Ideas for spending New Year’s Eve 2024 in Tuscany

What are your plans for New Year’s Eve?

Have you ever thought of spending New Year’s Eve in Italy, maybe in the beautiful Tuscany? 

Italy offers so many ideas and opportunities to celebrate with family and friends: you can experience a lot of free events and concerts, or you can travel to a farmhouse for a weekend of full relaxation and a typical New Year’s Eve dinner.

You can find the main initiatives for New Year’s Eve 2024 here! But we would like to start with some funny anecdotes about the Italian traditions for this special day.

How Italians celebrate New Year’s Eve: some funny traditions

Do you know all the funny (and maybe a little weird) Italian traditions for New Year’s Eve?

• The open window: a lot of people open the window of a dark room before midnight. This would allow evil spirits and negative energies to be driven out, and the air to be purified.

• Red underwear: red has always been associated with power, health, and fertility, and it’s considered a kind of luck charm. That’s why Italians always wear something red during the New Year’s Eve (usually, the underwear).

• Lentils and pomegranate: lentils symbolize money because of their shape, and pomegranate is a symbol of longevity, fertility, and wealth. They cannot be missed during a typical Italian New Year’s Eve dinner!!

• Throwing away old objects: this is a typical custom of the smallest towns where people usually throw away or break old things to say goodbye to the past and embrace the future. So be careful… and stay away from the windows!

New Year’s Eve 2024 in Italy: the most beautiful events

If you want to spend all night out, you must know that a lot of Italian cities will host many events and free concerts with the most beloved artists of the country. In addition, the Christmas and festive atmosphere welcome people ready to celebrate this magical night.

Turin will host a big concert with three special guests: Malika Ayane, Rose Villain, and Morcheeba.

The voice of Biagio Antonacci will enchant Palermo.

There will also be a big concert in Naples dedicated to the great Pino Daniele, with Loredana Bertè, James Senese, Sal Da Vinci, Massimiliano Gallo, Raiz, Gigi and Ros, Gabriele Esposito, Veronica Simioli, Mavi, i Ditelo Voi, and Gigi Soriani.

And another great event will take place in Cagliari with the Nonis Swing Quartet.

New Year’s Eve 2024 in Tuscany: concerts in Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca

Tuscany is a fabulous destination for those who wish to indulge in a New Year’s Eve trip. Every year the main cities organize lots of events, parties, and concerts to wait for midnight and toast to the new year.

Florence is certainly a perfect idea!
You can enjoy the bigger concert in Piazza della Signoria with Mr Rain, Giovanni Caccamo and The Bowland, but you can find a lot of other squares involved in the New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Piazza Santissima Annunziata will host a jazz concert by Nino Buonocore and Max Ionata.
Piazza San Giovanni will host a gospel concert by The Pilgrims and Lara Johnson & the Black Voices.
Piazza Santa Croce will host the National Symphony Orchestra “RadioTV Moldova” and the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina.
Last but not least, you can enjoy a unique concert by Edoardo Bennato in Scandicci.

Siena can be another great destination!
This year all the celebrations will be spread throughout the city.
Among the various events, Piazza del Campo will host electronic, symphonic and opera music.
Piazza Chigi Saracini will feature swing, folk, and Latin music.
Piazza Matteotti will feature 1970s dance music, while Piazza San Giovanni will host a gospel choir.
Piazza San Francesco and Piazza Tolomei will feature pop music, and you can dance to the notes of 1950s rock’n’roll in Piazza Provenzano.

What about Pisa and its Leaning Tower? The main squares of the old town come alive with concerts and musical events every year on New Year’s Eve. This year, the biggest concert will be in Piazza dei Cavalieri with the iconic Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese.

At the same time, Lucca will host a great free concert in Piazza Santa Maria: the Radio Italia Party, where you can dance to all the greatest Italian hits. Lucca also hides a little curiosity. People celebrate a “double” New Year’s Eve here: the first one is celebrated with the “official” midnight; the second one takes place eighteen minutes and one second after. That’s because the time in Lucca is calculated by following the transit of the sun on the historic sundial located on the famous Torre delle Ore in the old town.

Let’s book the perfect New Year’s Eve in Tuscany and enjoy the Christmas spirit that characterizes this charming region every year. Antica Bifore Guest House is waiting for you in the heart of Lucca’s old town: the hotel is an ideal starting point to discover the beauty of the city and all the surrounding area.