The name San Salvi evokes more than just the district named after the ancient religious complex, in most Florentines’ minds. Indeed, the large green area in Quartiere 2 is where Florence’s Asylum...
Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in 1511 and died in Florence in 1574, exactly 450 years ago. Between these two dates, the activity of such an important personality for the history of art, the city...
A typical street food in Florence? lampredotto rolls. I t can be bought from the trippai (literally tripe sellers), stalls permanently spread in various parts of the city that serve and prepare bovine...
Michelangelo's David, the best known and most admired man in Florence The colossal statue, sculpted by a young Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1504, depicts David preparing to strike Goliath with a...
“From the Alps to the Pyramids… ”, thus Alessandro Manzoni describes the lightning-quick conquests of Napoleon I in continental Europe in his poem “The Fifth of May” . The kingdoms he conquered were...
The Italian term "enogastronomia" describes the link that develops in an area between the community and its local food and wine products. More and more people want to experience and taste this...
Florence offers many opportunities to hearing-impaired people concerning museum visits. Videoguides, interactive games and tours in sign languages: a lot of ways to approach art from a different point...
The Ring of the Renaissance (in Italian Anello del Rinascimento) is an amazing route to be taken on foot or by bicycle, a unique historical-artistic itinerary designed to unite the treasures of...
Florence, the city of art and the Renaissance. But how is this creativity expressed today? With this itinerary, we would like to take you on a discovery of some of the contemporary and avant-garde...
The beginning of the modern age sees the human being as the protagonist of his own time and the architect of his own destiny. Humanistic philological studies restore to classical culture the value and...
