BY Alessandra The 13th edition of 'The Places of Time' arrives, from May 27 to June 15, 2023. Having now overcome the uncertainties of the pandemic emergency, it can deploy all its energies with a lively program involving the most evocative locations in the Maremma area. Some events are dedicated to Italo Calvino whose birth centenary falls this year, [...]
BY Alessandra The historical re-enactment Follos 1838 is back, this year even richer with side events to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the town of Follonica. As it has every year for the past 18 years, the Follos 1838 event takes place on the second Sunday in May. It is a historical re-enactment in nineteenth-century costumes, to relive the atmosphere [...]
BY Alessandra Showing off, showing off, joining in a parade, exhibiting actors to draw audiences to a performance, "Parade" means a bit of all of these. We have chosen an evocative French word to gather the program for the new September cultural event in Follonica. The Culture Yard Committee, representing the many cultural associations in the area, then involving others from Tuscany and [...]
BY Bianca Virtual Tour of Follonica - from the Sea to the ILVA (Part Two) The ILVA Gate is one of the symbols of Follonica: a huge cast-iron portal, decorated with allegories of the four natural elements: water, earth, fire and air, allows visitors to enter the interior of a foundry, which under the direction of Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine, experienced great [...]
BY Follonica Online The Art Nouveau style is inspired by nature and includes floral and plant motifs, vines, animals, insects and unusual small mollusks. This style, which originated in Belgium at the turn of the 1800s and 1900s in Italy, can be found mainly in Turin, characterized by elegant decoration, linear forms, and stylistic and design consistency between function and form. [...]
BY Follonica Online Follonica lies in the center of a gulf bordered on the north by the promontory of Piombino and on the south by the promontory of Punta Ala, such a position allows one to enjoy a beautiful seascape. Rimmed on the horizon by the silhouette of several islands. From the beach, with your back to the city and your gaze to the sea, farther [...]
BY Follonica Online This article recounts a series of suggestions about Follonica taken from the memoirs of Leopold II, a kind of diary in which the Grand Duke recounts, with an abundance of detail and undoubted prose, his experience in Tuscany, a land in those years, the first decades of the 19th century, with many aspects, rich and opulent, but also, in the [...]
BY Follonica Online In this what should have been the period of the Follonica Carnival, but which greater causes have prevented, it is nevertheless nice to remember what the origins of the town carnival, initially called CARNEVALE MAREMMANO, are. The Maremmano Carnival was officially born in 1910 and, initially, it was expressed only through parties and vigils. Starting in the 1920s of the [...]
BY Follonica Online With a series of articles, which will gradually be published on this site, it is intended to illustrate what has been the evolution of Follonica, which began as an industrial village, to become over the years a seaside resort and, subsequently, an important city with mainly tourist ambitions. The following illustrates the process in its first phase: [...]
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