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Curious Florence: Palazzo dei Cartelloni

In via Sant'Antonino 11 in Florence, there is a building that immediately catches the eye of passers-by as it features decidedly unusual decorative elements. It is Palazzo Viviani, otherwise known as the "Palazzo dei cartelloni” (Billboards Palace), due to the enormous epigraphs with which the facade is decorated. Among these...

Spiagge Bianche: the dark side of the Caribbean of Tuscany

Spiagge Bianche are a stretch of about five kilometers of white sand bathed by beautiful clear waters, in the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo in Tuscany, between Rosignano Solvay and Vada. A postcard landscape that attracts many people from all over Tuscany, but also tourists who have heard of this perfectly...

Shooting stars and the night of San Lorenzo

The shooting stars visible to the naked eye on the night of San Lorenzo are called Perseids, as they come from the constellation of Perseus. They form a meteor shower that the Earth passes through in the summer, during its orbit around the sun. Visible from the end of July...

The Gardens of Florence - Stibbert Park

At the moment of his death, English entrepreneur and collector, Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906) left to the municipality of Florence his villa containg a spectacular collection of more than 50,000 objects: armors, weapons, porcelains, furniture, jewelry, paintings, sculptures and much more. This property included also a beautiful park with sculptures, little...

Yan Pei-Ming. Painting Histories in Florence

Another major monographic exhibition is underway at Palazzo Strozzi until 3 September 2023, and this time it brings us in contact with over thirty works by Chinese artist, Yan Pei-Ming: Yan Pei-Ming. Painting Histories.Born and raised in Shanghai, he emigrated to France at the age of 20, enrolling at the...

Recipes of the tradition: Florentine Zuccotto

Florentine zuccotto is a semifreddo liqueur dessert invented in the mid-sixteenth century by Bernardo Buontalenti, the same Buontalenti to whom we also owe the invention gelato. It is also called Caterina de' Medici’s Helmet, since it seems that originally, to make this dessert, the helmets worn by the infantry at...

“The return of Joseph, the prince of dreams” at the Salone dei Duecento

The Medici tapestries from the cycle “The return of Joseph, the prince of dreams” are back in the Salone dei Duecento, exhibited in rotation in five exhibition cycles. The twenty tapestries in the series are displayed, four at a time, according to their original location in the hall of Palazzo...

As the saying goes: San Giovanni non vuole inganni!

Have you ever heard a Florentine say: “San Giovanni non vuole inganni" (Saint John doesn't allow deceit)? This saying is often used in situations where someone has tried to trick somebody else and the other person found out, or they don't believe the lie told. Where does this saying come from?...

The pyramid of the Cascine Park

While taking a stroll at the Cascine Park, a very peculiar structure might have caught your eye. We are talking about the pyramid that can be found along the tree-lined avenu, looking rather out of place in the Tuscan capital.What on earth is a pyramid doing in Florence? Well, it...

Florence Fashion city: Pitti Immagine

In addition to being a city of art, Florence is also a city of fashion, as evidenced by the presence of numerous museums dedicated to fashion and costume, such as the Costume Gallery at Palazzo Pitti, the Roberto Capucci Foundation Museum at Villa Bardini, the Ferragamo and the Gucci Museum,...

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