One last gathering before the summer break: on Thursday, July 23, at 8:00 pm. Although Il Palmerino will remain open throughout the summer with the exhibition dedicated to Elena Salvini Pierallini, this will be our final event before the summer break. We are delighted to welcome back our dear friend Luca Scarlini, who will guide us through a fascinating and little-known chapter of Florence's cultural history. His talk, Dance and Mysticism in Florence Between the Two World War

New York City 2026 Veronika Bromberg, an artist from New York, spent two weeks this summer at Il Palmerino, devoting her time entirely to her art, escaping the daily routine of life back in New York. She hopes to bring back with her across the Atlantic the ability to slow down, live in the moment, and focus on her art. Veronika is an encaustic collage artist. She works with rich pigments that are wax-based, melting them to create a luminous, multi-layered surface. The work sh

Irena Kongsuwan is an expressive drawer and painter from Canada who was in residence at Il Palmerino during the summer of 2026. Her goal for the residency was to reignite her art practice, which had taken a back seat to her full-time job and family life. Her artistic career began thirty years ago, shortly after high school. She went on to earn a Fine Arts degree, specializing in painting and drawing. The technique Irena focuses on is chalk pastel (aka soft pastel) on paper. T

On Thursday, July 9th at 6.30 pm, the duo Cristina Abati and Rilaben will be giving some performances in itinerary, throughout the city of Florence, discovering architecture between liberty and brutalism, as part of the “ESPLORAZIONI” program for the 2026 Florentine Summer Rilaben is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and scenographer originally from Tuscany, who divides his time between Italy and Berlin. His work blends physical theater, live installations

This event, part of the Esplorazioni dell’Estate Fiorentina 2026 program, consists of two parts. At 6 p.m., you’ll have the opportunity to attend and participate in the Workshop, dedicated to people with movment experience, to explore possibilities from language to movement. Later, at 8 p.m., Alessandro Marzotto Levy, dancer, choreographer, programmer, and winner of the DNA Choreographic Notes Award for his piece IRENE, will present extracts from his last performance titled “

Villa La Quiete / the restaured garden “Alii Horti” is an all-female dance performance, directed by students, conceived by Associazione Il Palmerino through a grant from Calliope Arts Foundation, and choreographed by Sophie Robinson (University of Toronto). This performance pays tribute to the women connected to the long history of Villa La Quiete and follows the performance at Villa Pietra. This event is part of a larger three-year initiative ‘The Garden Project’ and include