Month: December 2013

New Year’s Eve in Tuscany: Free Events Around the Region

December 30, 2013

Are you ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve? A few more hours and we will say goodbye to 2013! If you are in Tuscany, here are some useful tips for spending this New Year’s Eve in some of the most fascinating cities of the region: In Florence We dedicated an entire article to New Year’s…

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Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Florence

December 27, 2013

For several years now, New Year’s Eve celebration in Florence can be spent outside in one of the many beautiful piazzas of the center enjoying the many great free concerts in the historical center of the city. The events start on December 31, in late evening, in 6 different squares, five in the city of…

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A very Tuscan Christmas

December 18, 2013

Here we are, the most magic period of the year is right behind the door, and all of us are anxiously waiting for Christmas for enjoying its joy, music, colours and why not, food specialities! Christmas in Tuscany is rich in events and dates that suit everybody’s fancy, so we’re going to give you some…

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The Lactating Madonna by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

December 6, 2013

For the holiday season this year, the Crypt under the Duomo in Siena hosts one of the most important masterpieces of European Medieval art, Ambrogio Lorenzetti‘s Lactating Madonna. The painting is generally housed in the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art at the Oratory of San Bernardino which is closed during the winter, so the masterpiece…

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Gold is Rediscovered on the Baptistery’s Northern Doors

December 5, 2013

Florence’s Baptistery’s Northern Doors are currently under restoration. Last March, as we reported here, the doors were taken off and transported to the laboratories of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure to initiate the restoration process. While many stand and admire the Baptistery’s golden Eastern Door, known as the Door to Paradise, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, not…

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Christmas Markets in Lucca and province

December 4, 2013

Christmas is knocking at our door and there will be no street, house or shop that isn’t already dressing up with the season’s decorations and lights, bringing an irresistible and overwhelming joy everywhere. Christmas has always stood for holidays, traveling, taking part in family traditions and events, organizing dinners with family and friends and going…

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