From late April through June, the Florence Maggio Musicale, May Music Festival, is a series of internationally acclaimed classical music concerts and recitals, opera and ballet in venues across the city. Tickets can be hard to come by, so check the online schedule and purchase tickets in advance.
For over twenty years, Montelupo Fiorentino, a small town just outside Florence with a centuries old tradition for arts and handicrafts, has been hosting the International Ceramics Festival.
There are art exhibitions with ceramics from all over the world, laboratories, special visits and competitions. The whole town comes to life with events and occasions which celebrate the important local history and above all to present its best contemporary productions.
Visiting Montelupo Fiorentino from 2-5 June means immersing oneself in a unique atmosphere of art, creativity and performance but also of taking the opportunity to wander through the city streets full of food and handicraft stalls or participating in the many activities on offer.
Gambassi Terme becomes a fantasy village for adults and childern who wants to have fun in the respect of the nature.
Characters like ogres, fairies, gnomes will lead you in a day full of games andimagination.
On June 24, Florence celebrates the feast day for its patron saint, St. John the Baptist, considered the "symbol of moral rectitude and political correctness"* on whom medieval Florence aspired to build its economic fortune and good government of the Republic. The image of the saint was even stamped on the city's currency, the florin.
The day has thus been a day of celebration for the city through the centuries. Every year, for St. John, the city organizes several cultural and folkloric events that end with the magnificent fireworks show, called i fochi di San Giovanni by Florentines.
30th Tignano Festival for the Environment and Meeting of Peoples. Among the aims of the Cultural Committee that organizes it to raise public awareness through meetings on social, environmental and peace issues and dialogue between cultures, not forgetting the lightness and fun that have characterized Tignano Festival since the first edition of Del 1988.
Building lifestyles and habits that can help you live happily often passes through a change of individual's attitudes, in ways of perceiving and interpreting reality. Also in this edition of the festival, sponsored by Tuscany Region and Metropolitan City of Florence and in collaboration with the Municipal Union of Chianti Fiorentino, there will be the occasion to reflect through meetings with protagonists of local life and artists.
