What is the week of culture? It is a very important event involving all the State Museums with specials and free tickets access. Here in Florence you can visit: the Uffizi Gallery, Academy Museum, Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, Bargello Museum, Medici Chapels, and many other attractions. All of them free of charge!

Is is possible to get tickets in advance? Yes of course! You can use the online booking service available on the Official state museums web site or if you’re a guest at Mr My Resort Inn we’ll do that for you (no credit card needed). If you intend to pre-book your tickets to avoid the long lines, then you will pay just for the pre-booking service, which is a great advantage.

What are you waiting for? Florence is so sweet in April and you will have a very good time here. Walking in the city of the Renaissance will be the most exciting experience ever, admiring the David, watch the city lights from the Ponte Vecchio… In addiction, you can’t miss the opportunity to spend a vacation at Mr My Resort Inn during the free entrance week to the main museums in the city center!

You can also think about the possibility to take a daily trip to Pisa or Siena and visit their museums, since this event is valid for all the State Museums in Italy.

Book your room at Mr My Resort, and we’ll do your Culture Week 2011 special!

Week of Culture, April 9-17, 2011. Valid for all State Museums in Florence.

This year Easter falls on Sunday April 24th, and on that day there is the most special event of Easter week in Florence: the explosion of the cart “scoppio del carro” in the Duomo square. If this is your first time in Florence you can’t miss it!

This is an old popular and religious tradition ending in fireworks, meaning a peaceful and rich year for the city of Florence. All locals are used to go to the Piazza del Duomo to see this spectacular tradition attracting also many tourists.

**During Easter week all museums and shops are regulary open. Shops will be closed just on Sunday Easter Day, but Uffizi, Academy, Pitti Palace, etc. are open 8-15am – 6.50pm as usual (always better to pre-book your museum tickets! If you’re a guest of Mr My Resort you can ask us to book the tickets for you in advance without additional costs).

**Restaurants: open all days, as usual. The tradition here in Italy says that you must spend the Pasquetta Day on April 25th outside the city, together with your family, and with a pic-nic set to enjoy traditional Easter food in the countryside, parks, green areas.  Easter day is usually at home or at the restaurant, and many menu include lamb, spinach, boiled eggs, chocolate cakes decorated with Spring flowers or simple home-made cakes with almonds and organge flowers essence.

 What to book at Mr My Resort Bed and Breakfast? You can call us at +39 055 283955 or simply go on our official web site and take a look at our romantic rooms in the pictures on the photogallery! The“check availability” link to the top of the page will make you start your vacation in Florence now! 

Here I give you some tips about the New Year’s Eve in Florence. Locals are used to spend the night of 12/31 in two ways: stay at home (or go to the restaurant) with friends and families for the traditional Cenone di Capodanno, or eat before midnight (pizza or a restaurant witha menu “à la carte”), then spend the night in the Lungarni on the river or in the piazza, champagne in a hand watching the midnight fireworks and then go for a drink (!) or a cappuccino&croissant in a Café.

This year, Florence offers several opportunities to spend and unforgettable New Years End in Tuscany:

Concerts in the squares, free access: “Elio e le Storie Tese” in Piazza Stazione (pop music), gospel choruses in Piazza SS. Annunziata, the traditional “Classic Concert” by maestro Lanzetta in the Signoria Square,  and the marching band “Funk Off“ in Piazza della Repubblica.

Restaurants open on 12/31 (book your table in advance!)

- Osteria Pepò and Osteria Tozzo di Pane: both unexpensive, both with a menu “à la carte”, friendly staff and good tuscan food. Very close to the Mr My Resort B&B, on your way to the Duomo square and Uffizi Gallery. Both are open on 1/1, too.

- Alle Murate: one of the most elegant places to eat in the city center. Expensive, Excellent, Exclusive. Duomo square.

A couple of good Cafés  open on 12/31 night: Gilli in Piazza della Repubblica, between the Duomo and Signoria square, and the Grand Caffé San Marco, in S. Marco square, very close to Mr My Resort BB and at the corner with the Academy Gallery and the David.

Did you already book one of our romantic rooms to spend your Christmas time in our beautiful city?

Most of our guests here at Mr My Resort bed and breakfast ask if Florence is open during Christmas and the New Year’s Eve vacations. Here is the answer: YES!

The city offers several exhibitions: from the one about Caravaggio (Uffizi), to the other about Bronzino, one of the most beautiful exhibition I have seen here in Florence since 10 years. There is also an important exhibition about an italian “naif” painter Ligabue in Palazzo Pitti, and you can’t miss the Damien Hirst diamonds skull in Palazzo Vecchio.

Traditional Christmas concerts and operas are scheduled in the most important theatres in the city center, such as Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Verdi and the Teatro della Pergola.

This year Xmas falls on Saturday, and shops are open all day on Friday. On Dec. 25th and 26th you can decide to have your Christmas lunch/dinner at Pepo’s (à la carte menu), take a walk to the Piazza della Repubblica for your cappuccino at Gilli Caffé (one of our favourite ), which is a very good place also for the aperitifs, too, and it is an elegand old-tylish Italian Café where it will be nice to seat and watch people, talk about your Christmas presents, write postcards to your family…

Higly recommended: a walking tour of the city center. The Old Bridge is a must, and it won’t be so crowded since locals are used to spend this day at home with families and at 5pm the Panettone cake is still on the lunch table…  You can walk up to the Piazzale Michelangelo and enjoy the great panorama from the San Miniato Cathedral, while the  Christmas lights begin to shine…

Remember that on Dec. 27th all the shops, cathedrals, bars, boutiques and small museums (Duomo included) are regulary open, and the famous food San Lorenzo Market (together with the leather stands in the streets) will be open and ready to offer all the best Tuscan food you can find in the city center.

