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August 9, 2012
For all those coming to Tuscany next week, you probably already know that August 15 is a national holiday. While many places will be closed (don’t worry, most restaurants will be open), there are still lots of options for what to do on that day… particularly if you are in a Tuscany city such as…
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”,…
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…
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…
June 22, 2012
On June 17 the grand opening of a new agriturismo occurred near Serravalle Pistoiese in Tuscany. The fact is newsworthy because the farmhouse is the site of a very special social project where 12 homeless will have the opportunity over the next 12 months to work and pick up the necessary skills as well as…
June 14, 2012
In less than a month, the next section of the new rooms of the Uffizi Gllery will open to offer its visitors a space dedicated to the painters of the sixteenth century, especially to Tuscan masters such as Raffaello, Bronzino and Andrea del Sarto. The rooms, ten in all, are on the main floor of…
May 3, 2012
For the first time after 25 years, 17 masterpieces of tapestries chosen among 8 collections have returned to their place of origin for an exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery. In 1987, the Uffizi lost a part of its most important collections due to problems with the conservation of the tapestries: the light, dust and tensile…
April 5, 2012
The “Scoppio del Carro” celebration with a few changes this year This Easter Sunday in Florence the centuries old tradition of the “Scoppio del Carro” will take place with a few changes from past years, changes just announced a few days ago. The main change concerns the lighting of the “sacred fire” which will be…
March 21, 2012
This spring a very special collaboration sprung up between the Tuscany wine estate Villa Dianella Fuccini near Vinci and the Polimoda fashion school in Florence – a contest open to second year students in the Marketing Management, Marketing Communication and Masters in Fashion Communication programs to design the new label for the estate’s rosé wine,…
March 15, 2012
The last several days have seen the media and the population focusing their attention to the developments concerning the hunt for the lost mural La battaglia di Anghiari or Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The work done by Maurizio Seracini, an Italian engineer, and…
