Month: July 2012

First time to Tuscany? Top 5 Destinations You Shouldn’t Miss!

July 31, 2012

Tuscany is a land rich in landscapes to discover and splendid cities to savor. In some of them, you might get away with stopping for just a few hours but, in others, we definitely recommend staying longer to more completely enjoy their beauty. If you are planning your first experience in Tuscany, we offer a…

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Special Openings, Guided tour, Free Entry: Summer at the Academy Gallery!

July 27, 2012

The Accademia Gallery is famous all over the world for hosting some of the most important artworks by Michelangelo Buonarroti: the statue of David, the statues of Prisoners and the St.Matthew. Within the gallery you also find many other works of art from the Renaissace, religious works in the Gothic style and the “Gipsoteca Bartolini”,…

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Discovering the Uffizi Gallery!

July 26, 2012

Last week we visited one of the most beautiful museum in the world: the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Since the museum hosts a very important quantity of artworks we decided to take a guide to deepen the history of the museum and to discover something new about Florence. Actually we didn’t want to miss any…

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Aperitivo ad Arte moves to the Bargello Museum

July 19, 2012

You might have heard of the splendid initiative called Aperitivo ad Arte this summer taking place at the Uffizi Gallery on Thursdays in which you can enjoy an exclusive aperitivo or drinks on the panoramic terrace of the Uffizi while visiting the new Blue Rooms dedicated to foreign artists within the museum. The Uffizi and…

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Mercantia, Ready to Enter a Fabulous World?

July 11, 2012

Mercantia, the most important festival dedicated to the street theatre and to art in all its manifestations, returns this year in its 25th edition. The Festival will run from July 11 throughout July 15, 2012 in the splendid medieval village of Certaldo, homeland of the writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. It’s not easy to explain…

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Tourism Tax being implemented across all of Tuscany

July 10, 2012

In July 2011, Florence was the first Tuscan city to implement a tourism tax on all lodgings within the city of Florence. Since then, the rest of the province and towns across the region have been quietly implementing the tax as well. I say quietly because we were recently in San Quirico in Val d’Orcia…

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Discovering Florence For The First Time

Earlier this summer, I went to Florence for 4 nights. I had never been to this part of Italy before and was excited to discover all it had to offer. It was hard to do this in four days but now that I have sampled a taste and will come back for more! I stayed…

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Medieval Festival in Monteriggioni this Weekend!

July 6, 2012

This weekend, the prestigious Medieval Festival celebrated in the charming walled town of Monteriggioni, north of Siena, returns for the first of two weekends of fun for the whole family! This 22nd edition will take place over two weekends, this July 6-8 and next weekend July 13-15, 2012 offering a rich program of shows and…

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Competition has arrived to Italy’s rail system

July 4, 2012

Up to now, if you’re traveling by train in Italy all you had to choose from was Trenitalia, the state rail company that used to belong to the Italian state but whose management was privatized a few years ago. Starting at the end of April, travelers started having a new choice for high speed travel…

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