 Tuesday Dec. 28th we inform you that ALL MUSEUMS IN FLORENCE WILL BE OPEN FOR FREE from 8.15AM to 11PM

 Very soon: how to spend the New Year’s Eve in Florence.

*** The picture was took by me at the San Lorenzo Church, right yesterday evening

State Museums in Florence free entrance:

Uffizi Gallery (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm), Academy Gallery (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm), Bargello Museum (open util 5pm), Palazzo Pitti (Tue-Sun 8.15am-6.50pm) with all its galleries and together with Boboli Gardens its galleries and the Giardino Bardini  (Tue-Sun 8.15am- 5.00pm/7.30pm), Medici Chapels, San Marco Museum.  

As you know, Mr My Resort hotel is located in Florence downtown, just a few minutes walk to all the most important museums and cathedrals. Check our availabilities or send an enquiry from our official web site …

 From May 28the art of ice-crea making in Florence’s most beautiful squares of the city center. Very close to Mr My Resort accomodations, 2 steps from the Academy Gallery, the elegant Piazza SS. Annunziata will host the Gelato Show Performance and a “village” of ice-cream parlours where you can sample various flavours of the top – Italian artisanal gelato makers, and in Piazza della Repubblica you can find the best Italian quality industrial gelato “Sammontana”: the most famous, the oldest and the most traditional here in Italy.

The Italian Gelato was born right here in Florence during the Renaissance as a “iced flavoured sugar water”, and exported with Caterina De’ Medici in France (do you know the Café Procope? It was the most important ice-cream parlour in the country around 1665). The first important Italian ice-cream maker was the florentine Ruggeri, a chef of roast-chickens with a passion for cakes, and a few years later Buontalenti, “the” florentine architect with a cooking passion made his “crema del Buontalenti” with honey, orange and lemon flavour, eggs, milk, a drop of sweet wine. This gelato is still available in most of the excellent florentine ice-cream parlour, even the recipe is different considering the use of sugar instead of honey, and other ingredients…

During the Gelato Festival the most important italian artisans will be at your disposal to give informations, suggestions, and show their products. Activities desinged for children available.

There is a special Firenze Gelato Festival card that you can buy in Piazza SS. Annunziata which allows you to get discounts on tastings and public transports.

Hey, don’t miss your stay at Mr My Resort, check the availability and visit our rooms here: http://www.mrflorence.it/eng/Hotel-for-honeymoon-in-Florence.html

YOU CAN ALSO LIKE OUR GELATO TIPS:

- Re Gelato ice cream
- Gelateria Perché No?
- Grom ice cream
- Gelateria Carabé

On the occasion of the IV centennial of Caravaggio‘s death, there will be a total of more than 100 works coming from research, new attributions, most of them well-known, some unknown.

The Exhibition will have the same opening time of Pitti and Uffizi: 8.15 am – 18.50 pm, closed on Monday. The cost of the ticket will be euros 14,00 per person (euros 10,00 museum+exhibit. and euros 4,00 museum booking service).

Caravaggio is one of the most important italian artists, and you can’t say you’ve been in Italy and missed him…

Book your room at Mr My Resort here http://www.mrflorence.it/eng/Hotel-for-honeymoon-in-Florence.html and we will arrange your museums tickets without additional costs!

Here is a very short list of various events you will discover in the city from the afternoon of May 8th until the evening of May 9th. You can find the complete calendar of events on L’Europa in 27 ore – La Notte Blu

- Concerts:  in Piazza della Repubblica street bands and classic music, jazz concerts, rock music from the afternoon of May 8th.

- Santa Trinita Church: guided tours from 8.00pm on May 8th.

- Happy Hours and Light dinner in cafes, bars, pubs located in the city center (Caffé Deluxée, Caffé ChiaroScuro, Caffetteria delle Oblate, Cuculia Libreria…)

All the events are linked to Europe’s life, including traditional food

Let’s come to Florence and enjoy the European Day! Spend the night at http://www.mrflorence.it !!

The special event include numerous concerts and artistic performances throughout the city center, and here is a short list of scheduled events, all of them at a very walking distance from MR My Resort bed and breakfast.

- Uffizi museum open 8.15am – midnight

- Palazzo Medici Riccardi open 8.30am – midnight

- Duomo square: concerts and videos

- Palazzo Strozzi open all night

- Bookshops: most of them open all night until 6.00 am may 1st

- Piazza della Repubblica: concerts

- Piazza San Lorenzo: concerts and food stands

…. and much more. Book your stay now and come to enjoy your special night in Florence!

The International Handicraft Trade 2010 in Florence is not only a trade show, but also a special cultural event where to admire high quality artistic handicrafts, innovating ideas and projects looking to the future.

It’s a very interesting event for visitors, architects, desingers, artisans… Don’t miss the section dedicated to the food, which is simply irresistible and where you can taste everything, from the mozzarella cheese from Neaples to the smoked fish from Sardinia isle, organi beers from Tuscany countryside and much much more…