Here is the Chianti Classico Card, the tool to guide tourists in their discovery of one of the essential elements of the history and culture of the Gallo Nero area: Chianti Classico wine and its [...]
The festa della Rificolona is celebrated only once a year, but it’s loved by Florentine people and tourists of all ages for its magical atmosphere. The highlight of this festival takes place on the [...]
Vetrina Toscana is a twenty-year regional Web project conceived to promote the richness of food and wine in Tuscany. 1000 restaurants and about 320 shops belong to Vetrina Toscana, all of them [...]
“ Florence RockinArt” is a web-app created to deepen the knowledge on the natural and artificial stone materials of which the monuments of Florence are made up. The web-app, in addition to brief [...]
Every year, since 1926, on the last Sunday of September, in the wonderful setting of Piazza Buondelmonti in Impruneta, the fruit of the vine gets celebrated with a spectacular parade of allegorical [...]
In the Middle Ages, Florence was well known as “the towered city”, because of the large number of tower houses which defined its skyline: in the 13th century, they were about 160, up to 213 ft-high [...]
Strolling around Florence, it is easy to come across numerous commemorative plaques placed on the walls of palaces, churches and tower-houses. Many of these are Dante's plaques, real commemorative [...]
Fiesole still keeps many traces of its ancient past that can be discovered with a pleasant walk. One of the main cities in northern Etruria since the 4th century BC, Fiesole became a Roman colony in [...]
February 18th is the death anniversary of Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, the last heir of her family, who bequeathed the Medici’s extraordinary art collections to the city of Florence. The princess - [...]
Among the many available itineraries in the enchanting Impruneta area, there is a very unique one which leads us to know the small hamlet of San Gersolè, where the teacher Maria Maltoni, famous for [...]
