Pitti Immagine in Florence ( next to Hotel Mario's )

As explained in the website Pitti Immagine is Pitti Immagine organises some of the world’s most important fashion events: international quality clothing and textile fairs, communication happenings and cultural and research initiatives for the fashion system and fashion as the aesthetic expression and global evolution of taste. Famous in the world Pitti Immagine Uomo and Pitti Bimbo.
PITTI UOMO:
Pitti Immagine Uomo is the exhibit of men’s fashion - clothing, accessories, objects - that every year opens the European and international calendar of trade fairs in the textiles and clothing sector. It provides a world-wide focus among the trade fairs, representing the dynamic reality of contemporary men’s fashion. The event presents a cross-section of the market, from the classic to the informal, to the avant-garde, culminating in high-end collections offering both strong images and product content.
PITTI BIMBO:
The world preview of clothing and accessories collections for children and teens (0 to 18 years), maternity wear, and childcare products for the fall-winter season.
Pitti Immagine Bimbo is the world’s reference in fashions for the youngest set and the focus of trends and novelties for the whole industry.
Pitti Immagine Bimbo is a trade fair open to experimentation, characterized by a broad product offer and continuing research into quality and look. It is divided into 4 sections:
Pitti Bimbo. The most classical and elegant styles mixed with a contemporary spirit.
Sport Generation. Jeans-wear and collections inspired by the world of sports.
New View. The most creative fashion with the highest research content: individualism and a taste for originality.
Kids’ Design. Objects and furnishing accessories for an attentive niche market with demanding tastes.

Exhibition organizer
Pitti Immagine Srl

* Via Faenza, 111
* 50123, Florence (FI)
* Tel: (+39) 055/36931
* Fax: (+39) 055/3693200
* Email: dir.generale@pittimmagine.com
* URL: http://www.pittimmagine.com


Exhibition Centre
Firenze Fiera S.p.A

* Piazza Adua, 1
* 50123, Florence
* Tel: (+39) 055/49721
* Fax: (+39) 055/497323
* Email: info@firenzefiera.it
* URL: http://www.firenzefiera.it




HOTEL MARIO'S is the most closest 3 stars hotel to Fortezza da Basso, it's very convenient join Hotel Mario's during Pitti period or some of the events organized from Pitti.
The Hotel Mario's parking is exactly between the Hotel and Fortezza da Basso ( Piazza del Crocifisso ).

Bronzino in Florence in September 2010 at Palazzo Strozzi

Considered one of the greatest painters of the sixteenth century, the work of Agnolo di Cosimo Tori, known as Bronzino embodied the fullness of the Mannerist style. Bronzino. Artist and Poet, the first exhibition to be devoted to his paintings, will be staged at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
Bronzino's work will be part of a major exhibition at the Palazzo
from 24 September 2010 to 23 January 2011, which will include some of his paintings from museums such as Florence's Uffizi, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, alongside works by his master Pontormo and his best loved pupil, Alessandro Allori.
The show will bring together a wide variety of Bronzino’s masterpieces, many of them displayed together for the first time. Alongside the works conserved in the Uffizi, the exhibition will present works such as the Adoration of the Shepherds from the Szépművészeti Múzeum in Budapest, the Portrait of Young Man with a Book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and two versions of the Holy Family and Saint John, from the Louvre and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. In addition, the newly restored Panciatichi Crucifix and the lost right-hand panel that was originally part of the Besançon Altarpiece will be on public display for the first time.
The exhibition is curated by Cristina Acidini, Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, the foremost experts on the period, who have also contributed essays to the accompanying catalogue.
Location: Palazzo Strozzi
Piazza Strozzi, 50123 Firenze (Florence), Italy Tel. +39 055 2645155 www.palazzostrozzi.org

Exhibition hours:
Daily 9 am to 8 pm, Thursday 9 am to 11 pm.
Last admission to the exhibition 1 hour before closing.

Admission: Adult: €10.00; concessions: €8.50, €8.00, €7.50; schools: €4.00
Booking: Sigma CSC, Tel. +39 055 2469600, Fax. +39 055 244145 prenotazioni@cscsigma.it; or via www.palazzostrozzi.org

You can visit Florence and find an accomodation in an hotel that loves art where you can breath art: Hotel Mario's, via Faenza 89 ( close to the train station Santa Maria Novella, easy to reach if you arrive in Florence by train ).You can contact our staff by email : info@hotelmarios.com or just checking the availability on the website: www.hotelmarios.com

Hotel Mario's, an art lover hotel