viva Firenze! It is an hour of continuous struggle, attacks, scuffles, blows and tangling of bodies dressed in fifteenth-century costumes. It is intended to echo the famous match of 1530, in the desire to revive and to record a memorable page of the city's glorious history.After a three year pause the Florentine “Calcio” came back last year with friendly match and what about this June 2010? If you come in that period of the year, stay at Hotel Mario's, we are in the city centre, just few metres far away from Piazza Santa Croce where Soccer is played. It will be a real Florentine experience.
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sabato 27 marzo 2010

Santa Maria Novella: Gothic with Italian Renaissance facade


In front of the railway station and two minutes walking far from Hotel Mario's, we can see the Church of Santa Maria Novella, a beautiful example of Gothic with Italian Renaissance façade.
"...Designed in the 1450's, [the facade of Santa Maria Novella] completed the exterior of a medieval church, and yet it has been rightly described as a 'great Renaissance exponent of classical eurhythmia,' for its dimensions are all bound to each other by the 1:2 ratio of the musical Octave. The marble panels, which produce a mosaiclike effect of discrete color patches on medieval Italian church exteriors... here contribute to a sense of rhythmic, geometric unity..."

— Joan Gadol. Leon Battista Alberti, Universal Man of the Early Renaissance. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969. p112.

"From the trecento campaign, Alberti inherited the sepulchral niches with pointed arches, the lateral portals also enclosed by Gothic frames, and the geometrically patterned green and white marble revetment. It was this biochromatism—Tuscan Romanesque in origin and never out of favor in Florence—that Alberti chose as the departure for the revetment system of this new façade (c. 1456-70). Over it, he superimposed a series of tall and narrow arches to accommodate the vertical accent of the Gothic remnants. The arch and the capitals of the engaged order he shaped in a manner not Gothic but Romanesque-antique, thus making possible the introduction of the authoritative Classical language of the entrance, consisting of fluted pilasters framed by noble columns on tall dadoes—this in homage of the Roman Pantheon, a monument exhaustively studied by 'archaeologist' Alberti."

— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p293-4.

venerdì 19 marzo 2010

Arno



The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and takes initially a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa. With a length of 241 kilometers, it is the largest river in the region. Its main tributaries are: the Sieve (60 kilometers), Bisenzio (49 kilometers), Ombrone, Era, Elsa, Pesa and Pescia. The drainage basin amounts to more than 8,200 km² and drains the waters of the following sub-basins:
* The Casentino, in the province of Arezzo, formed by the upper course of the river until the confluence with the Maestro della Chiana channel.
* The Val di Chiana, a plain dried in the 18th century, which, until the 18th century, was a marshy area tributary of the Tiber.
* The upper Valdarno, a long valley bordered from East by the Pratomagno massif and from West by the hills around Siena.
* The Sieve's basin, which flows in the Arno immediately before Florence.
* The middle Valdarno, with the plain including Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Prato and Pistoia.
* The lower Valdarno, with the valley of important tributaries such as the Pesa, Elsa and Era and in which, after Pontedera, the Arno flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea. The river has a very variable discharge, ranging from minimum values such as 6 m³/s to more than 2,000. The mouth of the river was once near Pisa, but is now several kilometres westwards.
It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge (built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo). The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4,500 m³/s after a rain of 437.2 mm in Badia Agnano and 190 millimetres in Florence, in only 24 hours.
The flow rate of the Arno is irregular. It is sometimes described as having a torrent-like behaviour, because it can easily go from almost dry to near-flood in a few days. At the point where the Arno leaves the Apennines, flow measurements can vary between 0.56 m³/s and 3,540 m³/s. New dams built upstream of Florence have greatly alleviated the problem in recent years.
A flood on November 4, 1966 collapsed the embankment in Florence, killing at least 40 people and damaging or destroying millions of works of art and rare books. New conservation techniques were inspired by the disaster, but even 40 years later hundreds of works still await restoration.

mercoledì 17 marzo 2010

The Cathedral Squares goes Pedestrian


All traffic is now forbidden on the Cathedral square and next - by streets, with important changes to bus routes : the closest stops become Piazza San Marco, Piazza Stazione ( railway train station ), Piazza Antinori and the corner of via Oriuolo / via del Proconsolo.
Three electrical minibuses continue to connect the main touristic poles of the city centre.
It's absolutely beautiful walk in the Duomo area and enjoy the quieteness of the square. It's still busy, but instead of loudy cars, there are visitors, tourists, Florentines. Fantastic! The city centre is always been pedestrian friendly, but with this new big and important squadre, close for cars, it's everything changed.
We would need more areas pedestrian, but we cannot forget the resident centre population and give them the possibility to move themself easily in their city.

The illustration is by Leo Cardini