On parle de Catherine de Médicis, la reine de France qui emporta avec elle des chefs et pâtissiers florentins pour respirer “l’air de sa maison”. On dit qu’elle était très superstitieuse, si bien que en 1549, pour un banquet, elle fit préparer des aliments et des portions qui étaient divisibles read more
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
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. In the beautifully decorated Loggia of the Galatea in the Villa Farnesina, one particular image stands out. It is a monochromatic drawing of a man’s head, a stark contrast to the brightly colored frescoes and read more
On dit que Laurent, en dépit de son nom, n’était pas exactement beau, mais il avait un esprit si vif et charismatique qu’il est passé à l’histoire avec cet appellation d’homme généreux. On dit que quand il parlait son visage s’animait tant à rendre irrésistible sa compagnie. En tant que read more
Une curieuse fable de la Renaissance, transmise depuis des siècles, raconte de l’amitié entre Léonard de Vinci et Sandro Botticelli et de la brève période pendant laquelle ils ont géré une taverne ensemble. Les deux se rencontrèrent autour de 1470 à l’atelier Florentin du Verrocchio, le sculpteur, peintre, orfèvre, mathématicien read more
Le Coq Noir sur fond or est le symbole historique du vin Chianti Classico. Le symbole n’a pas été choisi au hasard, il a une motivation historique. Cette question remonte au Moyen Âge, quand les tensions entre les républiques de Florence et Sienne étaient énormes. Le Chianti, zone intermédiaire entre 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. In September 2015, Professor Pietro Armienti found, embedded in the façade of Saint Nicola’s Church in Pisa, a message that had been hidden for over 800 years. It is a code embedded in the geometrically 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
This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. “Amici Miei” (“My Friends”, in English) is an Italian cult comedy-drama movie – the first of a trilogy – that was first showed in movie theatres in August 10, 1975. Shot in Florence, the movie read more