This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. CO.RA. is the acronym for Commissione Radio. Radio CO.RA. was an illegal radio created by the English forces and used by the Florentine Resistenza between January and June 1944. The main purpose of Radio CO.RA. read more
Se dice que a pesar de su apodo, Lorenzo de’ Médici no era verdaderamente guapo; sin embargo, era tan animado y carismático que se le llamaba “el Magnífico”. Al hablar, su cara era tan expresiva que su compañía era irresistible. Lorenzo era toscano y como tal era incline a las read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The so-called buchette del vino were little windows built outside the main entrance of the old Renaissance palaces in the historic city center, just outside from where the indoor cellars were. These windows are made read more
Un hecho divertido sobre el periodo del Renacimiento, transmitido a través de los siglos, cuenta la amistad entre Leonardo da Vinci y Sandro Botticelli. Los dos gestionaron una taberna por un breve periodo de tiempo. Leonardo y Botticelli se conocieron alrededor de 1470, ambos eran alumnos del maestro Verrocchio, un read more
Gino Bartali (18 de julio de 1914 – 5 de mayo de 2000) apodado “Ginettaccio” (Gino malo) por su carácter algo seco y reservado, era un inolvidable campeón de ciclismo: ganó tres veces el Giro de Italia y dos veces el Tour de Francia. Su nombre es indisolublemente enlazado a read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Already during the XIV century, Florence was famous for the production of leather, from tanning to selling. Therefore, leather craftsmanship has very ancient origins. Around 1282, the Arte dei Cuoiai o Galigai (curriers and tanners read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. What do Florence, Palermo and the English throne have in common? Let’s go back in time to the Medici era to discover this little known curiosity, for which we have the written chronicles of Giorgio read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. In order to get to know deep inside the grumpy and polemic Florentines, we must know something about Fiorentina, the city soccer club. Florentines have always argued about everything, but there is only one thing read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. “The double line of dark cypress, and the intricate underbrush of rosemary, lavender and Chinese roses, the shimmering meadow of spring daffodils and wild orchids, and here and there the busy buzz of the bees, read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Let us now talk about the first D.O.C. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata, controlled designation of origin in English) ever. It all dates back to September, 24 1716, when the Gran Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III read more