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With the title Cene Galeotte has been organized for several years during the winter months, from autumn to next spring, once a month a dinner inside the prison of Volterra. Dinner is prepared by chefs from all over Italy, helped by prisoners. Dinner is then served by prisoners in … [Read more...]
Cantine Aperte 2012, the appointment for this year is on Sunday, 27th May 2012. By now are passed 20 years from the first appointment on and this year there are over 800 wine producers all over Italy that are opening their wine cellars for visitors. It is a great occasion to get to … [Read more...]
As a wheelchair user one should suppose that today a holiday without barriers is part of normal life. Unfortunately it is not. Even though in the last years the situation has been improving, there are still just a too view beaches, accommodations, restaurants and services that are … [Read more...]
The historic Spa resort "Antica Querciolaia" at Rapolano Terme near Siena in Tuscany, the Senese epic of Giuseppe Garibaldi is enriched by a new discovery. Back to the light, inside of the spa, the tub where, in August 1867, Giuseppe Garibaldi took care of the injuries he siffered … [Read more...]
Klaus Stern, the author of this video has used more than 50,000 frames to make this stunning documentary of the landscape in Tuscany. The timelapse technique consists in shooting photos in prefixed intervals, assembling them together gives the movement effect. The video was made … [Read more...]
When we decided to go to Tuscany, we didn't know at all how the wind would be like. We had been in Corsica before, and there had been nearly no possibility to fly a kite... And, as a matter of fact, we have been lucky enough to take pictures of Pisa, San Gimignano, and Monteriggioni. … [Read more...]
The Province of Arezzo is a province quite different from all the other provinces in Tuscany. One reason is certainly its geogrphical position towards north-east, between the Casentino, the Val di Chiana and the Valtiberina, far, nearly isolated from the other provinces, on the border … [Read more...]
The Province of Pistoia is situated between the Province of Lucca west, the Province of Prato east and the Province of Florence south. Pistoia, the capital of the Province was founded by the Romans in the 2nd century under the name of Pistorium. In the 12th century the town became … [Read more...]
The river Arno splits Florence, the capital of Tuscany into two parts. The gentle Florentine hills are bordering north with the descendants Appenines, east with the Pratomagno area and towards south with the Chianti mountains. Today Florence has about 450,000 inhabitants that mainly … [Read more...]
The Chianti wine in the typical bottle, the so called fiasco and with the logo on which is doninating il gallo nero, the black cock, have been for years the symbols that represent Tuscany in the whole world. The origins of the Chianti Wine are already in the Etruscan times. In the … [Read more...]
Easter 2013 takes place during the last weekend of March, that is on 31 March (Easter Sunday) and 1st April (Easter Monday). … [Read More...]
With the title Cene Galeotte has been organized for several years during the winter months, from autumn to next spring, once … [Read More...]
The Christmas Holidays are just finished and now is already starting the run for the final preparations of the next edition … [Read More...]
Right after New Year's Eve is already waiting the next Italian holiday: La Befana. On 6 January, the Epiphany, colloquially … [Read More...]
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