Todo el mundo conoce el Palacio Pitti, todo el mundo sabe asociar a ese nombre ese particular edificio.. Pero ¿dónde está el blasón? ¿Quizás quieren decirme que los Pitti, una de las familias más nobles y potentes de Florencia, no tenía su propio símbolo? De hecho no hay ningún símbolo read more
Parece que hay una cabeza de bovino en el lado de la Catedral que mira a Vía Ricasoli. Dos historias se esconden detrás de este “misterio”, una más probable, el otra más legendaria y “picante”. Empezamos por la historia más verosímil. Según se dice, la cabeza es la de una read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Rub the Nose of the “Porcellino” in the Loggia del Mercato Nuovo The “Porcellino” is one of Florence’s icons; it’s both amulet and tradition. You can find copies of “Il Porcellino” in Aix-en-Provence, France, in read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. One of Michelangelo’s least known inventions is the polyhedron, which shows the link Michelangelo had with Leonardo da Vinci. It is an object made of two hemispheres faceted in 60 small triangles, and it was read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. “The most beautiful Roman vestige is undoubtedly the Pantheon. This temple has suffered so little, it appears to us, as read more
Weather prediction has always been a problem. But many believe that popular wisdom or lore is every bit as accurate as other sources, for example: “Rosso di sera bel tempo si spera….” Or “Red sky at night, good weather hopefully…” The Florentines, whose tradition of popular sayings is renowned for read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Should you be in Florence between April and May you shouldn’t miss out on the spectacular display of hundreds of Irises in a riot of colors inside the Iris Garden at Piazzale Michelangelo. Founded in read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The XV century’s mathematician and cartographer Paolo Toscanelli made a 4-centimeter-wide hole on the cupola of the Cathedral, through which he could observe the sun. The small hole channeled the beams of the sun that read more
La cola es inmensa delante de la Academia, incluso bajo el sol del verano, en el calor más agobiante, teniendo también en cuenta el clima “tropical” de la Academia. Todo el mundo esperando ardientemente ver al David de Miguel Ángel. Símbolo de belleza juvenil y de fuerza, modelo de la read more
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Carrara marble is world famous, mention the name and immediately one thinks of Michelangelo’s Il David or Pietà; but not everyone realizes that just outside of Florence is a small cave, which might not be read more