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Sporting
Events
Costume di Calcio - June, medieval soccer match played by residents and inmates from Florence's 4 traditional neighbourhoods. See these wanna be football players tear each other to pieces whilst dressed up medieval costume. The Palio - July and August, bareback horse race round the cobbled streets of Siena, Fiorentina football matches - watch the local soccer club fortunes change as it begins to fight relegation from Serie A.
Cultural
Events
All year - Art Galleries and Museums, Shopping, traditional
festivals feast of St John, The Scoppio del Carro, Maggio
Musicale, Cascine Park Opera, Fiesole Etruscan Festival
Nightlife
Nightclubs, open air music, rock concerts (Sting lives just outside Florence), Irish pubs in Florence, English language cinemas, Romantic atmospheric Restaurants, Clubs
Business
International exhibitions and world summits, Pitti Fairs and
Dates, medical conferences in Florence plus the IAUES international
anthropological conference in July 2003
Please check our our photo
gallery of Florence
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