The
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
has become one of the most famous churches in the world, especially thanks to
the amazing dome of which Filippo Brunelleschi endowed it with.
Not
everyone knows, however, that the symbolic building of Florence has a very
troubled history, which lasted almost 600...
Visiting Florence in August has its
downsides. Around the second week of the month, you will find yourselves
walking the almost deserted city streets looking for a bar, restaurant or
grocery shop that does not display the sign "CHIUSO PER FERIE" (closed for the holidays).
That’s because most Florentines -...
August 3, 1944, Florence is
still occupied by the Nazis. It’s been almost a year, the Allies are
expected to send help any day now, and rumor has it that, knowing this, the Germans
want to destroy the Florentine bridges to cut off access routes.
On
July 30, everyone who...
A 30 minutes drive from Florence,
there is a truly spectacular place, that looks like it came out of a fairy
tale: the Sammezzano Castle.
Sammezzano Castle is the most important example of Orientalist
architecture in Italy and is located in the municipality of Reggello in the
province of Florence....
Forte Belvedere opens its spaces to Rä
di Martino, a young contemporary artist, and to her solo exhibition
entitled Play It Again, a
project of Museo Novecento curated
by Sergio Risaliti.
Through a selection of
works from 2014 to today, that includes installations, video art and
photographs, Play it again...
Casa Martelli is one
of those places that you'll visit and then ask yourself: "Why have I not
been here sooner"?
This unique museum was created by one of the most influential families of
Florence - the Martelli, bankers
that rapidly rose to power, also thanks to their connection with...
In
via Maggio at n. 26, there is a very
particular building, recognizable by its beautiful facade entirely decorated with grotesques.
First documented architectural work of Bernardo
Buontalenti, the palace was commissioned
by Francesco I de’ Medici and built, between 1570 and 1574, upon an old
fifteenth-century building.
Francesco
I,...
Florence
is a place full of history and stories, and sometimes, without even realizing
it, we find ourselves walking right upon them.
This might have happened in Piazza della
Signoria, where a large marble
plaque set in the paving of the square, right in front of the fountain of
Neptune,...
Coffee is consumed in large
quantities all over the world, but it is a known fact that Italians are
particularly fond of this drink, so much so that they have made its preparation
an art.
Coffee beans arrived in Italy, more
precisely in Venice, from the East around 1570. Initially,...
The
Double
Portrait of the Dukes of Urbino is one of the most famous portraits of
the Renaissance, preserved today in the Uffizi
Gallery.
This
diptych was commissioned in 1465 to
Piero della Francesca, by Federico di Montefeltro, Lord of Urbino.
Represented
in profile, we see the two spouses...
