This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. A cemetery dating to the late Roman Age (V-VI century AD) resurfaced below the Uffizi Gallery, during the excavation work (2014) under the Magliabechiana Library. Workers found nearly sixty skeletons of people who died during read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The city of Florence satisfies many curiosities, but it also holds many mysteries that we have not been able to unravel yet. The Basilica of San Lorenzo is a church that was very dear to read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. With the substantial increase in population at the end of 1800s and the destruction of the Old Market to make way for the grand Piazza Repubblica, Florence needed new markets in addition to the small read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The painting “Madonna of the Roses”, by Titian, is so delicate that it had to be put in horizontal position to prevent it from being damaged. This is the reason why this painting is less read more
Diez años después de la inundación, en 1975, trás los trabajos de restauración de la Capilla de los Médici, se descubrió un sótano de 7 metros por 2 por debajo de la Sacristía Nueva (Sagrestia Nuova). En este sótano, la humedad causada por la inundación hizo reaparecer unos dibujos al read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Livorno’s thriving port was created virtually from nothing; at the end of the 16th century the Medici government granted them the status of “freet port” promoting business and giving the city a giant economic boost. read more
Muchos de los pueblos en las colinas de la Toscana fueron divididos en “contradas” o barrios que compiten entre sí en los juegos anuales ciudadanos – el más conocido es el “Palio” de Siena, famoso en todo el mundo. Siena está dividida en 17 Contradas: Aquila (águila), Bruco (oruga), Chiocciola read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Recently, underground rooms and corridors were discovered below the Basilica of San Lorenzo. They probably belonged to an ancient city that remained hidden through centuries. On the walls, there are drawings and maps of all read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. La Certosa is an impressive castle complex perched on the peak of Monte Acuto (now called Monte Santo) just outside of Galluzzo, a small town on the outskirts of Florence. A working monastery, the walled read more
La Loggia dei Lanzi alberga una famosa estatua de bronce que representa Perseo que tiene la cabeza de Medusa en una mano y la espada que utilizó para decapitarla en la otra. La parte más interesante, y quizás menos conocida, de la estatua es que en la parte de atrás read more