WEBOLUTION!

The guide for your leisure time in Tuscany from the magazine Toscana Tascabile

Theatre, music, art exhibitions, markets, fairs and guided tours: the Toscana Events app offers FREE a broad panorama of the most varied initiatives, indicating place, date, time, website and phone number. A complete guide, rich in updated contents, to help you discover the beauties of Tuscany from the programmes of the numerous theatres to exhibitions in historic museums, the ‘coolest’ concerts and the traditional dishes on offer at the country fairs.

MUSIC - All the major concerts, festivals and music events, concert and opera seasonsTHEATRE - Complete with the programmes of all the theatres in the region: plays, musicals, ballet and dance, shows in local dialect and kids’ theatre

 

FOOD & TRADITON  - A journey through the flavours of typical produce and ancient craft expertise. Includes traditional events such as palios, historical re-enactments, fairs, festivals and marketsCULTURE - Section devoted to those who want to know about the artistic beauties scattered over the territory and conserved in the Tuscan museums: itineraries, visits and the pick of the scheduled exhibitions

The application allows you to make searches by date, province and category, arranged in the same sections as the paper edition.

Through liaison with the Lexis Language Centre, the application is now available in English too, simply by selecting the language on your iPhone.

Look for events around you with the "Near Me" keyMake your way to the event easily by using the maps and itinerariesFollow the links to the websites of the events, and contact the organisersSave must-see events in the calendar of your iPhone using the memo optionGet in touch with the editorial office to make suggestions or notify new events

 

Via Mariano Pallottini, Good Things From Italy

As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.

 

They range from the serious to the fanciful, from the exciting to the petrifying.

And to get a gauge on how likely they are to happen, we asked the special bets department at British betting firm Ladbrokes to give us their odds on each prediction coming true.

 

[View more at the link]

 

Via Lauren Moss