Florence and Metropolitan area: events June 2022
Here is a rundown of events scheduled for June 2022 in Florence and the surrounding area. The announcements are taken from Feel Florence, the official tourism site of the Municipality of Florence and the metropolitan city area.
On 24th June, San Giovanni, Florence is celebrating with all the traditional events, including the final of the Florentine Historic Football, preceded by the two semi-finals in Santa Croce on 10th and 11th. But with the arrival of June the Florentine Summer and Fiesolane Summer seasons open, two important events in the hottest months of the metropolitan area.
Exhibitions – Palazzo Vecchio is hosting, from 30th June, the Fourth State, the big canvas by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, and until 18th September, the cast of Antonio Canova “The Peace of Kiev”. Until 31st July at Palazzo Strozzi the genius of Donatello is celebrated with the exhibition “Donatello, The Renaissance”.
At the Opera del Duomo Museum until 1st August, the original of the Pietà Bandini and the casts of the Pietà Vaticana and of the Pietà Rondanini, displayed together for the first time. At the Palazzo Medici Riccardi until 13th September, the exhibition “Oscar Ghiglia. The years of the 1900s” dedicated to the great painter of the last century. At Reggello until 23rd October inside the Museum Masaccio d’Arte Sacra in Cascia, an exhibition will be set up to celebrate 600 years of the San Giovenale Triptych.
Music – From 16th to 19th June Florence Rocks is back. On the stage of the Visarno Arena, Green Day, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica will be performing.
