Father Giuseppe Pagano is furious. The 65-year-old Augustinian friar and his three fellow monks, who have dedicated their lives to silent prayer inside Florence’s Santo Spirito monastery, are ...

In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a ... Other questions plagued the cathedral overseers. Their building plans eschewed the flying buttresses and pointed arches of the ...

Would you like to visit Florence? Discover some articles to help you plan out your trip: This impressive cathedral, whose construction began in the 13 th century and was completed in 1436 ...

So Pagano has enlisted the support of “Salviamo Firenze” or “Save Florence,” a group set up to protect the city from overtourism, which has vowed to join the monks in protest, with plans ...