Chini Museum, Liberty art at Villa Pecori Giraldi, Borgo San Lorenzo in Mugello Tuscany

    Villa Pecori Giraldi at Borgo San Lorenzo, the main center of the Mugello, is the seat of the Museo Chini, hosted at the beautiful villa Pecori Giraldi. Galileo, Tito, Chino have been some of the most important artists of the Liberty period in Italy.  The Chini family became famous because of their ceramics’ production.

Taste 9th edition, March 2014, from 8th to 10th, Florence Stazione Leopolda

The ninth edition of Taste, this year, will be held from the 8th to the 10th of March. As usual the exhibition dedicated to the food excellences and food lifestyle will be hosted at Stazione Leopolda in Florence. Look at also to the rich program of the FuoridiTaste events. Taste-FuoriDiTaste-2014-program-calendar-florence Entry hours: Suturday 8 and Sunday 9

RistoBottega Antica Macelleria Falorni in Florence

The Antica Macelleria Falorni has recently opened in Florence. The RistoBottega (this is the way, the Falorni family entitled their format of restaurant and shop) is located in Palmieri street, at 35, to the corner with piazza San Pier Maggiore, in the medieval tower of the Donati, between Santa Croce and the Piazza della Signoria.

Tuscany food: celiac friendly Restaurants, Trattorie, Pizzerie, etc.

Tuscany is a place where  the celiacs can travel with pleasure for their eyes and for their taste. The number of restaurants and trattorie offering gluten_free dedicated menu is growing constantly, and anyway, also where there is not any specific menu, the restaurants’ managers, waiters and chefs, are now aware about this kind of needs,

The chocolate valley – Andrea Slitti and Roberto Catinari, maitre chocolatier in the Pistoia province

The Chocolate valley. This is the appellative given to the Pistoia district, due to the born of many great quality artisanal chocolate laboratories born there in the last 30 years. Roberto Cainari in Agliana, before and later Andrea Slitti in Monsummano Terme, are the two undisputed champions. They are known all over the world, thanks

Pictorial cycle of Filippo Lippi – Cappella Maggiore, Cathedral of Prato – Tuscany

The pictorial #cycle of Filippo Lippi occupies the #Cappella_Maggiore of the #Cathedral_of_Prato. It is one of the masterpieces of the #renaissance period, and it covers a a surface of 400 m2 (4,300 sq ft). It was painted, in the period from 1452 and 1465,  by Fra Filippo Lippi and his assistants, and between them, there was also #Fra_Diamante. At

Fashion in Florence, Tuscany – Pitti Uomo & more ….

It is not by chance if Florence is now one of the fashion capital of the world. Indeed, the Italian fashion was born in Florence on the  12 of February 1951, when Giovanni Battista Giorgini organised  at Villa Torrigiani, in via de’ Serragli in Florence, a presentation to five american buyers the creations of some important

Antica Macelleria Falorni – Take away – Greve in Chianti – Florence – Tuscany

In the beautiful square of Greve Chianti, the Antica Macelleria Falorni, one of the must of the gastronomy in Tuscany and a real destination for local and foreign people, has became not only a place, where to buy typical salami, but also  to taste mixed board with salami and cheese, panini made with the typical

Palazzo Pretorio, restaurant, pizzeria – Giovanni Santarpia – San Donato in Poggio – Chianti – Tuscany

Palazzo Pretorio Restaurant and pizzeria is located in a seventeen century building in San Donato in Poggio, a nice #medieval village, in the Chianti region, between #Florence and #Siena. The reason why we have decided to suggest it, it’s because of the faboulous pizza we have eaten here. For sure, one of the best pizza

14 Medici’s villas became part of the Unesco World Heritage

Recently 14 Medici’s villas have been included into the Unesco world heritage list. Same of these villas are worldwide well-known, some others are also amazing monuments, but not as well known as the first ones, ones, and some others need to be saved and to be valued.  Some of these villas are in and around