
Tourism, villages try to keep up but big cities still dominate
Italian villages try to move up in a tourism market still dominated by traditional destinations. As was apparent during the last "Arts and Events 100 Italian Cities" which took place in Bologna, visitors, especially if coming from certain countries, are still mainly interested in typical mass tourism destination: Florence, Venice, Rome, Milan. In particular, visitors coming from central or eastern Asia are interested in traditional destinations. European visitors, especially

"Botticelli and the Search for the Divine". The great 400-500 Florentine painting lands in
From 11 February to 7 April 2017, the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, will host an exhibition of great international concern: "Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities".
The great painter of the Italian Renaissance, Sandro Botticelli, will be celebrated with an exhibition that includes, among others, one of the two existing Venuses. This painting, normally exposed in the Sabauda Galler