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On September 14th, 2011, at4.30 pm , will be held the ceremony aimed to offically dedicate the Amphitheater of the Auditorium al Duomo to Andrzej Tomaszewski. The Auditorium al Duomo is part of the Centro “Congressi al Duomo”, collaborates with the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco® and Life Beyond Tourism®, and it is a cultural complex in the hearth of Florence, [...]

We are glad to inform our readers about an information circulated by IPOGEA (www.ipogea.org): Held in Beijing, the FAO International Forum on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) ended today in Beijing. 150 experts representing 120 organisms, including 70 member countries and 50 organizations, took part in the event. The Forum discussed issues concerning agriculture, the [...]

Every year, UNESCO and ICOMOS celebrate the 18th of April as the World Heritage Day, and they dedicate this day to a different topic every year. In 2011, it has been addressed to the Heritage of Water. In Italy, ICOMOS Italia has promoted a series of events and initiatives in Florence, Venice and Assisi - all happening on [...]

Dear readers, With a view to the conference The 8 Life Beyond Tourism® Principles-from Theory to Practice to be held in Florence on February 20th, 2011 at the Life Beyond Tourism® Auditorium al Duomo , we are collecting relevant contributions by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation‘s Experts, and we are glad to share them with [...]

Heritage Education and Tourism by Dr. Anna lobovikov-Katz, 2011 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ELAICH Coordinator ELAICH is a EU-funded Project in the framework of Euromed Heritage 4 Programme, and it is aimed at awareness raising among the general public, and especially youth in cultural heritage, its values and its preservation and conservation. The [...]

Success is judged by quality and is not simply calculated in terms numbers. This is the standard of excellence by which the Costume Colloquium II: Dress for Dance will be judged, noted and remembered. Costume Colloquium II: Dress of Dance did not disappoint and lived up to the high expectations of all its organizers and [...]

The Comune di Castelfiorentino, the Assessorato alla Cultura, and the BE–GO Museo Benozzo Gozzoli are organizing a new exhibition in the context of  “La Città degli Uffizi”: from April 30th to July 31st 2011 the exhibition Benozzo Gozzoli e Cosimo Rosselli nelle terre di Castelfiorentino. Pittura devozionale in Valdelsa will be held in Castelfiorentino at [...]

A new edition of  ‘La Città degli Uffizi’ is going to open soon in Figline Valdarno! ‘La Città degli Uffizi’ is a project including a series of art exhibitions scheduled to be in different towns within the Province of Florence, and showing to the public important art works usually stored in the Uffizi Gallery’s deposits. [...]

The Life Beyond Tourism Forum is happy to announce that the  2007 proceedings of the International ConferenceValues and Criteria in Heritage Preservation held with the co-operation of ICOMOS and ICCROM in Florence, March 1.4 2007. Below, we quote the foreword to the International Conference by Mounir Bouchenaki -Director General ICCROM, Andrzej Tomaszewski – President ICOMOS [...]

The Life Beyond Tourism Forum is happy to announce that the  2008 proceedings of the International Conference of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for the Theory and the Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration (23-27 April 2008, Vienna, Austria) are now available! The publication has been edited by Michael S. Falser, Wilfried Lipp, and Andrzej Tomaszewski [...]