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The Chianti Sculpture Park is Piero Giadrossi’s dream come true: after visiting a sculpture exhibition in Cape Town’s botanical gardens, he decided to recreate that magical dialog between art and nature in the thirteen hectares of woodland that he had bought in Chianti. Supported by a Sienese artistic committee, he began to invite artists to [...]
Following the first Florence tour itinerary, here is a second suggestion that will get you going in Florence for a day or two. If you feel a little overwhelmed by the city’s amount of things to do and see, this will be a nice suggestion to follow and focus on not-to-be-missed sights. Start in Piazza [...]
Florence in Italy is among the most visited cities in Tuscany. The blunt reason is that there is so much to see and experience at so many levels (artistic, historic, mundane, literary, cultural, religious just to name a few) that anyone has a reason to visit Florence at least once. Visiting Florence is a lifetime [...]
From Cannes Festival to Lucignano, near Arezzo Italy. Lucignano is a beautiful medieval town in Tuscany that Cannes Film Festival brought to celebrity thanks to the film directed by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami: “Certified Copy”. The movie, with Juliette Binoche as the main performer, was filmed in Lucignano and Cortona. Lucignano is in the [...]
The history of wine is on display in Florence with Vinum Nostrum from July 19th, 2010 (tomorrow) until May 15th, 2011 at the Palazzo degli Argenti. The full title of the exhibit is Vinum Nostrum: Wine Art, Science and Myths among Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. Conviviality and drunkenness, door to spirituality and frowned-upon habit. The development [...]
Summer just begun, but many important art exhibitions in Tuscany already opened their doors some time ago. Large cities and small towns host unique, must-see exhibitions from ancient Egypt to contemporary art. Museums all over Tuscany land their spaces for these art events. Florence and Siena are at the top of the list with their [...]
Yes, Italy is not all the same. That time when museums were opened only few hours a day and you found yourself in the frustrating situation of having to forgo that visit after a long trip from home seems over now. It is few years now that Italian museums are much more visitor-friendly. But Tuscany [...]
It may seem impossible, but in Roman and Etruscan times Populonia was one of the largest and most important cities of the Italian peninsula, a city of excesses and richness. It was called Fufluna, name derived from the Etruscan god of wine Fufluns. Today Populonia is a small fraction of the town of Piombino near [...]
On March 26, 2010 opened the exhibit dedicated to the Sienese Renaissance from Jacopo della Quercia to Donatello. The exhibit will close on July 10, 2010, and can be found at the Santa Maria della Scala museum complex. There are 306 works on display, twenty polyptychs have been rebuilt for the occasion, 25 restorations have [...]
The flags of Palio of Siena are the protagonist of the La Città del Si, City of Yes, to celebrate the seven hundred years of Costituto Senese. The exhibit was inaugurated on September 26th 2009 at the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena with the title “The Dream of the Middle Ages”. To create the [...]
