On October 17 th  2025, a concert featuring the voice of Daniela Di Pasquale and the guitar of Adriano Sebastiani took place at the Country House at Il Palmerino. The event was part of the Festival of Associations of the Florentine Autumn, and featured works from Giuliani, Hall, and Bellini. Current Florence Resident and Italian-American Opera singer, Di Pasquale has performed all over Europe and the United States. Some of her previous roles include Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Vi

For the last three weeks, artist Julia Poletti has dedicated her stay at Il Palmerino to drawing and finding inspiration in the rich...

On 9 October 2025, a meeting moderated by Emanuele Giusti and introduced by Giovanni Tarantino from the University of Florence took place at Il Palmerino. The meeting was part of a series dedicated to our contemporary world, bringing together historians, sociologists, anthropologists and economists to reflect on the present and provide the tools to understand today's challenges, changes and future prospects in a critical and constructive manner.

One of our September artist residents, Barbara came to Palmerino with the goal of capturing the beauty of the Tuscan landscape. Which she...

A special preview of the creative work of the two artists awarded the residency grant. Their projects will culminate in an exhibition at Il Palmerino and the Museum of Sant’Orsola in 2026. The preview was a special behind-the-scenes moment to discover the creative process in an open and welcoming atmosphere with the artists Cyrielle Gulacsy and Silvia Infranco and their curator Morgane Lucquet-Laforgue e Marina Dacci.

Vanessa Nicolson is an author and journalist, and a former art historian. Her most recent book, Angels of Mud, is a multi-generational novel set in London's Italian/Irish neighborhood of Clerkenwell in the aftermath of World War Two and Florence at the time of the 1966 Flood.