What's on: 2025

Join us to celebrate the closing of Flavia Arlotta; Inner Gardens. From 5pm to 7pm, there will be a musical tribute, with singer Giedre Kisieliute and piano accompaniment from Xu Yifei . Readings from her letters, correspondence, and dairies will take place. Monica Francini and Douglas MacRae Brown will be doing the readings.   Reservations required, to do so please email associazione@palmerino.it

Join us on the 10 th  of December for a conference on colonial objects, collections and museums through stories and rethinking's of critics. The conference will be given by Beatrice Falcucci, a current fellow at the Center for the Study of Cultural Memory (London). Her works focuses on Italian colonial culture, European colonial museology, and post-colonial legacies. Falcucci will be introduced by Università degli Studi di Firenze professor Giovanni Tarantino. With the conver

At 5.30 pm on November 26, 2025, join us at Il Palmerino Cultural Association, in the Colonica di Villa Il Palmerino, for a lecture by US writer and professor Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, entitled: The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander (1837 - 1917) , after her recently published book by the same name. Francesca Alexander and her parents moved from Boston to Florence in 1853 and became part of the city's thriving international community. She was a largely self-taught artist,

Professor and Historian Giulia Calvi recounts the history of clothing, bodies, and imagery all around the world. Calvi stresses that clothing can exemplify geographical origin, gender, social status, ethnicity, age, profession and religious affiliation. As a former history professor at the University of Siena and the former chair-holder of Gender History in the Department of History and Civilization at the EUI, Calvi is well versed in the intertwinedness of clothing, history,

At 5.30 pm on November 26, 2025, join us at Il Palmerino Cultural Association, in the Colonica di Villa Il Palmerino, for a lecture by US writer and professor Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, entitled: The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander (1837 - 1917) , after her recently published book by the same name. Francesca Alexander and her parents moved from Boston to Florence in 1853 and became part of the city's thriving international community. She was a largely self-taught artist,

Join us for a conversation between a historian on Italian aristocratic families,  Domenico Savini and art historian, Silvio Balloni about the close friendship of painter Giovanni Fattori and the Corsini family.  Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908) was an Italian painter. He was a leader of the Macchiaioli movement, a Tuscan art movement similar to impressionism. Fattori had a close relationship with the Corsini family, as they often funded his paintings and invited him to stay on th