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Palazzo Strozzi for the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification
For the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, Palazzo Strozzi with the Regione Toscana and APT present the following initiatives:
PASSPORT
“Let’s get out of the exhibition and into the city” is the motto we use to explain the concept behind the passports that Palazzo Strozzi produces to link its various exhibitions with the city and to encourage tourists and residents alike to explore Florence and its surroundings. These elegant yet handy booklets provide information on the exhibitions held on the Piano Nobile and in the Strozzina, but they also extend the theme to cover the city at large, its province and indeed the entire region of Tuscany.
You can get it specially stamped just like a real passport (notice the format!) when you visit each of the sites listed in it. Once you’ve collected five stamps, you’re entitled to one free ticket to whatever exhibition happens to be on at Palazzo Strozzi.
For 2011, the year marking the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, Palazzo Strozzi has produced a passport to allow you to visit and get to know streets, sites and museums that marked Florence at that crucial moment in Italy’s history and that are therefore linked to that specific historical era. The many sites listed include the basilica of Santa Croce (which Foscolo was already calling the “temple of Italian glories”, the Italian people’s Pantheon, in 1807); Palazzo Vecchio; sites associated with Pellegrino Artusi (who helped to forge “Italian unity in the kitchen”); the headquarters of the National Garibaldi Veterans Association in the Castagna Tower; Galileo Chini’s fresco in the Montedomini hospice, entitled Remembering the Days with Garibaldi; the Modern Art Gallery in Palazzo Pitti. with its scenes of battles for Italy’s unification by Giovani Fattori; monuments specially restored for the occasion; and also Casa Guidi and the Protesant English Cemetery.
MAP OF FLORENCE
In conjunction with the Florence APT Provincial Tourist Board, we have produced a map of the city (in the same spirit as the one we produced for the Bronzino exhibition) highlighting the sites and areas connected with Italy’s unification and the Risorgimento.
GAME: THE PINOCHIOS OF ITALY
The Pinochios of Italy is a game designed to tie in with the "Passport for Italian Unity" that the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi has produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification. Giuseppe Palumbo, one of Italy’s leading contemporary draughtsmen, has developed a game: if you go into the www.palazzostrozzi.org website’s www.palazzostrozzi.org/pinocchio section, you can zoom from the picture of Italy, as it appears on a Risorgimento map, to four places in Tuscany connected with the birth of the nation (Brolio, Prato, Collodi, Florenze). In one corner you can see Carletto (Carlo Lorenzini, Pinochio’s dad, who was also a patriot and a combatant) running like mad. What is he doing? He is putting Italy together! As he moves around, Carletto leaves a mark consisting of a small wooden Pinochio. If you move your mouse over the Risorgimento sites, you’ll get pictures and information on them. Finding the Pinochios allows you to take part in the game, and if you find all of them (in other words, if you visit all of the places), you win a 15% discount on the price of admission to an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi
Now we’ve forged Italy, let’s forge the Italian people, the Pinochios of Italy!
PASSPORT
“Let’s get out of the exhibition and into the city” is the motto we use to explain the concept behind the passports that Palazzo Strozzi produces to link its various exhibitions with the city and to encourage tourists and residents alike to explore Florence and its surroundings. These elegant yet handy booklets provide information on the exhibitions held on the Piano Nobile and in the Strozzina, but they also extend the theme to cover the city at large, its province and indeed the entire region of Tuscany.
You can get it specially stamped just like a real passport (notice the format!) when you visit each of the sites listed in it. Once you’ve collected five stamps, you’re entitled to one free ticket to whatever exhibition happens to be on at Palazzo Strozzi.
For 2011, the year marking the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification, Palazzo Strozzi has produced a passport to allow you to visit and get to know streets, sites and museums that marked Florence at that crucial moment in Italy’s history and that are therefore linked to that specific historical era. The many sites listed include the basilica of Santa Croce (which Foscolo was already calling the “temple of Italian glories”, the Italian people’s Pantheon, in 1807); Palazzo Vecchio; sites associated with Pellegrino Artusi (who helped to forge “Italian unity in the kitchen”); the headquarters of the National Garibaldi Veterans Association in the Castagna Tower; Galileo Chini’s fresco in the Montedomini hospice, entitled Remembering the Days with Garibaldi; the Modern Art Gallery in Palazzo Pitti. with its scenes of battles for Italy’s unification by Giovani Fattori; monuments specially restored for the occasion; and also Casa Guidi and the Protesant English Cemetery.
MAP OF FLORENCE
In conjunction with the Florence APT Provincial Tourist Board, we have produced a map of the city (in the same spirit as the one we produced for the Bronzino exhibition) highlighting the sites and areas connected with Italy’s unification and the Risorgimento.
GAME: THE PINOCHIOS OF ITALY
The Pinochios of Italy is a game designed to tie in with the "Passport for Italian Unity" that the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi has produced to mark the 150th anniversary of the country’s unification. Giuseppe Palumbo, one of Italy’s leading contemporary draughtsmen, has developed a game: if you go into the www.palazzostrozzi.org website’s www.palazzostrozzi.org/pinocchio section, you can zoom from the picture of Italy, as it appears on a Risorgimento map, to four places in Tuscany connected with the birth of the nation (Brolio, Prato, Collodi, Florenze). In one corner you can see Carletto (Carlo Lorenzini, Pinochio’s dad, who was also a patriot and a combatant) running like mad. What is he doing? He is putting Italy together! As he moves around, Carletto leaves a mark consisting of a small wooden Pinochio. If you move your mouse over the Risorgimento sites, you’ll get pictures and information on them. Finding the Pinochios allows you to take part in the game, and if you find all of them (in other words, if you visit all of the places), you win a 15% discount on the price of admission to an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi
Now we’ve forged Italy, let’s forge the Italian people, the Pinochios of Italy!
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