Autumn is the time for chestnuts, and Tuscan cuisine is full
of dishes based on this highly nutritious ingredient, once an important source
of sustenance for the poorest populations and especially for those who lived in
the countryside.
Among the traditional
Tuscan recipes that use chestnuts, the one best known...
The series of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art at Palazzo Strozzi continues,
this time it is the turn of the very famous Jeff Koons, who had already been in Florence in 2015 with the much
discussed golden sculpture Pluto and
Proserpina, displayed in front of Palazzo Vecchio.
Jeff Koons. Shine...
For those interested in
architecture, Sorgane is a district
of Florence definitely worth visiting. In 1957
it was decided to build here a satellite city of public housing, a very
ambitious project. Initially designed for 12,000 inhabitants, the project is
entrusted to a group of young architects coordinated by Giovanni...
Cada ciudad tiene
lugares dedicados al Street Art y tolerados por las autoridades. En Florencia,
uno de los más importantes es el paso subterráneo bajo el ferrocarril Florencia
- Roma, que conecta el centro con el distrito de Le Cure. Una especie de museo,
siempre en transformación, digno de ver...
The fish market was once located
in today's Lungarno degli Archibugieri, then Piazza del Pesce, right next to Ponte Vecchio. In 1565, on the occasion of the marriage between the son of Grand Duke
Cosimo I, Francesco, and the Archduchess of Austria Giovanna of Austria, the
famous Vasari Corridor was...
One of the most
well-hidden churches in all of Florence is probably Santo Stefano al Ponte.
However, the name suggests where we can find it: in the small Piazza Santo Stefano,
near Ponte Vecchio.
Founded before 1116, the
year in which the first documentations mention it, the church of Santo...
Estamos en Porta Romana, al sur de Florencia,
donde aún se mantienen en pie las murallas del siglo XIV sobrevivientes a la
reestructuración urbanistica de Giuseppe Poggi en 1865. Inmediatamente después
de la puerta monumental, se abre una pequeña plaza, Piazza della Calza. El nombre deriva de la iglesia y...
This time it is difficult
to guess the meaning of this work. Against a starry sky and galactic clouds,
the composition seems to develop from right to left with three figures. The
first is an alien, clearly the owner of the flying saucer from which a strange
character with big...
How we dress, how we style our hair, how we decorate our body, is
nowadays a personal choice, but in the past, there were rules to follow
and it was not possible to appear in public dressed in improperly.
Moreover, for the common people dressing nicely was not a necessity,...
Another work from the Cure underpass - one of the main Florentine galleries of creative
"vandalization" - caught our attention: signed by Skino, its title is
"Alien flower and mad dog".
The flower seems to influence
the dog with its waves of “alien energy, making him crazy, almost as if...
